Head of Project Management

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. The role As Project Manager within Helsing's Land domain, you will coordinate internal and external delivery across a complex, high-stakes defence programme, ensuring milestones are met and stakeholders remain aligned at every stage. Working alongside engineering teams, partners and defence customers, you will maintain the project roadmap, track programme performance and surface risks before they affect delivery. This is a role with genuine ownership and direct exposure to senior stakeholders, offering structured progression within one of Europe's most consequential defence technology companies.

The day-to-day Maintain and update the internal and external project roadmap, coordinating deliverables across engineering and commercial workstreams and keeping the project team aligned on priorities, milestones and customer commitments

Build and manage a project steering dashboard that tracks KPIs across engineering milestones and contractual commitments, providing timely and accurate programme performance data to senior leadership

Coordinate stakeholder interactions across internal teams, partners and defence customers, ensuring that meeting outputs, decisions and actions are clearly documented, owned and followed through

Monitor project risks and issues, surfacing challenges early and preparing structured course‑correction recommendations for programme leadership before they affect delivery timelines

Contribute to the continuous improvement of Helsing's project management function, translating lessons learned from programme delivery into repeatable practices that benefit the wider organisation

You should apply if you Have coordinated project delivery workstreams within a defence, aerospace, automotive or engineering environment, with hands‑on experience supporting cross‑functional teams across technical and commercial milestones

Have built and maintained project tracking tools, dashboards or risk registers, and are comfortable presenting programme status clearly to senior internal and external stakeholders

Hold a PMP certification or equivalent, or are actively working towards one, and can apply structured project management methodologies in fast‑moving, high‑accountability environments

Communicate with full fluency in both German and English, written and spoken, and are comfortable navigating standard defence and procurement terminology across both languages

Are willing to travel regularly to partner and customer sites and 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.