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Our technology helps the world’s biggest construction projects make faster, more confident, data-driven decisions.\nBy combining one of the world’s largest datasets of project plans with advanced machine learning, we forecast project outcomes and reduce risk - reshaping how infrastructure gets built.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for a Principal Client Engineer with deep expertise in project controls, risk analysis and complex construction schedules of major projects to join and help shape our growing client team. You'll be one of the most senior technical voices our clients interact with, and a go-to point of judgement for the team's toughest schedule and risk problems. You will also have (personal or professional) exposure to generative AI, and have a strong interest in this space.\nIn this role, you'll use your expertise to help our clients maximise the value they get from nPlan, help develop the people around you, and be part of the change to revolutionise the industry. If you've ever been frustrated by the limitations of QSRA workshops, poor forecasting data, or limited time for analysis, this could be the job for you.\nYou'll have autonomy, ownership, and trust from day one, and you'll be working with talented people who care deeply about our mission.\nWhile you work remotely, you will also attend monthly client visits and team meetings in our London office as well as have the opportunity to visit our international clients.\nAbout The Role\nYou'll work cross-functionally across multiple areas, using your domain expertise and seniority to have a real, tangible impact:\nClient engagement\nActing as the senior trusted advisor to our most strategically important clients, including at senior stakeholder level, on how they maximise the value they get from nPlan.\n\nOwning and growing our most complex or highest-value client relationships, and acting as an escalation point across the wider client portfolio when things get technically or politically tricky.\n\nDefining how the product should be configured to bring maximum value for our most complex clients, and setting the standard other client engineers follow.\n\nProduct deployment\nOwning strategic projects end-to-end that improve how we embed our products within client organisations, including projects that span multiple clients or accounts.\n\nSetting the approach for how clients adopt our advanced features (e.g. LLM-based features), and mentoring clients directly on the most complex use cases.\n\nCommercial\nPartnering with Commercial leadership to shape strategy for engagement, retention, and expansion, not just executing on it.\n\nProduct\nActing as a senior domain-expert voice with Product Managers and AI Engineers, shaping prototyping direction rather than just contributing to it.\n\nOwning the domain-expert function within our LLM evaluation cycle, setting the standard for what \"reliable and accurate\" means and improving the process itself.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nWe're excited to hear from people who bring expertise, authority, and curiosity.\nTo succeed in this role, you'll bring:\n7+ years of experience in a planning, risk, PMO, or project management role on major construction projects, including a track record of owning the trickiest schedule risk problems end-to-end.\n\nDeep understanding of large construction schedules (P6), how they are built, and how to analyse them.\n\nDemonstrable experience leading and delivering strategic projects that significantly improve an important outcome for an organisation, with the credibility to influence senior client stakeholders directly.\n\nExperience mentoring or upskilling other planning, risk or project controls professionals.\n\nPassion for implementing technology to improve the construction industry.\n\nAttention to detail - please mention the word 'crane' in your application form.\n\nExcellent relationship-building skills: You care deeply about delighting customers.\n\nNice to haves:\nExperience working in a software company or on the implementation of software in the construction context\n\nExperience working with LLM applications\n\nExperience shaping how a team's methodology or ways of working evolve, or feeding client insight back into product direction\n\nWhy You’ll Love Working Here\nCompetitive salary between $110k - $140k + generous equity - when nPlan succeeds, so do you.\n\nFlexible hours, remote-friendly, with a Shoreditch office HQ.\n\nUncapped holiday, private medical insurance, personal learning and development budget, enhanced family and sick leave, and more.\n\nRoom to grow - we’re just over 50 people and scaling fast.\n\nGuided by our values: Learn from Everything. 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