Head of High Speed Transport

Head of High Speed Transport

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• Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time
• Location: Bristol
• Date Added: November 2025

This is a key leadership role in a growing, innovative UK tech company, shaping the future of high-speed connectivity across the UK and international transport networks. You’ll work with cutting-edge technology that transforms the passenger experience and you will be part of a collaborative, agile team that encourages creativity, curiosity and growth, both personally and professionally.

Who are we?

We are a fast-growing UK technology business specialising in advanced connectivity solutions that enhance passenger Wi-Fi experiences on high-speed transport networks. Our innovative offload technologies ensure reliable high-performance connectivity for passengers across challenging mobile environments such as trains and other moving vehicles.

As we continue to expand our product suite and partnerships across the rail and transport sector, we are seeking an exceptional leader to head out High-Speed Transport business line. This will be a pivotal role driving the company’s strategic direction, commercial performance and product roadmap in this key market.

About the Role

The Head of High-Speed Transport is responsible for the strategic, commercial, and operational leadership of the company’s high-speed transport business line. This includes defining and executing the market strategy, managing the product and technology roadmap, driving revenue growth, and ensuring commercial success across the portfolio.

You will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure the business line delivers sustainable growth, innovation, and customer value.

• Define and own the business line’s strategic direction within the wider company vision.
• Develop market positioning and long-term growth plans for connectivity offload and passenger Wi-Fi solutions in the transport sector.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies, and regulatory factors affecting the high-speed connectivity market.
• Drive revenue, margin, and profitability targets for the business line.
• Lead pricing strategy and commercial models for products and services.
• Oversee business development efforts, including customer acquisition, partnerships, and key account management within the transport industry.
• Evaluate and develop new commercial opportunities with train operators, system integrators, and infrastructure partners.
• Define and manage the product roadmap aligned with customer needs, technological innovation, and business objectives.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to translate market requirements into deliverable solutions.
• Ensure effective prioritisation of product features, performance targets, and release schedules.
• Lead a small, multidisciplinary team focused on delivering growth and innovation in the transport sector.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams across marketing, finance, and operations to ensure business line success.
• Monitor and report performance metrics to the executive team.

About You

• You will bring leadership experience from rail transport technology, telecommunications, connectivity, or a related B2B technology sector.
• You will understand passenger connectivity, mobile networks, or Wi-Fi offload solutions and how they shape customer experiences.
• You will have managed a P&L, taking ownership of pricing, revenue, and margin performance.
• You will have defined product roadmaps and delivered successful go-to-market strategies.
• You will have worked with transport operators, infrastructure providers, or technology partners to deliver impactful solutions.
• You will combine strategic thinking with strong analytical and commercial skills.
• You will communicate clearly, build trusted relationships, and influence effectively at every level.

Application Process

Our normal process will involve an on-line interview and then an in-person meeting at our Bristol office (we will assist with any travel or accommodation needs).

If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, please let us know so we can support your application.

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for many reasons other than just those outlined in this advert.

Recognition and Respect

We recognise, respect, and choose to employ people with different perspectives and experiences, because we know that this makes us a stronger and better organisation. We are working hard to eliminate any barriers so that everyone has equal opportunity for advancement. It isn’t always easy, but we are striving to create an environment which accepts, respects, and harnesses the impact of different ideas, experiences and perspectives to deliver greater value.

Hybrid Working

We encourage our team to be physically present in our office at certain times of the week. This is because we value the improve collaborative working and learning opportunities that this allows. We are a team of experts, so debating and sharing knowledge is a central part or our working culture and community spirt. We also recognise the benefits that working remotely or from home can bring. As a business we have adapted, and we continue to respect that we have a diverse team. We value and benefit from having time together in the office, but we also understand that reducing our commute, being available to our families and having quiet times to concentrate are important too. Our hybrid working model offers our team the flexibility to suit all circumstances, all individuals and all preferences.

Benefits

We offer a host of benefits to help make life easier to navigate so that you can focus on the things that matter. This includes medical insurance and a health cash plan scheme for every-day expenses, we will match your pension contributions up to 5% and we offer life assurance as standard.

Our maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and pay policies are enhanced to support your family life, and we encourage you to take advantage of our numerous salary sacrifice schemes to help make life more affordable.

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Apply Online

Please fill in the form and attach your CV to apply for this role. Someone will be in touch if you’ve been chosen to come in for an interview.