Technical Project Manager
HybridDelft, South Holland, The Netherlands
Job Summary
Lead technical projects across product development, roadmap implementation, customer demonstrations, deployments, system integrations, R&D, and partner-funded initiatives. Translate objectives into clear scope, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, and delivery plans while coordinating software, hardware, testing, procurement, and operational deployment. Plan and coordinate internal product and prototype development activities, supporting engineering teams in structuring sprints, integration, and test cycles. Coordinate technical and non-technical requirements for customer pilots and integrations, aligning engineering, operations, and external partners around a common delivery plan. Surface delivery risks, resource constraints, and cross-project dependencies to leadership, maintaining project plans and status reports in Notion. Organize project meetings, technical syncs, and stakeholder updates to ensure timely decision-making and escalation.
Required Qualifications
- Professional experience managing technical projects involving software, hardware, engineering, system integration, or technical deployment
- A completed technical degree, such as Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Physics, Systems Engineering, or another relevant discipline
- Experience developing project plans, milestones, dependencies, risk assessments, delivery forecasts, and stakeholder updates
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical teams and external stakeholders
- Sufficient technical understanding to discuss system development, prototypes, interfaces, integration, testing, validation, and deployment with engineers
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage several projects and changing priorities simultaneously
- A proactive and assertive working style
- A self-starting mindset and the ability to make progress without detailed instruction
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to translate technical challenges into project, delivery, resource, or stakeholder implications
- A calm and structured approach when timelines, requirements, or priorities change
- Experience with project and collaboration tools such as Notion, Jira, Slack, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with agile development and project-management methodologies
- Fluent English, both spoken and written
- Full-time availability for 40 hours per week
- A genuine interest in defence technology, drones, autonomous systems, and their operational applications
- WE CANNOT PROVIDE VISA SPONSORSHIP
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in defence, aerospace, UAVs, robotics, autonomy, computer vision, AI, positioning, navigation, or 3D visualisation
- Experience in an early-stage start-up or scale-up
- Experience working in both larger organisations and smaller, fast-moving companies
- Experience building or improving a project-management, PMO, or technical delivery function
- Experience managing or mentoring project delivery team
- Experience running formal project or portfolio governance forums
- Experience with customer deployments, field testing, system integration, or hardware-intensive projects
- A recognised project-management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA, or an equivalent certification
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