Project Manager, Kaluza
Onboarding, 6 Month FTC
£60-75k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Posted today
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
201-500 employees
Posted today
£60-75k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate a sustainable, affordable, and resilient energy transition.
Role
Who you are
- You are an experienced Project Manager with a passion for creating exceptional employee experiences, particularly within the dynamic world of tech scale-ups. You thrive on driving process improvement and enjoy working autonomously to deliver tangible results that make a real difference to people
- Proven Project Management Expertise: A strong track record of managing end-to-end projects, with solid planning, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and delivery skills
- Experience in a Tech Scale-Up / SaaS Environment: Familiarity with fast-growing, dynamic organizations and the unique challenges of scaling People practices
- Process Mapping & Improvement Skills: Demonstrated ability to analyse current processes, identify inefficiencies, and successfully implement optimised workflows or employee journeys
- Strong Stakeholder Management: Skilled at building relationships and collaborating cross-functionally, especially with People/HR, Tech/Product, and Business Leaders
- Employee Experience Focus: A genuine understanding of what constitutes a great onboarding experience, coupled with empathy for new hires and a user-centric approach to design
- Content Creation/Curation Oversight: Experience in leading or contributing to the development and organization of engaging content
- Comfortable working autonomously and driving momentum in a fast-paced environment
- While not mandatory, some experience working within or alongside People/HR teams, with an understanding of the employee lifecycle and organizational culture dynamics, is highly beneficial
Desirable
- An understanding of Learning & Development (L&D) or Instructional Design principles
- Experience with implementing or optimising onboarding platforms (e.g., BambooHR, Workday, Greenhouse, or custom LMS solutions)
- A background in Change Management, particularly in rolling out new processes and embedding behavioral change
- An awareness of how to apply a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) lens to make onboarding truly inclusive and accessible
- A data-driven mindset, comfortable using metrics (e.g., surveys, time-to-productivity, retention rates) to evaluate effectiveness and drive continuous improvement
What the job involves
- This is a critical 6-month fixed-term contract where you will lead an impactful project focused on significantly improving Kaluza’s onboarding experience within our fast-paced tech scale-up environment
- You’ll be instrumental in designing and implementing processes that ensure our new hires seamlessly integrate, become productive quickly, and feel truly welcome from day one
- Leading End-to-End Project Delivery: Own and drive a 6-month project focused on enhancing our new hire onboarding journey, managing all phases from initiation to successful implementation, ideally leveraging Agile or hybrid methodologies
- Process Mapping & Optimization: Conduct a deep dive into our current onboarding processes, meticulously mapping workflows, identifying pain points, and pinpointing areas for greater efficiency and a smoother experience
- Driving Process Improvement: Design and implement improved, scalable workflows and employee journeys, ensuring they are practical, effective, and align with Kaluza’s culture and operational needs
- Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across People, Technology/Product, and Business leadership, translating strategic needs into actionable project deliverables
- Enhancing Employee Experience: Champion the new hire experience, gathering requirements with empathy and designing solutions that make onboarding informative, engaging, and reflective of Kaluza’s values
- Content Strategy & Oversight: Lead or contribute to the strategic development, curation, and dissemination of essential onboarding content, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accessibility for all new joiners
- Driving Autonomy & Momentum: Work autonomously to maintain project momentum, deliver on commitments, and provide clear, concise reporting on progress and outcomes in a dynamic
- Reporting To: Interim Strategic Workforce Director
Application process
- Closing date for applications: Monday 4th August 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- On top of a great pension scheme, you can spend an extra flex pot across a range of benefits that are most important to you - from charity donations, to tech loans, to taking it as cash - there's a wide range of options! There's also our annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
- 26 days holiday, including a day off for your birthday you can take at any point
- Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
- Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
- A dedicated personal learning budget
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- And more..
Company values
- We're on a mission
- We build together
- We're inclusive
- We get it done
- We communicate with purpose
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at Ovo Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years, 3 months to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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