Technical Project Manager (m/f/d)

The Mission

As the "Master of the Aviation Schedule," this role steers the hard physical and regulatory realities of drone development safely through the Stage-Gate process. Your mission is to lead the end-to-end execution of complex VectaCore projects—synchronizing the three distinct speeds of the company (long hardware cycles, agile software sprints, and rigorous compliance documentation) from initiation to final acceptance.

Your Responsibilities

• End-to-End Stage-Gate Control: Lead the master schedule for all hardware and certification milestones (Concept, PDR, CDR, FAI), ensuring products navigate the formal development phases smoothly.

• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Define critical convergence dates where hardware and mechanics must be physically ready for software teams to test their increments, preventing siloed delays and ensuring system-level integration.

• Hardware & Supply Chain Synchronization: Monitor long lead times for physical prototype components and coordinate with the Supply Chain to ensure parts arrive exactly when needed for HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) or flight testing.

• BOM Management: Take ownership of ensuring that Bill of Materials (BOMs) are finalized and released on schedule to support procurement and manufacturing.

• Budget & Resource Control: Continuously monitor project costs (COGS and development hours) and manage engineering capacity allocation to avoid bottlenecks and ensure financial fidelity.

• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify technical, supply chain, or regulatory risks that could impact milestones or SAIL III/IV certification, implementing immediate mitigation strategies.

• Educational Background: A degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Mechatronics, or Aerospace preferred), Business Informatics, or a related field with a strong technical foundation.
  
  

• Professional Experience: 5+ years in Project Management, specifically in a Mechatronics or Avionics environment where hardware and software are developed simultaneously.
  
  

• Methodological Fluency: A deep understanding of "Hybrid" project management, comfortably bridging the gap between Waterfall-style hardware gates and Agile software cycles.
  
  

• Certifications: PMP, Prince2, or Agile certifications (Scrum/Kanban) are preferred.
  
  

• Hard Skills: Experience with milestone and critical path tracking, scope control (Change Management), and technical stakeholder communication.
  
  

• Soft Skills: High resilience and the ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams through competence and influence rather than formal disciplinary authority.

• Collaboration is our top priority. We're not looking for cogs in the machine, but rather individuals who enrich our team and whom we value as people.

• We don't believe in silos. We celebrate successes together, learn from mistakes together, and support each other – always as equals.

• Short decision-making processes and open doors are standard practice here. Your ideas won't get lost in bureaucracy; they'll be heard, discussed, and implemented.

• The tech world never stands still, and neither will you. We support your personal and professional development (certifications, conferences, courses) with a dedicated budget and paid time off.

• Design your workday to fit your life. We offer a healthy balance of remote work (home office) and productive time in our modern startup office, combined with flexible working hours.

For this position we offer a gross annual salary starting from € 64,554 on a full-time basis. Depending on your qualifications and experience, overpayment is a given for us.