Air Programme Manager, Defence Tech & Impact

Helsing AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

VSOP options

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Health & wellness

Social

Enhanced parental leave

Family support

Job summary

Helsing AI in the UK is seeking a Programme Manager, Air, to own the delivery plan for its UK air programmes, align partners and defence customers, and translate operational needs into engineering priorities.

You will brief senior stakeholders, manage milestones and risks, and deputise for the Senior Programme Manager as needed, bringing operational air-power judgement to design and trials.

Qualifications

• Have served in an operational air-power role and understand how combat air missions are planned, commanded and executed.
• Have delivered a complex programme or workstream with external industry or government partners, and can point to capability that reached the user because of your coordination and guidance.
• Translate operational requirements into technical priorities, and technical constraints into language senior audiences can act on.
• Understand UK defence acquisition, operational test and evaluation, and airworthiness processes.
• Communicate credibly in front of senior defence and industry stakeholders, including at short notice.
• Hold, or are eligible to hold, UK security clearance and are based in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Act as the daily link between Helsing and partner engineering teams, resolving interface and integration blockers before they affect trial or flight dates.
• Manage customer relationships at working level, converting operational requirements and user feedback into a prioritised backlog that engineering teams can act on.
• Own the delivery plan, milestones and cross-partner dependencies, keeping a single, current view of progress, risk and critical path.
• Brief senior military and industry stakeholders on programme status, risk and capability, and deputise for the Senior Programme Manager when needed.
• Bring operational air-power judgement into design and trial decisions, explaining operational context to engineers in practical terms.
• Track the delivery of capability to the user, ensuring each milestone moves the programme closer to deployment.

Skills

Air power experience

Programme delivery

Stakeholder management

Security clearance

UK-based

Job description

Helsing AI in the UK is seeking a Programme Manager, Air, to own the delivery plan for its UK air programmes, align partners and defence customers, and translate operational needs into engineering priorities.

You will brief senior stakeholders, manage milestones and risks, and deputise for the Senior Programme Manager as needed, bringing operational air-power judgement to design and trials.