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FIDUCIAL

Technical Project Manager

FIDUCIAL

Technical Project Manager leading technical projects in defense technology at a deep-tech startup. Focused on UAV situational-awareness software and product development efforts.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeDelft • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing technical projects involving software, hardware, and system integration, with strong skills in project planning, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication. Proficient in coordinating multidisciplinary teams and adapting to changing project requirements while maintaining clear visibility and governance.

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Technical Project ManagementProject Planning and CoordinationStakeholder CommunicationAgile MethodologiesTechnical Understanding

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Hard Skills
Project PlanningRisk AssessmentSystem IntegrationTechnical DeploymentPrototype DevelopmentEngineering CoordinationDelivery ForecastingMilestone TrackingDependency ManagementTechnical Documentation
Soft Skills
Organizational SkillsProactive Working StyleClear CommunicationAdaptabilityInitiative
Tools & Technologies
NotionJiraSlackProject Management ToolsCollaboration Platforms
Industry Keywords
Defence TechnologyDronesAutonomous SystemsR&DEngineering

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Deliver technical projects
  • Lead technical projects across product development, product roadmap implementation, customer demonstrations, deployments, system integrations, R&D, and partner-funded initiatives.
  • Translate objectives into clear project scope, activities, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, and delivery plans.
  • Adapt your level of involvement to the needs of each project, taking full ownership where required or supporting technical leads and other project owners.
  • Coordinate projects involving software, hardware, testing, procurement, integration, and operational deployment.
  • Maintain momentum, follow through on commitments, and ensure that actions are completed.
  • Coordinate product and prototype development
  • Plan and coordinate internal product and prototype development activities.
  • Support engineering teams in structuring roadmap implementation, development sprints, integration activities, and test cycles.
  • Maintain visibility of progress, blockers, technical dependencies, and required decisions.
  • Ensure that planning supports engineering execution without introducing unnecessary administrative overhead.
  • Coordinate customer deployments and integrations
  • Coordinate technical and non-technical requirements for customer demonstrations, pilots, integrations, and deployments.
  • Align engineering, operations, hardware, logistics, customers, and external partners around a common delivery plan.
  • Manage dependencies between internal teams and external integration partners.
  • Coordinate preparation, testing, validation, deployment readiness, and follow-up activities.
  • Identify delivery risks early and drive timely resolution or escalation.
  • Strengthen project governance
  • Surface delivery risks, resource constraints, cross-project dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership intervention.
  • Track actions and ensure that decisions and escalations are followed through.
  • Help clarify project ownership, decision rights, reporting expectations, and escalation paths.
  • Give leadership a reliable overview of project status and portfolio health.
  • Maintain project visibility and communication
  • Maintain project plans, milestones, risks, decisions, and actions in Notion.
  • Organise and facilitate project meetings, technical syncs, reviews, and stakeholder updates.
  • Prepare clear meeting notes, project summaries, status reports, and decision records.
  • Keep stakeholders informed without creating unnecessary meetings or reporting.
  • Connect engineering, product, operations, commercial teams, leadership, and external stakeholders.
  • Coordinate hardware and operational dependencies
  • Coordinate procurement, delivery schedules, availability, and setup of hardware needed for development, testing, demonstrations, and deployments.
  • Align equipment, logistics, test locations, personnel, and external dependencies with project timelines.
  • Ensure operational requirements are identified early enough to avoid preventable delivery delays.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Professional experience managing technical projects involving software, hardware, engineering, R&D, 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. You take initiative, ask for missing information, challenge unclear assumptions, and consistently follow up.
  • 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 25 vacation days per year.
  • Reimbursement of eligible travel expenses.
  • A company laptop.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • The option to work from home up to two days per week when project and operational requirements allow.
  • The opportunity to work in an international team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving complex real-world problems.
  • Freedom and autonomy in how you structure your work and implement improvements.
  • Real ownership of the projects and processes you lead.
  • The opportunity to experiment, iterate, learn quickly, and improve how the company operates.
  • An open, informal, and no-nonsense culture with short communication lines.