Habitat Energy is a fast-growing technology company focused on the trading and algorithmic optimization of energy storage and renewable assets around the world. Our mission is to deliver outstanding returns to our clients to increase the attractiveness of renewable energy globally and support the transition to a clean energy future.
We have a vacancy for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our team in Oxford. This role will support project delivery for our UK Tech team and help coordinate day-to-day execution across our Australia-based teams. You’ll report to the Global TPM and partner closely with Product Managers and Technical Leads to ensure projects are well scoped, prioritized, and delivered to quality expectations.
You’ll Play a Key Role In
* Collaborating with cross-functional teams across the UK and Australia to drive delivery of technical and product initiatives
* Supporting project initiation activities such as planning, requirements gathering, and scope definition
* Facilitating agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
* Tracking progress across teams, managing risks and blockers, and ensuring clear visibility of project status via tools like JIRA
* Coordinating testing and release planning, ensuring smooth and timely deployments
* Helping teams continuously improve delivery workflows and cross-team communication
* Providing leadership with structured, actionable updates on project health and delivery risks
You Will Be Responsible For
* Working independently while coordinating with the Global TPM to ensure alignment on delivery frameworks, proactively sharing project-level updates, and keeping project tracking (e.g., JIRA) consistently up to date to maintain visibility across time zones.
* Ensuring projects are effectively planned, tracked, and executed in a low-friction manner
* Maintaining alignment between Product and Tech teams to achieve successful product outcomes.
* Providing senior leadership with clear project visibility through structured reporting.
* Working with tech managers to ensure sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and progress tracking are in place across Tech teams.
* Promoting transparent communication across teams, ensuring that expectations, dependencies, and risks are well understood.
* Increasing adoption of tooling to ensure accurate and transparent project tracking.
* Proactively identifying risks and defining action plans with Tech managers to keep projects on track.
* Working closely with Product to ensure that they define clear, actionable, and well-prioritized PRDs.
* Ensuring that solution designs outline technical approach, align with business objectives, and minimize risk.
Preferred Skills And Experience
* Expertise with IT project and workflow management tools, in particular effectively utilizing JIRA.
* Proficient in both traditional and agile delivery approaches, with hands-on experience in upfront planning as well as agile frameworks like SCRUM and Kanban.
* Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
* Strong analytical skills, with the ability to track and report on project performance.
* Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
* A pragmatic approach to process implementation - focusing on impact over bureaucracy.
* Experience leading technical project management in a global, multi-region organization.
* Experience maturing existing project management practices and educating managers.
* Experience expertly managing stakeholders and balancing the needs of Product, Tech, and senior leadership.
* Experience managing technical projects end-to-end from collaboration with Product on PRDs to tech delivery.
* Experience working with software development and data science teams, preferably coming from a technical background yourself.
* Evidence of strong leadership, able to bring about change and collate the information needed to inform stakeholders and highlight issues.
* Experience working in energy, or related industries.
‘Nice To Have’ Skills And Experience
* Knowledge of power markets or the renewable energy sector.
* Project Management certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM
We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging, and focused on the consistent delivery of high-quality, meaningful work. In return, we’ll give you a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and a lot of personal development opportunities. We operate a hybrid working model with at least 2 days in our office in Oxford.
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