V-Nova is a high growth technology start-up shaping its place in a challenging and competitive market and seeks leaders who bring expertise, passion, and collaborative skills in order to help it succeed.  They must be able to illustrate a vision, build good working relationships with peers and senior management, and roll up their sleeves to get the job done, and must be able to embrace the risk and challenge that a start-up brings.

V-Nova’s Engineering department is growing in line with our project deliveries, both external customer facing and internal, product focused. We are looking for a Technical Delivery Manager with a strong technical background to provide delivery ownership to requirements set out by our product managers.

You will be organised and able to work with engineers, product managers and key stakeholders to plan projects, create a schedule and understand risks and issues and work to mitigate them along with the project team. V-Nova typically delivers projects using Agile methodologies either scrum or Kanban, you will have had experience working in an Agile environment, operating as a Scrum Master or similar role within a scrum team.

V-Nova’s projects are technical in nature, so you will have experience working as a senior engineer in a technical lead role or as a technical project manager delivering software.

You will be well versed in the software life cycle and have a healthy appreciation of various software engineering delivery techniques.

V-Nova is a fast-paced company so being open minded and able to adapt to changing requirements and able to reduce the impact of change on your delivery/scrum team is key. You will be motivated by project success and the achievements of the wider team.

• Lead project planning activities with a strong grasp of scope, risks, issues, and external dependencies.
• Collaborate with technical teams to define realistic delivery timelines and provide clear, consistent progress updates.
• While V-Nova operates with an agile mindset, maintaining structured schedules and proactive risk management is essential for delivery predictability.
• Understand and present the status of projects/initiatives that you are responsible for delivering, both to internal and external project stakeholders.
• Serve as Scrum Master in collaboration with the Technical Lead and Product Owner to drive successful delivery of V-Nova technologies. Partner with Product Management and technical stakeholders to plan sprint content aligned with business priorities and strategic goals.
• Maintain an overview and awareness of all projects, and their status inflight within V-Nova and coordinate key initiatives that span multiple projects
• Work with other Scrum Masters to provide updates and raise issues where/when necessary to the Senior Management. Identify and fill gaps in communication between projects.
• Create and review project and technical documentation.
• We operate in a dynamic environment, this requires a proactive approach to resolving issues, you may not have the solution yourself, but you will be responsible for raising issues and bringing the correct people together to solve them.

• Technical background working with software development teams with experience working in company that delivers using Agile methodologies.
• Experience planning and overseeing the delivery or project work either as a team/project manager, team/delivery/technical lead
• Self-organising and able to add structure to your own work and the engineering teams working on your projects.
• Comfortable presenting to a variety of audiences i.e. experienced technical through to management
• Understand how to support and motivate engineering teams
• Experience working on multiple concurrent projects
• Experience with Jira or similar backlog management tools

 Desirable:

• To have worked in a small company/start up environment
• Line/people management experience
• Our projects generally fit in the following technical areas, experience in any of the following technical domains is advantageous:

Commercial, optimised, multiplatform software/FPGA/ASIC development (specifically of our codecs)

Mobile and desktop application development

Cloud based transcoding platforms

Video or data compression knowledge/experience.

• Project management qualification such as PRICNE2, PMP, APM or similar
• Certified Scrum Master / Scrum Professional

V-Nova, a London based IP and software company, is dedicated to improving data compression by building a vast portfolio of innovative technologies based on the game-changing use of AI and parallel processing for data, video, imaging, and point cloud compression, with applications across several verticals. This is achieved through deep-science R&D (300+ international patents) and the development of products that test, prove and continuously enhance the technology portfolio.

V-Nova has contributed part of its IP to drive standardization of two codec formats, MPEG-5 Part 2 (LCEVC), a low-complexity enhancement video codec, and SMPTE VC-6 (ST-2117), a high-performance AI-based video and imaging codec. V-Nova has developed multiple award-winning software products to kickstart the ecosystems for its technologies and allow their immediate deployment, addressing use cases in TV, media, entertainment, social networks, eCommerce, ad-tech, security, aerospace, defence, automotive and gaming.

We’re committed to the extraordinary and rely on the talent of our high-performing diverse teams to provide innovative solutions and deliver what we promise. We’ve worked hard to create a company where talented, passionate people can thrive in a culture that values individual empowerment and excellence and achieves through teamwork. We’re constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals who thrive off solving challenging problems and want to make an impact. With groundbreaking technology, a fast-paced collaborative environment and major growth plans, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

www.v-nova.com