Senior New Product Development & Launch Project Manag in Exeter

DeGould is seeking an experienced New Product Development (NPD) & Launch Project Manager to lead the delivery of its next-generation automated inspection platforms from early concept through industrialisation, pilot deployment and commercial launch. This hybrid role sits at the intersection of product management, software delivery and systems engineering, and is critical to ensuring that customer requirements are translated into scalable, high-quality software-led products. It requires a highly organised and proactive individual with exceptional communication skills, a strong attention to detail, and a passion for understanding complex systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive project success and ensure smooth, efficient operations across all stages of delivery.

We expect interviews to commence in June, with a September start date for the successful candidate.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Product Delivery: Own delivery of our next-generation product, coordinating hardware, machine learning, application software, platform and systems teams from early requirements definition through pilot deployment and product launch. Lead cross-functional project execution and ensure strong alignment between product requirements, software architecture, operations, customer-facing teams. Establish and manage delivery plans, milestones and dependencies aligned to business priorities.
• Requirements & Discovery Management: Work closely with Product Management to support customer discovery and problem definition, particularly in new verticals. Translate discovery insights into clear, prioritised software and system requirements. Enforce scope control and change management to protect delivery timelines.
• Launch Readiness & Industrialisation: Define and manage product launch readiness, with emphasis on software quality, reliability, usability and maintainability. Coordinate pilot deployments and ensure software and hardware platforms are robust, supportable and scalable. Work with Operations and Customer teams to ensure smooth transition from development to live environments.
• Execution Governance: Establish and run delivery governance, including stage-gates, sprint reviews and release readiness reviews. Track progress, risks and dependencies across teams, escalating where required. Support senior leadership and board-level reviews with clear, evidence-based reporting.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as a central coordination point between Product, Software, ML, Systems, Operations and Commercial teams. Ensure clear communication of priorities, trade-offs and delivery status across the organisation. Support customer-facing reviews during pilots and early deployments.

Skills:

• Essential: Strong experience delivering software-led products to market, ideally in complex or regulated environments. Proven background in product development, software delivery and launch, not just internal project execution. Experience working with product managers, software engineers and ML teams. Ability to operate effectively where requirements are evolving and discovery-led. Excellent planning, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Desirable: Experience in platform or SaaS-style product delivery. Exposure to machine learning or data-driven products. Experience integrating software platforms with hardware or physical systems. Familiarity with Agile, hybrid Agile/Waterfall, or stage-gate delivery models. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

About the Company:

DeGould is an exciting, multi-award-winning company, in the software and AI sector. The company develops and delivers innovative damage detection systems to a range of blue-chip corporate clients. As the company embarks on an exciting growth phase the company plans to expand the team, further develop existing products, and explore opportunities for new ones.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits including:
• 25 days holiday per annum (excluding bank holidays)
• Life assurance/death in service of 4 times basic salary
• Additional days holiday for birthday
• Company sick pay scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension auto enrolment after 3 months service
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.

Behaviours:

As an employee of DeGould Ltd, you are required to meet a number of common standards of behaviour, accountabilities and outcomes. In addition, and in relation to this role it is expected that the successful candidate will exhibit these behaviours:

• Empathy – able to put themselves in the shoes of others.
• Creative – open to new ideas and demonstrates good design skills in their work.
• Analytical - capable of working through the detail when required.
• Flexible - thriving in a fast paced, changing and opportunity rich environment.
• Collaborative – enthusiastically works with colleagues and customers alike.
• Dependable - deliver on stakeholder commitments in a timely manner.