Senior Project Manager
HelsingAbout the role
Who we are
Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.
As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.
We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.
The role
The day-to-day
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Maintain and update the internal and external project roadmap, coordinating deliverables across engineering and commercial workstreams and keeping the team aligned on priorities, milestones and customer commitments
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Build and manage a project steering dashboard that tracks KPIs across engineering milestones and contractual commitments, providing timely and accurate performance data to senior leadership
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Coordinate stakeholder interactions across internal teams, partners and defence customers, ensuring meeting outputs, decisions and actions are clearly documented, owned and followed through
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Monitor project risks and issues, surfacing challenges early and preparing structured course-correction recommendations for programme leadership before delivery timelines are affected
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Contribute to the continuous improvement of Helsing's project management function, translating lessons learned into repeatable practices that benefit the wider organisation
You should apply if you
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Have coordinated project delivery workstreams within a defence, aerospace, automotive or engineering environment, supporting cross-functional teams across technical and commercial milestones
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Have built and maintained project tracking tools, dashboards or risk registers, and can present programme status clearly to senior internal and external stakeholders
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Hold a PMP certification or equivalent, or are actively working towards one, and can apply structured project management methodologies in high-accountability environments
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Communicate with full fluency in English, written and spoken, and can navigate standard defence and procurement terminology
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Are willing to travel regularly across sites to partner and customer locations and can meet all requirements for national security clearance under applicable law
Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.
Nice to Have
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Communicate in German alongside English, supporting customer-facing work across our German-based sites
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Familiarity with defence procurement structures or government contract environments, gained through supporting bids, proposals or contract delivery
Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields
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Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns
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The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness
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