Team Lead - Training and Mission Success - International
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About the role
Who We Are
Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.
As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.
We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.
The role
As a Team Lead for the internationally aligned Training and Mission Success Specialist (MSS) team, you will sit at the intersection of operational delivery, customer success, and tactical expertise.
You will own the planning and execution of field deployments and training courses across all international markets outside Germany, acting not only as the leader of small high-functioning x-discipline teams, but as the primary business development interface during deployed customer-facing engagements.
Alongside your project management and leadership responsibilities, you will bring hands-on authority as a HX-2 tactics instructor, ensuring every deployment reflects the highest standards of operational and tactical excellence. This role carries real weight: your decisions directly shape the customer experience of Helsing and the capabilities we build and deploy.
The day-to-day
Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.
As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.
We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.
The role
As a Team Lead for the internationally aligned Training and Mission Success Specialist (MSS) team, you will sit at the intersection of operational delivery, customer success, and tactical expertise.
You will own the planning and execution of field deployments and training courses across all international markets outside Germany, acting not only as the leader of small high-functioning x-discipline teams, but as the primary business development interface during deployed customer-facing engagements.
Alongside your project management and leadership responsibilities, you will bring hands-on authority as a HX-2 tactics instructor, ensuring every deployment reflects the highest standards of operational and tactical excellence. This role carries real weight: your decisions directly shape the customer experience of Helsing and the capabilities we build and deploy.
The day-to-day
- Lead end-to-end project management of international field deployments and training courses, ensuring on-time, on-standard delivery across multiple simultaneous engagements globally – from the High-North to the Indo-Asia Pacific and beyond
- Have held a leadership position managing complex field operations and/or training programmes in high-stakes, time-critical environments, ideally within a military or defence context
- Have experience in the design, development, and implementation of NATO or equivalent training programmes, including experience of training design frameworks such as: UK DSAT; US SAT / ISD (ADDIE); NATO Systems Approach to Training; and NSIQC
- Are enthused by the prospect of:
- regular overseas deployments with the requirement to operate in field conditions alongside military our partners for 2-3 week periods
- leading and working alongside diverse and exceptionally proficient forward deployed technical engineering colleagues
- training and enabling military users to rapidly develop proficiency on our systems, and to support them beyond initial training on their exercises and operational deployments
- Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns
- The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world
- Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward
- In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts
- Competitive salary and 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 (Nilo.health)
- Social: regular 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
- A hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you will be building tooling and applications to be used across the company. This is your opportunity to learn our tech stack, explore the company, and learn how we get things done - all whilst working with other engineering teams from day one (Specifically for engineering and AI)
Helsing is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.
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SOC 3574 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~116k in sampleP25 £30kP75 £45k
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