Senior Technical Programme Manager 12m FTC

Why Airbox? You're more likely to love your work when that work has a purpose, when it's meaningful and when it's protecting lives. And, at Airbox Systems, it will. Here's why.

We are driven by passion and great people who share our enthusiasm for trying to make the world a better place, our friendly team includes individuals with backgrounds in military, aviation, and law enforcement. Our experience brings first-hand insight into frontline operations in the air and on the ground to enable cutting-edge concepts for improving the service that we deliver.

At Airbox, our values can be described as behavioral guidance. They are the principles and beliefs that provide a cohesive vision and define who we are as a business. In doing so, they define our organisation internally, and externally with our stakeholders and customers. In essence, they are our "true north" that help us to navigate our organisation through prosperous times as well as uncertain periods. Our company beliefs and values are embodied in our culture. Whilst we celebrate the diversity of the people we work with, there are certain values and attributes all of us share - whatever your background, these are the qualities we are looking for in the people we hire: Commitment, Positive Realism, Ethics, Accountability, Humanity, Quality, and Delight.

What this role is about:

We're looking for an experienced strategic and detail-oriented Senior Technical Project Manager to lead a critical transition bringing a custom software product from a third party in-house to our Product and Tech team. This is a hit the ground running role that will require you to own the project setup the project and execute at speed. You will partner with the CTO, senior stakeholders and Product to define the long-term vision for the product and then help determine how to transition to product (i.e. integrating it into our existing solutions, transition as a separate product or a hybrid of both).

You are someone who understands that a successful transition is about transferring knowledge, ensuring quality, and maintaining service continuity. You will navigate a scale-up environment where requirements can be fluid and stakeholders are senior, requiring you to be both a diplomat and a disciplined executor. You are an excellent communicator, possess a high degree of initiative and can operate with little direction and oversight

What you'll be doing:

• Strategic Transition & Roadmap: Partner with the CTO to evaluate the future of the product and help facilitate the decision-making process for the end solution.
• Strategic Alignment: Work closely with senior stakeholders to clarify and document a clear, actionable vision for the product, translating high-level goals into a structured delivery plan.
• Transition & Delivery Management: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of moving the product from the 3rd party to the internal team, ensuring all product, technical debt and code quality risks are identified.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the critical bridge between the CTO and the wider business to communicate realistic timelines and surface constraints. Work with senior stakeholders as priorities evolve providing clarity on trade-offs and ensuring the transition stays on track.
• 3rd Party Vendor Management: Act as the primary point of contact for the outgoing vendor, ensuring all documentation, architectural knowledge, and access are transferred completely.
• Resourcing & Capacity: Help the team balance the immediate needs of the transition against long-term technical health and feature development.
• Technical Readiness: Partner with Engineering Managers to ensure the internal team is equipped to take on the codebase, identifying risks associated with technical debt or lack of documentation before the handover.
• Dependency & Risk Mapping: Proactively identify and manage cross-functional dependencies and risks associated with the transition and integration phases.
• Resourcing & Capacity: Help the team balance the immediate needs of the transition against long-term technical health and feature development.
• Transparency & Reporting: Maintain up-to-date, visual documentation of the transition roadmap, architectural decisions, and project risks for all stakeholders.

About You:

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Proven Transition Experience. You have previously led the transition of a software product from an external vendor to an in-house team.
• Experience working in high-growth, fast-paced scale up environments where processes are still evolving.
• Demonstrable experience managing senior leadership expectations in a scale up when requirements can evolve quickly.
• A product mindset. You have a deep understanding of the software product lifecycle and understand the product being built.
• High technical literacy. You can hold your own in technical discussions and understand the implications of architectural decisions on delivery timelines.
• Strategic and detail-oriented with the ability to switch between the bigger picture planning and the granular detail of a detailed project plan or migration checklist.
• Expert knowledge of Agile methodologies and the ability to adapt them to a transition project.
• A confident communicator. You are clear and assured yet diplomatic. You are able to hold both external vendors and internal teams to account.

What we offer: We're always looking for new ways to celebrate our people. You'll be no different.

• The chance to work with a passionate team that's working together everyday towards our shared big ambitious goal
• A dynamic, flexible and fun scale-up work environment with a highly talented team
• 26 days holiday per year, plus public holidays
• Private medical cover with Bupa for all our colleagues
• Pension scheme, offering up to 6% matching contribution
• Up to 20 Nomad Working Days per annum
• Electric Car Scheme

Flexible & Hybrid Working: We said you'll get freedom to work in a way that is best for you, and that extends to being in the office - or not.

Work better from home? No worries. Prefer the office? Come on down. We have 2 mandatory Townhall days; Spring and Autumn, where the whole business gets together. When you visit the office you won't just find rows and rows of desks. No, you'll find our colleagues meeting on the walking pads, having planning sessions over a game of tennis table or grabbing a bean bag in our 'Quality' collaborative space - that's right we live our values so much, we named our meeting spaces after them.

You can also shape work around your life at Airbox Systems; most colleagues work our core hours of 9am-5pm with others flexibly between 7am-7pm. Whether you're fitting in a spin class or the school run, you'll have the flexibility for whatever matters most. All we ask in return is that you produce great work, but when you're working with passionate people, that part comes naturally.

Connect with us: Interested in the role, or Airbox in general, but you don't meet 100% of the requirements? We'd love to hear from you. We encourage you to connect with us here; we'd be excited to see if your unique skill set and experience could be a match for future roles.