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Software Programme Manager – Land

Helsing· Campaigns & Programmes
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London, United KingdomFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Programme Manager for Helsing's Land domain, serving as the primary point of contact for customers and partners on a complex defence software programme. Leads iterative delivery of software-intensive capabilities, aligns agile delivery with commercial milestones, and translates programme performance into leadership reporting while surface risks and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and update programme roadmaps and steering dashboards, tracking KPIs across engineering milestones and contractual obligations to give leadership timely and accurate performance data
  • Facilitate sprint cadences, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives with software and AI engineering teams to maintain high delivery tempo
  • Translate contractual milestones into iterative product roadmaps and sprint backlogs, balancing agile software development cycles with fixed customer delivery expectations
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for customer and partner stakeholders, managing relationships across programme delivery and ensuring Helsing's commitments are met at every milestone
  • Manage commercial engagement within your programme, identifying opportunities, supporting proposals and keeping delivery progress aligned to agreed value propositions
  • Orchestrate Helsing's capabilities across engineering, commercial and operational workstreams, aligning contributors to the right challenges entirely independently over timelines spanning a month to a quarter
  • Monitor programme risks with a forward-looking approach, preparing structured course-correction recommendations for leadership before delivery timelines are affected

Qualifications

  • Have managed the end-to-end delivery of software products in B2B or B2G environments using agile methodologies, taking complex technical capabilities from development through to operational delivery
  • Bring hands-on Scrum Master experience facilitating agile ceremonies, managing backlogs, and unblocking engineering teams in practice
  • Have built and owned senior stakeholder relationships and can navigate complex, multi-party environments with clarity and commercial awareness
  • Have developed programme steering mechanisms, dashboards and risk frameworks, and can translate programme performance into clear, decision-ready reporting for senior leadership
  • Hold a PMP certification or equivalent, or are actively working towards one, and apply structured project management methodologies in high-accountability environments
  • Communicate with full fluency in English, written and spoken, are willing to travel regularly across sites (including up protracted periods working from Andover, UK), and can meet all requirements for national security clearance under applicable law

Skills

Required:Software project managementScrum MasteringStakeholder relationship managementProgramme steering & reportingPMP / equivalent certification

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • VSOP options
  • Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
  • Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
  • Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support
  • Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances
  • Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
  • Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work
Last updated Sep 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Helsing

Helsing | Artificial intelligence to protect our democracies

AI for electronic warfareAI-enabled precision mass and autonomous systemsAutonomous air dominanceMass defence manufacturingRecce strike softwareUnderwater autonomous massliquid-ai-recruiting-target
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