Senior Program Manager in Manchester

AI is everywhere, but most companies are drowning in experiments that go nowhere. At Matillion, we’re embedding AI into how we work, scale, and win. We need someone tenacious and strategic to turn our AI ambition into reality—not just for one team, but for the entire business. You’ll be the central nervous system for Matillion’s internal AI evolution, bridging the gap between high‑level ambition and practical, secure execution. Reporting to the CISO, you’ll ensure AI initiatives deliver scalable, governed, high‑ROI systems that demonstrably increase our organizational velocity. You own the "Why," the "When," and the "So What" of our internal AI roadmap. This role is hybrid to our Manchester office.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the internal AI roadmap, prioritising high‑impact, low‑risk automations that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Lead cross‑functional AI initiatives across the business, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, security governance, and ROI targets.
• Drive the cultural shift to an "AI‑First" mindset—developing training programs, managing change, and reducing "AI anxiety" across non‑technical teams.
• Define and report KPIs such as "Hours Reclaimed," "Process Velocity," and "Cost per Automation," delivering quarterly impact reports to the executive team.
• Act as the bridge between technical and non‑technical stakeholders, translating AI complexity into actionable strategy and holding teams accountable for delivery.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in Programme Management or PMO roles within high‑growth SaaS environments, with a track record of delivering complex, cross‑functional initiatives.
• Understanding of LLMs, API integrations, and RAG architectures—you don’t need to code, but you must challenge timelines and technical approaches and be able to have technical discussions.
• Tenacious delivery mindset: you prefer "deployed and iterative" over "perfect and delayed," and you hold yourself and others accountable for results.
• Strategic thinker who can operate across the entire business, influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption without direct authority.
• Empathetic leader who can move teams away from legacy manual processes, building trust and driving change through influence, not force.

Company Culture & Values

Matillion is the intelligent data integration platform. We’re changing how the world works with data—our Data Productivity Cloud supercharges data productivity, and our AI‑powered virtual data engineers, Maia, help teams design, build, and manage data pipelines at unmatched speed. Join #TeamGreen, where the mission comes first, collaboration drives us forward, and everyone pulls in the same direction to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves.

At Matillion, we are committed to providing competitive salaries in line with market standards. Our estimated compensation range for this position is £77,600 – £116,400, but the final salary will be based on your relevant skills, experience and qualifications demonstrated in the hiring process.

Our Core Values

• Confidence without arrogance
• Working with integrity
• Customer obsessed
• Innovate and demand quality
• Bias for action
• We care

Benefits

• Company Equity
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• 5 days paid volunteering leave
• Health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension
• Access to mental health support

About Matillion

Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, London Stock Exchange Group, EDF and Slack trust Matillion for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning and AI. We are a truly global workforce, dual headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado, with expanding offices in Hyderabad, India, along with valuable remote colleagues around the world.