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About the Role

Adaptive is a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants, valuing differentiation through technology. We are seeking a Project Manager to join our London team for an exciting new project.

Responsibilities

Combine Adaptive’s standard PM practices with programme-level planning, governance, and release discipline.
Ensure productisation and client delivery move forward together, translating the roadmap into executable plans.
Provide the team with a clear, prioritised plan covering product roadmap, client commitments, releases, and dependencies.
Ensure Engineering, BA, QA, SRE, Product, Consulting, and Client Delivery understand their responsibilities and work without avoidable blockers.
Provide stakeholders with accurate, timely information on progress, risk, scope, cost, and decisions.
Plan, test, document, and communicate releases with clear go/no-go ownership.
Convert product and client feedback into structured backlog items, roadmap decisions, and reusable product knowledge.
Enable Adaptive to forecast delivery capacity, revenue, margin, and risk with confidence.
Own and maintain an integrated delivery plan and prioritised backlog connecting product outcomes, client milestones, resourcing, and dependencies.
Proactively identify, track, and mitigate cross-team dependencies and RAID items across technical, operational, and commercial domains.
Provide regular status reporting, burndown tracking, and actionable options to address slippage or scope changes.
Manage the sprint and release cadence, overseeing scope cut-offs, go/no-go readiness, non-functional requirements, and support handover.
Protect product quality and release confidence by ensuring thorough testing, operational readiness, and transparent blocker triage.
Coordinate distributed teams and regional leads, address capacity or capability gaps, and support onboarding.
Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives, servant leadership, and resolving recurring challenges.
Empower team decision-making while expanding domain, delivery, and product expertise.
Foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment across regions, roles, and workflows.
Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, QA, BA, SRE, Product, and Client Delivery while ensuring accountability.
Hold routine 1:1s to discuss feedback, well-being, growth, and performance alignment.
Set clear goals and standards, monitor progress, and provide timely guidance.
Recognise high impact and provide objective input for performance, promotion, and compensation reviews.
Resolve performance issues or friction fairly, escalating to People Ops or leadership when necessary.
Establish risk mitigation strategies and succession plans for key roles, governance, and client relationships.
Lead client delivery governance, maintaining transparent records of scope, decisions, assumptions, and contractual commitments.
Partner with Account Management and leadership to manage budgets, resource costs, revenue forecasts, and commercial margin risks.

Requirements

Strong consulting presence, credible and trusted by clients.
Confident to reason, debate, and push back when needed, advocating for and protecting the team.
Senior delivery professional with a strong background in software delivery and software service delivery.
Highly experienced in Agile, including the end-to-end Agile delivery process, and confident challenging it where it isn’t working.
Skilled in creating and maintaining clear documentation, including setting up wikis for highly bespoke software.

Skills

Agile delivery
Software delivery
Software service delivery
Documentation creation
Wiki setup
Project management
Backlog management
Dependency tracking
RAID management
Status reporting
Burndown tracking
Sprint management
Release management
Testing
Operational readiness
Blocker triage
Team coordination
Continuous improvement
Servant leadership
Cross-functional alignment
Performance management
Risk mitigation
Succession planning
Client governance
Budget management
Revenue forecasting
Margin risk management

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

25 days holiday
Family medical and dental
Pension plan
Season ticket loan
Gym subsidy
Life insurance
Long-term disability insurance
Employee Assistance Plan
Highly-flexible, hybrid working model
Well-being benefits

About the Company

Adaptive is a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants.
We value differentiation through technology.
Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.
Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers.
We have a global reach with offices in Manila, London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal.
We have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.
We offer a high-standard engineering culture where team members take pride in crafting complex technical solutions and sharing knowledge.
We foster professional growth and learning from experienced individuals.
We are a growing company.
Our teams are encouraged to speak up, make suggestions, and raise concerns.
We provide a collaborative team environment with mutual respect.
We prioritize work/life balance.
We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative, and inclusive culture.
We positively impact staff and local communities through well-being, diversity, and inclusion programmes.

Equal Opportunity

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us.
We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.
All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles.
The employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive.