Direct People Leadership: Managing a dedicated team of our consultants, including engineers, focusing on their professional growth, performance health, and long-term career mapping.
Client Relationship Management: Serving as the primary executive contact for a portfolio of clients, transforming transactional engagements into enduring strategic partnerships.
Engagement Oversight: Maintaining "eyes-on" supervision of active consulting projects to ensure work quality meets our rigorous internal standards and technical benchmarks.
Delivery Governance: Intervening in complex technical or organizational blockers to keep projects on track, ensuring we deliver what we promised—on time and above expectations.
Client Success Accountability: Defining and tracking success metrics for every engagement, ensuring that our work creates measurable business value for our partners.
Resource & Capacity Planning: Balancing team utilization with project demands to ensure our consultants are challenged but not burned out.
AI-Augmented Delivery Evolution: Leading our teams in the pragmatic adoption of generative tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to stay at the cutting edge of consulting efficiency.
High-Performance Culture Cultivation: Build and lead a world class team of engineers and designers.
Market Expansion & Commercial Strategy: Deepen and scale our business growth across the UK and EU, expanding service offerings and scope, volume and commercial performance over time.

Have a proven background in technical delivery (Engineering, Product, or Architecture) and have successfully transitioned into a high-level management role.
Are an expert at navigating difficult client conversations with radical candor and professionalism.
Possess the learning agility to rapidly master and implement emerging AI tooling, such as LLM-based coding assistants, into a professional engineering workflow.
Are an expert at navigating difficult client conversations with radical candor and can synthesize complex problems and propose clear, actionable paths forward.
Have a track record of building high-performing teams where engineers feel supported, challenged, and heard.
Demonstrate an uncompromising eye for quality; you know what "good" looks like and aren't afraid to coach others to get there.

This role requires the ability to visit client sites across the UK and occasionally in the US.
Travel is estimated at 25–40% depending on client needs.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role in our London office.
All applicants must have the permanent right to work in the UK.

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