Product Operations Manager

About this role

Applied Computing was founded in 2024 to build Orbital, a physics-informed foundation model for energy operations. We’re live across oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemicals, working towards our mission: sustainable
abundance for a growing planet.

The hydrocarbon industry keeps the world running. But its complexity has left operators tied to legacy systems, making critical decisions on less than 10% of available data. We built Orbital to change that. It’s a foundation model built specifically for energy that lets companies use AI at scale, harnessing all of their operational
data and optimising in real time for any metric. Decisions get faster, operations get safer, and carbon intensity falls.

We’ve raised over $32 million, including one of the largest seed rounds for an
AI company in the UK. We’re just getting started

The Role

The Product Operations Manager is the operational backbone of the product team. This role exists to ensure that execution is clear, delivery is predictable, and engineering teams can focus on building, without being slowed down by process theatre or rigid Agile dogma.

You will own product execution mechanics: Jira, sprint flow, delivery visibility, and cross-PM coordination (customer facing). This is not a product vision role, and not a Scrum Master role. It is a hands-on, high-agency position for someone who thrives in ambiguity and knows how to keep teams shipping.

What You’ll Own

• Jira as the single source of truth for product execution

• Sprint and delivery flow across internal product teams

• Execution visibility for leadership and stakeholders

• Day-to-day coordination between internal PMs and customer-facing PMs

• Lightweight process that scales with team maturity, not ceremony

Must-Have Qualifications

· 3 years + in product operations, delivery management, or execution-focused PM roles

· Hands-on ownership of Jira in engineering-heavy teams

· Experience working closely with senior engineers and tec...