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About the Role

The Research Program Manager will partner with research leaders to operationalize ambitious research goals into clear plans and sustainable progress, managing the planning, milestones, dependencies, and reporting for research programs. This role sits at the intersection of Research, Delivery, Product, and external partners, connecting technical work to strategy and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted sounding board to research leads on plans, priorities, and decisions.
• Create clarity and resolve ambiguity by translating high-level objectives into smaller, manageable ones.
• Own the planning and delivery cadence for research streams, maintaining roadmaps with clear milestones, owners, and decision points.
• Run effective operating rhythms and rituals with clear agendas, captured decisions, and tracked follow-ups.
• Track progress against plans, surface risks and dependencies early, and drive them to resolution.
• Foster collaboration across Delivery, Product, Engineering, and Operations to align priorities, secure resources, and remove friction.
• Act as a translator and bridge between technical and strategic direction, maintaining a single source of truth for research project status, scope, and reporting.
• Create clear and concise materials to communicate work done to internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive strategic research collaborations and partnerships by coordinating timelines, deliverables, and communications with external partners and customers.
• Support resourcing and capacity planning across concurrent research efforts, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term research objectives.
• Help coordinate research outputs such as papers, conference attendance, and internal demos to meet deadlines and commitments.
• Review or contribute to high-level output to improve messaging.
• Coach individuals through complex challenges and ensure conditions are in place for high-performing teams to produce pioneering work.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in program management, strategic operations, or consulting, ideally in a research, R&D, deep-tech environment, or other complex content work.
• Experience partnering with leaders in fast-paced environments, acting as a sounding board and thought partner on important projects, initiatives, and decisions.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous settings with shifting context, bringing structure without slowing people down.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to develop high-trust relationships and influence without authority.
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to analyze issues, identify root causes, and drive practical solutions quickly.
• Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality output, while keeping in mind the bigger picture and adjusting accordingly.
• Sufficient technical literacy to engage credibly with researchers and engineers.
• Familiarity with modern project-management and collaboration tooling (e.g. Notion, Linear, GitHub).

Skills

• Program Management
• Strategic Operations
• Consulting
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication
• Problem-Solving
• Attention to Detail
• Technical Literacy
• Project Management Tooling
• Collaboration Tooling
• Machine Learning (Nice to Have)
• Simulation (Nice to Have)
• Scientific Computing (Nice to Have)
• Research Program Management (Nice to Have)
• External Research Partnerships (Nice to Have)
• Grants Management (Nice to Have)
• Academic Collaboration (Nice to Have)
• Coaching Techniques (Nice to Have)

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3+ years of experience

Education Level

• Background in a quantitative, scientific, or engineering field is a plus.

Benefits

• Equity options
• 10% employer pension contribution
• Free office lunches
• Enhanced parental leave (3 months full pay paternity, 6 months full pay maternity)
• YellowNest nursery scheme
• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)
• Private medical insurance (100% employee cover)
• Wellhub Subscription
• Eye tests
• Personal development support
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Bike2Work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Octopus EV salary sacrifice

About the Company

• PhysicsX is a deep-tech company with roots in numerical physics and Formula One, dedicated to accelerating hardware innovation at the speed of software.
• We are building an AI-driven simulation software stack for engineering and manufacturing across advanced industries.
• PhysicsX unlocks new levels of optimization and automation in design, manufacturing, and operations by enabling high-fidelity, multi-physics simulation through AI inference across the entire engineering lifecycle.
• Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive.
• PhysicsX is building AI that transforms how the world’s most complex engineering problems are solved.
• We are scaling rapidly following our Series B.
• We operate with a flat structure where good ideas win.
• We believe in balancing focused, ambitious work with a life beyond it.

Equal Opportunity

• We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity.
• We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply.
• We sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics.
• We collect diversity and inclusion data solely for the purpose of monitoring the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policies and ensuring compliance with UK employment and equality legislation.
• This information is confidential, used only in aggregate form, and will not influence the outcome of your application.