Technical Program Manager

In this role, you will bring rigorous operational structure to fast-moving, ambiguous product environments. As the Technical Program Manager for Defense Products, you'll own the internal backbone of our Short Range Strike and Medium Range Strike portfolios, translating field insights from our forward-deployed engineering team into structured, predictable product roadmaps and disciplined lifecycle management.

Your job is to be the internal anchor that makes our defense product teams successful. While forward-deployed engineers handle customer-facing technical execution, you ensure that the insights they gather in the field become actionable plans, clear backlogs, and reliable release cycles.

Your mission: Bring order, structure, and strategic clarity to Auterion's defense product portfolios. Ensure that field intelligence translates into disciplined product operations that scale.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage a portfolio of medium to large customer programs focused on autonomous robotic systems, from contract award through delivery and sustainment.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, integration, manufacturing, and testing to deliver complex HW/SW systems on time and within budget.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and risk registers using agile and traditional PM methodologies.
• Coordinate with internal teams, OEM partners, and customers to align program goals, resolve issues, and ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Oversee program financials including cost estimation, budgeting, forecasting, and tracking of financial performance.
• Prepare and lead responses to customer RFIs and RFPs, ensuring technical accuracy, strategic alignment, and competitive positioning.
• Ensure compliance with defense and aerospace standards, including export controls and cybersecurity requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement and contribute to the product and technology roadmap with feedback from program execution.
• Support logistics planning for hardware deliveries, field trials, and system deployment.

Qualifications and Skills

• MSc, MEng or MBA with strong technical background in autonomous robotic systems.
• 5+ years experience in defense, aerospace  or related industries.
• Experience and/or willing to work in a start-up environment.
• Experience in managing portfolios of medium to large sized projects consisting of solution engineering, HW-/SW delivery, customization and integration content.
• Competence in methodologies and tools for (agile) project planning and scheduling contract- and risk management.
• Experience in RFI / RFP processes and respective customer offer and proposal elaboration.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Strongly customer orientated and performance driven.
• EU Citizenship required. 

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Stock Options
• Generous holiday allowance
• Pension plan 
• Extended social security package 
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
• Wellpass membership 

About Auterion

We are building the leading software platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers. Our team is supporting the most important missions and solving the most challenging problems.

At Auterion, we bring together the sharpest minds who love to solve the hardest problems. Join a vibrant team built on innovation, openness, and excellence, where you’ll be empowered to develop ideas, collaborate across all levels, and make an impact that matters.