Senior Technical Product Manager

Caveroquantum; Leeds; On-site; GBP 125,000 - GBP 150,000; Full time

Job description

Role: Technical Product & Project Manager

Location: Nexus, Leeds - hybrid (50% office, 50% remote)

Salary: £75000 negotiable according to experience

Reports to: CTO (Acting CTO & CEO initially)

Contract: Initially fixed term contract due to maternity cover, possible transition to permanent (+benefits) afterwards.

Cavero Quantum is a University of Leeds spin-out on a mission to secure the future of the Internet of Things. As we transition from R&D to commercial deployment of our Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Authentication solutions, we need a technical product leader to bridge the gap between our world-class cryptographic research and real-world customer value.

The Role

Own the product roadmap and project delivery execution. You'll inform the product strategy, own decisions on what and how we build and ensure it ships on time and in spec. No BA layer, no separate scrum master, you're accountable end-to-end.

Product Management (60%)

• Manage product roadmap aligned to commercial milestones
• Translate cryptographic capabilities into customer-facing value propositions.
• Engage directly with customers and prospects to gather feedback, understand needs, and glean insights that inform product decisions, and manage pre-sales support.
• Manage customer relationships from a technical standpoint— managing expectations, triaging issues, coordinating when to involve specialist team members (e.g., engineering or research) and ensuring technical team time is used efficiently.
• Stakeholder management: investors, early customers, internal team

Project Management (40%)

• Delivery planning and sprint governance (Scrumban)
• Critical path mapping and milestone planning
• Status reporting and stakeholder communication
• Gate management for compliance milestones (ISO 27001, GDPR, NIST SP-800)
• Resource and capacity planning
• Prioritise backlog ruthlessly according to product roadmap.

Requirements

Must have:

• Cybersecurity/cryptography domain exposure
• 3+ years in senior technical product and project management roles with roadmap ownership, strategic thinking etc, not just ticket refinement
• Experience running multiple project streams and customers efficiently
• Well organised, excellent communication skills, able to ‘get things done’.
• Technical fluency: can read architecture diagrams, understand API contracts, discuss trade-offs with engineers, particularly around security, cryptography and lightweight devices
• Demonstrable project delivery experience: critical path mapping, milestone planning, stage gates, governance
• Agile methodology experience (Scrum/Kanban/Scrumban)
• Comfortable with ambiguity: startup pace, not enterprise process
• Must be ready to ‘hit the ground running’
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g. Jira, MS365 suite, GitHub Projects) & ability to adapt to new management tools.
• Available to work from 1st April
• Post-quantum cryptography knowledge and experience
• Prior experience of governance rigour
• Prior experience of highly innovative and rapidly evolving environments
• Experience with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, GDPR, PCI)
• Exposure to IoT, embedded systems, SIM, ARM and microprocessor devices
• Commercial awareness: understands what drives Series A investment

Mindset

• Start-up mindset - excel in ambiguity, wearing multiple hats
• Passion to learn: you'll need to grasp post-quantum cryptography and other very technical concepts quickly; pivotal to the role
• Self‑directed when working remotely
• Thrives in diverse, small-team, highly accountable and collaborative environments
• Knows the right tool for the job at hand

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Temporary, Fixed term contract, Temp to perm

Pay: From £75,000.00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds LS2 3AA