As Technical Project Manager at Fiducial, you will lead and coordinate technical projects across product development, customer deployments, and R&D programs. You will work closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope. Your role includes strengthening project governance, maintaining visibility, and improving delivery processes as the company grows.

Responsibilities

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.
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 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.
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 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 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

Professional experience managing technical projects involving software, hardware, engineering, 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.

Nice to have

Experience in defence, aerospace, UAVs, robotics, autonomy, computer vision, AI, positioning, navigation, or 3D visualisation.
Experience in an early-stage start-up or scale-up.
Experience working in both larger organisations and smaller, fast-moving companies.
Experience building or improving a project-management, PMO, or technical delivery function.
Experience managing or mentoring project delivery team.
Experience running formal project or portfolio governance forums.
Experience with customer deployments, field testing, system integration, or hardware-intensive projects.
A recognised project-management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA, or an equivalent certification.

Benefits

An exciting role in a fast-growing deep-tech start-up with meaningful responsibility from day one.
Money of course.
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.