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Director of Product & Tech Delivery at Kaluza

Director of Product & Tech Delivery

Kaluza · BST, GB

1 months ago

Director of Product & Tech Delivery

Kaluza · BST, GB

a month ago
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About the Role

Own the timely and predictable execution of the Product & Technology roadmap for Kaluza and its clients, managing global product, field deployment, and platform foundations teams. Provide leadership confidence in delivery capabilities and manage relationships at all levels, from board-level to detailed dependencies.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive successful delivery across Kaluza’s Product and Tech organisation, managing multiple streams aligned to client programmes or global initiatives.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of the Product & Tech roadmap across assigned areas, including client streams and global product streams.
  • Implement evolutions of a standard methodology to enable business scaling and ensure successful client implementations.
  • Drive roadmap alignment, delivery enablement, and reporting at multiple levels, from team detail to executive overview.
  • Provide confidence in delivery capabilities through robust capacity planning, milestone tracking, forecasting, and proactive management of cross-team dependencies.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, UX, and Client Delivery leadership to ensure deliverables meet client capabilities, support needs, and timelines, and to integrate client feedback into the delivery process.
  • Provide objective, data-led insights on delivery status, proactively escalate risks and issues, and drive decisions with senior leadership and clients.
  • Embed good practices into internal delivery management practices and contribute to shaping their future roadmap.
  • Deputise for the VP when needed.
  • Lead the strategic evolution of delivery practices by embedding AI-assisted methodologies into operational workflows.
  • Embed AI-assisted delivery into reporting, forecasting, capacity and effort analysis, dependency mapping, risk detection, and status communication.
  • Push the boundaries of Jira, JQL, and agentic workflows; build dashboards and reporting to drive development at pace and reduce manual effort.
  • Simplify and standardize practice across Product & Tech, refining ways of working, embedding Agile & Lean practice, and improving predictability and effort-to-value ratio.
  • Act as a change driver, co-owning the delivery of a roadmap of improvements to the system of work alongside Business Operations.
  • Champion continuous improvement and demonstrate effective AI-native delivery practices.
  • Build a self-sufficient, empowered function that excels in execution and transparency.
  • Lead and develop people leaders and delivery managers, setting clear objectives, focus, and clarity.
  • Coach the team to navigate complexity and uncertainty, self-solve problems, and align efforts with Kaluza’s goals and client commitments.
  • Coach the team to understand the product domain to enable cross-functional team delivery of the product roadmap and client delivery goals.
  • Mentor and upskill across the delivery community, raising standards and demonstrating best practices.
  • Remove barriers that hinder Product teams' focus on innovation and strategy, and Engineering teams' focus on technical excellence and execution.
  • Support the Delivery function in achieving its strategy and goals, and champion wider change and planning initiatives.
  • Act as an innovative thinker and member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive business forward.
  • Act as a trusted partner to Product, Engineering, UX, and Client Delivery leadership.
  • Confidently manage relationships with C-level clients.
  • Deliver objective tracking, milestone visibility, forecasting, and proactive risk mitigation strategies to leadership.

Requirements

  • Existing right to work in the UK.
  • Accomplished delivery leader with a strong track record.
  • A builder and executor who defines standards, takes accountability, and proactively seeks resources.
  • Genuinely AI-native with deep curiosity in innovation and AI tools, actively pushing AI adoption into delivery practice.
  • Nimble leader comfortable in complex, undefined spaces, capable of diving into problems at multiple altitudes.
  • Accomplished delivery leader and bar raiser in managing large-scale, cross-functional delivery management functions within a high-growth SaaS environment.
  • Experienced in leading delivery management at scale, including line-managing and developing people leaders across cross-functional Product & Engineering teams using agile methodologies.
  • Able to design and evolve delivery operating models, governance, and ways of working, with an openness to refine current Kaluza practice.
  • A trusted partner to Product & Engineering leadership, able to influence senior leadership and credible with C-level clients.
  • Strong listener, people leader, and coach able to empower teams and colleagues, and to drive change.
  • Fluent with Jira, or similar roadmapping tools, with curiosity about using JQL and AI for dashboards and reporting.
  • Comfortable switching between team-level detail and executive-level overview.
  • Committed to radical candour, asking hard questions and giving honest developmental feedback.
  • Extensive experience managing delivery frameworks across major global energy utility accounts or multi-regional client programmes.
  • Proven background or curiosity in implementing an AI-integrated Product Development Lifecycle alongside business operations teams.

Skills

  • Product & Technology roadmap execution
  • Delivery management at scale
  • AI-assisted delivery methodologies
  • Agile and Lean practices
  • Capacity planning
  • Milestone tracking
  • Forecasting
  • Dependency management
  • Risk and issue management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Client relationship management
  • Jira
  • JQL
  • Reporting and dashboard creation
  • People leadership and coaching
  • Change management
  • Continuous improvement

Location

  • Bristol (hybrid)
  • London (hybrid)

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Director
  • Senior Leadership

Salary/Compensations

  • £130,400 - £163,000

Benefits

  • Pension Scheme
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
  • Life Assurance
  • Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
  • Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
  • Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
  • 5% Flex Fund
  • 26 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Progressive Leave Policy
  • Personal Learning Budget
  • Home Office Budget

About the Company

  • Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination.
  • We help energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.
  • Leveraging Data, AI, and real-time decision-making, we turn energy complexity into growth opportunities for our partners.
  • By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable and affordable.
  • With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

Equal Opportunity

  • We want the best people.
  • We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life.
  • Our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
  • We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.
  • We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.