Technical Project Manager in London

We guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities. Our people and our values guide us to be curious, focused and together. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility.

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing the successful delivery of our B2B DaaS and data integration solutions to automotive, navigation, and mapping customers. The role ensures that projects are executed efficiently, meeting cost, schedule, and quality objectives, with processes and documentation aligned to Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) project management best practices. This role includes agreeing on a project's scope and deliverables, creating and maintaining ASPICE-compliant documentation, whilst managing issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Additionally, the Technical Project Manager will be responsible for accurate time tracking and invoicing, ensuring that all billable time is accurately captured and reported.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery: Plan, execute, and deliver projects within budget, scope, and schedule, in alignment with ASPICE Project Management (MAN.3) and related processes (SUP.1, SUP.8).
• Team Management: Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, data operations, and customer success) to ensure delivery aligns with both customer expectations and ASPICE-defined responsibilities. Promote a culture of process discipline and continuous improvement across delivery teams.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate with all stakeholders, including clients, senior management, and project teams, to ensure project goals are clear and expectations are met.
• Financial Management: Control project budget, scope, and schedule, ensuring the capture and billing of all project-related time and resources.
• Risk Management: Identify and manage risks, issues, and change requests, implementing mitigation plans as necessary.
• Quality Management: Ensure that all projects adhere to high-quality standards and meet customer expectations, including compliance standards such as ASPICE.
• Structured Communication: Use structured communication and thinking to coordinate between different teams, manage project risks, and drive the efficient delivery of projects.
• Reporting & Documentation: Prepare and maintain ASPICE-compliant project artefacts, including Project Charter, Execution Plan, Quality Plan, Risk Log, Review Records, and Progress Reports. Provide periodic reporting to internal and external stakeholders, highlighting progress against KPIs, process adherence, and lessons learned.
• Process Ownership & Framework Governance: Own and maintain Parkopedia's Project Management Framework, ensuring it remains aligned with Quality Management and ASPICE best practices. Drive continuous improvement and regular reviews of the framework to maintain compliance with ASPICE standards, supporting consistency, audit readiness, and process maturity across all delivery teams.

Competence / Experience Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field. PMP certification or similar is preferred but not required.
• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in project management, preferably within a SaaS or tech environment and with ASPICE experience.
• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with the automotive OEM landscape and the specific challenges and needs of these clients is desirable but not required.
• Technical Skills: Familiarity with ASPICE process areas (MAN.3, SUP.1, SUP.8, ENG.1-6) and associated artefacts. Experience with Google's Workspace, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent tools for planning, traceability, and evidence management. Understanding of API-based service delivery and data integration models.
• Financial Management: Proven experience in financial management, including budgeting, cost management, and timely billing.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional written and spoken English communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. Proficiency in German, Korean, and/or Japanese is ideal, but not required.
• Leadership Skills: Strong leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to coordinate team members and manage projects.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Proven ability to solve problems creatively, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and work under pressure.

Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile, YourParkingSpace and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It's about more than function, it's about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it's how you Arrive.