Location: Germany (Erding / On-Site Hybrid)
Language: German (Fluent) & English (Fluent)
Compensation: Depending on your experience, performance, and skill set 55k-70k
Project Manager (m/f/d)
Erding
Full-time
Permanent employee
Key Facts
The Mission & Role
Lateration's Mission: Our technologies help police and military forces make better decisions underpressure and operate more effectively in complex situations. Lateration develops next-generationsystems that combine field sensors, secure communications, and intelligent data processing to providereliable operational awareness in modern defence environments.
Your Mission: You are the bridge between our fast-paced engineering teams and the structured defenseprocurement world. We build entire systems, not just isolated components. You will manage our internalproduct lines as well as complex collaborative projects with external partners. Your core mandate isexecution excellence: you transform product ideas into precise requirements and drive them relentlesslyuntil they are fully realized, deployed products.
Your Mission: You are the bridge between our fast-paced engineering teams and the structured defenseprocurement world. We build entire systems, not just isolated components. You will manage our internalproduct lines as well as complex collaborative projects with external partners. Your core mandate isexecution excellence: you transform product ideas into precise requirements and drive them relentlesslyuntil they are fully realized, deployed products.
What You Will Do
• End-to-End System Execution: Manage internal product developments and external partnerprojects, driving complete, multi-layered hardware and software systems from concept to fieldreadiness.
• Idea-to-Product Transformation: Take high-level product ideas from the founders or fieldoperators and systematically transform them into clear, actionable requirements and, eventually,finished products.
• Visibility & Traceability: Build and enforce lightweight, highly effective structures .Foster absolute traceability and create clear visibility on who is working on what, ensuring the reliable delivery ofour advanced localization and communication systems.
• TheAgile/Formal Translator: Translate rigid defense requirements (e.g., CPM, V-Modell XT, MILSTDs) into actionable sprints for our teams, ensuring complete requirements traceability fromthe contract down to the code and hardware level.
• StakeholderManagement: Act as the reliable central node for internal teams, external suppliers, and government partners. Identify bottlenecks early and manage expectations proactively.
• Idea-to-Product Transformation: Take high-level product ideas from the founders or fieldoperators and systematically transform them into clear, actionable requirements and, eventually,finished products.
• Visibility & Traceability: Build and enforce lightweight, highly effective structures .Foster absolute traceability and create clear visibility on who is working on what, ensuring the reliable delivery ofour advanced localization and communication systems.
• TheAgile/Formal Translator: Translate rigid defense requirements (e.g., CPM, V-Modell XT, MILSTDs) into actionable sprints for our teams, ensuring complete requirements traceability fromthe contract down to the code and hardware level.
• StakeholderManagement: Act as the reliable central node for internal teams, external suppliers, and government partners. Identify bottlenecks early and manage expectations proactively.
Your first 5 months – What You’ll Be Proud to Have Achieved
• Taken full ownership of at least one product line or partner project, with clear, actionablerequirements traced from contract down to code and hardware level.
• Set up lightweight tracking structures that give the team and stakeholders reliable visibility onwho is working on what and where the critical path stands.
• Translated at least one set of formal defense requirements (CPM, V-Modell XT, MIL-STDs) intoactionable sprints without losing traceability.
• Identified and resolved at least one cross-team or supplier bottleneck before it affected timelineor budget.
• Become the trusted central point of contact between engineering, suppliers, and governmentpartners on your projects.
• Set up lightweight tracking structures that give the team and stakeholders reliable visibility onwho is working on what and where the critical path stands.
• Translated at least one set of formal defense requirements (CPM, V-Modell XT, MIL-STDs) intoactionable sprints without losing traceability.
• Identified and resolved at least one cross-team or supplier bottleneck before it affected timelineor budget.
• Become the trusted central point of contact between engineering, suppliers, and governmentpartners on your projects.
Who We Are Looking For
- Experience: Proven track record as a Project Manager (1-3 Years), in complex hardware/software environments—ideally within defense, aerospace, deep tech, or critical infrastructure.
- The System Thinker: You know how to bring order and momentum to multidisciplinary teams. You are highly proficient in modern tracking tools (e.g., YouTrack, Jira) to maintain visibility, but you also understand classic systems engineering principles.
- Pragmatic Authority: You are a structured executor. You cut through ambiguity, keep feature creep in check, and keep teams laser-focused on the critical path.
- Communication: Flawless German is required to navigate government authorities and formal procurement documents, alongside fluent English for our international engineering team.
- Clearance: Due to the nature of our work, you must be eligible for a German security clearance (SÜ2/Ü2). Generally, this requires German citizenship or long-term residency within EU/NATO countries.
Why Join Us?
• Mission with Real Impact: Your project execution ensures mission-critical systems reach the fieldon time and fully requirements-compliant.
• Operational Scope: You own abroad delivery mandate — from internal product lines to complex external partner projects — with direct influence on what actually ships.
• Cross-Functional Exposure: You work closely with engineering, suppliers, and governmentpartners, translating between fast-paced development and structured defense procurement.
• Strong Team & Collaboration: Hybrid working model, close collaboration and a team that values reliability over politics.
• Operational Scope: You own abroad delivery mandate — from internal product lines to complex external partner projects — with direct influence on what actually ships.
• Cross-Functional Exposure: You work closely with engineering, suppliers, and governmentpartners, translating between fast-paced development and structured defense procurement.
• Strong Team & Collaboration: Hybrid working model, close collaboration and a team that values reliability over politics.
Contact
For information and questions: recruiting@lateration.de
About us
Lateration builds technology where failure is not an option.
We don't develop theoretical concept studies: We build field-ready systems that give armed forces an unfair tactical advantage. As a VC-backed defense tech startup headquartered in Munich, we deliver the communications and positioning backbone for critical defense programs. Our hardware and software ecosystems secure operational superiority under intense electronic warfare conditions: from GPS-denied navigation and tactical mesh networks to precise friend-or-foe identification. We are scaling our team from 40 to 70+ specialists and are looking for people who take full ownership at the system level. We don't need seat-fillers — we need builders who solve complex problems and bring uncompromising functional maturity directly to the field.