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Helsing is a defence AI company on a mission to protect democracies by achieving technological leadership in AI and autonomous systems. As Programme Manager for the Land domain, you will run a critical workstream within a complex defence programme, owning end-to-end technical delivery while keeping stakeholders aligned and identifying commercial opportunities.
Your core responsibilities include:
• Drive end-to-end technical programme delivery using structured project management methods, owning master schedules, Gantt charts, critical path analyses, and milestone tracking.
• Navigate MoD gated review processes (DE&S reviews, CADMID cycle, ASG), ensuring all technical, qualification, and contractual entry/exit criteria are rigorously fulfilled.
• Plan and lead live customer trials, range tests, and field demonstrations, coordinating operational logistics, safety protocols, and cross-functional engineering support on-site.
• Oversee Safety Case management and qualification testing workflows, ensuring compliance with standards such as Def Stan 00-035 and MIL-STD-810.
• Manage Tier 1 and Tier 2 hardware subcontractors, fabrication partners, and component suppliers, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining strict compliance with ITAR and UK Export Control Regulations.
• Maintain programme risk and opportunity registers, surfacing technical and supply chain bottlenecks early to execute swift, structured mitigation actions.
• Provide clear, data-driven technical progress reporting and dashboards to senior leadership and technical customer counterparts.
You will own working-level relationships with customers and partners, coordinate across Helsing's engineering, commercial and operational functions, and pull the right capabilities into your workstream at the right moment. You maintain robust programme tracking, translate technical progress into clear reporting, and escalate risks before they affect delivery.
Helsing is a young, ambitious company already selected for multiple significant government contracts. The work frequently takes you to the state of the art in technical innovation—reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering an exciting phase of technological development, and Helsing is often leading historic leaps forward. Success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities.
The company actively encourages healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what you do and how you choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. You will have a say in how the company (and you) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn't work, and to take ownership of aspects of culture that you care deeply about.
REQUIREMENTS:
The posting excerpt provided does not include a complete requirements section. Based on the day-to-day responsibilities and context, candidates should expect to demonstrate: experience with complex defence or aerospace programme management; familiarity with MoD processes and gated review cycles (DE&S, CADMID, ASG); knowledge of defence standards (Def Stan 00-035, MIL-STD-810); experience managing hardware subcontractors and supply chains; understanding of ITAR and UK Export Control Regulations; strong project management and risk management skills; ability to translate technical progress into clear reporting; and experience coordinating across engineering, commercial, and operational functions. A background in defence, aerospace, or complex systems integration is likely expected.
