Strategy & Programs Manager

About us

Re-architecting Engineering for the Age of Intelligence

PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company’s mission is to accelerate hardware innovation by overhauling what industrial engineering and manufacturing look like today. PhysicsX is building a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. The company partners with leading organisations in aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy & renewables, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, New York, and Singapore and an expanding presence in the Bay Area.

About the Team

PhysicsX is building AI that transforms how the world’s most complex engineering problems are solved. As the company scales rapidly following our Series C, we’ve built a dedicated Strategy & Programs function whose mission is to ensure we scale gracefully — with clarity, alignment, and discipline.

The team sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. We own the company’s strategic planning process, drive cross-functional programs that upgrade how PhysicsX operates, and serve as the connective tissue that holds a fast-growing organisation together. Learn more about the team here - https://www.physicsx.ai/newsroom/scaling-gracefully-inside-physicsxs-strategy-programs-team

The Role

As a Strategy & Program Manager, you will move between strategic planning, operational efficiency, competitive intelligence, and technology enablement — sometimes in the same quarter. You’ll take on the work that sits between functions: the challenges that are strategically important but that no single team owns, and that risk falling through the cracks as we grow.

This is a generalist role by design. You are not embedded in a single function — you bring fresh eyes, an unbiased perspective, and context from across the business. You need to be the person who walks into a room where the problem isn’t yet well-defined, and leaves with a plan that everyone can execute against.

It is also one of the fastest ways to learn how a scaling company works from the inside — you will build context and judgment across every corner of the organisation that is genuinely rare.

What You’ll Do

Lead outcome-driven programs. Partner with functional leaders to own and deliver time-boxed programs that directly amplify team performance and tie back to company-wide goals — on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards.

Translate strategy into action. Break broad strategic objectives into measurable steps, run milestone-based plans, manage risks and issues, and lead status syncs to ensure clear execution.

Set and maintain strategic direction. Support the company’s strategic planning process — annual strategy refreshes, quarterly business reviews, OKR cycles — and invest in the telemetry and automated metrics that give leadership a trusted, real-time view of progress.

Surface and solve pain points. Proactively identify company and team-level challenges through stakeholder feedback, operational health metrics, and competitive intelligence, then translate those insights into structured programs.

Drive cross-functional alignment. Foster collaboration across Delivery, Product, Research, and Operations to remove blockers and ensure the connective tissue holds as we scale.

Communicate impact. Build trust and momentum by clearly communicating wins and progress through internal briefs, retrospective reports, and program updates.

Close the loop. Collect feedback, quantify ROI, and ensure every program leaves behind durable improvements that outlast the program itself.

Example Programs of Work

Through focused feedback cycles and retrospectives, every quarter surfaces new programs. Recent examples include:

Company-wide strategic planning — owning the annual strategy refresh, aligning priorities across …