Engineering Program Manager - UltraGrid

What You’ll Do

• Coordinate a Single-Track Roadmap: Serve as the primary point of contact between the UX team, engineering, product management, and other stakeholders, aligning everyone to one overarching roadmap.
• Plan & Track with Jira: Use Atlassian Jira as the central project management tool, setting milestones, tracking progress, and ensuring on-time delivery.
• Define Project Scope & Goals: Collaborate with leadership and stakeholders to clarify requirements, set objectives, and outline deliverables for each phase.
• Risk Management & Problem-Solving: Identify potential bottlenecks, issues, or conflicts early, proposing solutions to maintain momentum.
• Cross-Functional CollaborationCross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular updates on project status, challenges, and successes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor & Lead: Encourage best practices in project organization and teamwork, fostering an environment of ownership, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.

Projects You’ll Work On

As part of our User Experience team, you will focus on the most important family of products Hypervolt creates for its customers:

• UltraGrid: Our core backend engine for serving hundreds of thousands of connected homes with real-time data. UltraGrid is a connectivity layer that facilitates grid balancing and integration with some of the world's largest VPPs and energy retailers.
• Built to allow rebalancing the grid and sustain EV adoption at mass scale, UltraGrid aims to be a masterpiece of performance engineering, deeply focused on performance and cost, while streaming 100,000 telemtries daily from each connected household.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience at the Highest Level of Professional Software Development: While this is not a coding role, you should be able to collaborate closely with “super hardcore” engineering teams and navigate complex development projects.
• Startup Background: Previous experience in a startup environment is highly valued; you should be comfortable operating with less structure than in a large corporate setting.
• Tier-1 Software company background: Our engineers come from Tier 1 software companies, such as Google, Twitter, and Netflix, organisations where software quality and performance matter. You will need deep experience interacting with experienced engineers and complex requirements.
• Consumer-Facing Products: A proven track record of successfully managing projects for products at scale (experience with large-scale consumer tech is a plus).
• Technical & Customer Insight: You understand technology deeply and recognize what our customers want, translating user needs into actionable product goals.
• Fast-Growing Environment: Ability to thrive in a rapidly scaling, fast-paced company, juggling multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Green Energy Enthusiasm: Bonus points if you’re passionate about electric cars, energy transition, or sustainability initiatives.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Generous Stock Options: Be rewarded for helping us grow and succeed.
• Hybrid Working Policy: 3 days a week in our prime offices in Canary Wharf London, and flexibility to work from home the rest of the time.
• Diverse International Environment: English is the company's primary language, and our team is spread across different countries and cultures.
• Professional Growth: Career advancement and professional development opportunities in a fast-growing company.
• Inclusive Environment: Join a diverse, inclusive team that values collaboration and innovation.

Our Values

Be persistent

What we aim to do is not always going to be easy, and problem-solving, no matter how big or small, is essential if we are going to achieve our mission. Whether it be a technical challenge you are struggling to unblock, a new client you are trying to win or a logistical puzzle you need to solve, the only way we will grow as a company and as individuals is by being persistent in working things through to a solution. Success seldom comes from the first attempt, but it almost always comes from the 1000th, and the difference between success and failure often isn’t persistently or the aha moment or the brilliant idea: it’s having the perseverance to continue pushing and never giving in to failure.

Be accountable

We operate in a fast-paced, highly collaborative and increasingly autonomous environment at Hypervolt. We are on the journey from a scrappy startup to a true market contender, but no matter how big the company gets, treat it as your own. Be accountable for its progress, and look after it as you would your creation. If you know things can be improved, articulate them, say them, and don’t go along in the silence of knowing we could have done better. If we make a mistake, find a way to say it. There’s no value in keeping it to yourself; we will succeed or fail together.

The ‘Ello Sir Ethos

We should always aim to treat people the way they want to be treated and always remember the “voting” power of customers. They are the actual boss and real “employer”—the market.

Dare to dream

Every technological advancement we use today was once a crazy dream that a few persistent pioneers truly believed. “Most things have to be seen to be believed, but some things have to be believed to be seen!” – Steve Jobs, on building the Apple Mac, the best-selling computer of all time.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The hunger and ambition for continuous success are the orbital solar beam-powered reactor at the core of our success, and our ability to stay foolish and humble and continue to let ourselves be educated by our market will help us reach the full potential of our ambition. Only through the most selfless dedication to our dreams will we achieve the most selfish of successes.

True Greatness is Blind

Great ideas and execution can come from anyone and anywhere at any time.

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Cross-functional collaboration

About Hypervolt Limited

Hypervolt is at the forefront of the electric vehicle charging revolution, dedicated to providing innovative and reliable EV charging solutions. We launched in 2021 with the bold ambition to transform the EV charging space through a relentless focus on the customer experience, great software, and beautifully designed British hardware. 

In a short timeframe, we became Trustpilot's highest rated EV charging manufacturer in the industry. We are proud to have been named the third fastest growing company in the UK, as part of the Deloitte Fast 50, and 6th fastest growing company in EMEA, as part of the Deloitte Fast 500.

Additionally, Hypervolt was voted DrivingElectric’s Home EV Charger of the Year 2023 & 2024, a testament to our focus on innovation and democratising EV ownership.