📍 Location: Paris Region (on-site)
🛰️ Sector: Next-gen European Defense
💼 Type: Full-time, Permanent
📈 Seniority: Senior
💰 Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity + Full Health Coverage
EGIDE is building a new European defense leader focused on scalable, intelligent, air-defense architectures. We develop mass-use interceptors and mission systems that combine missile-grade performance with modern embedded computing and advanced autonomy.
We are growing fast and assembling a world-class technical team driven by ambition, engineering rigor, and real operational impact. If you want to help shape the future of European defense innovation, this is the place.
About the role
The Senior HR & Admin Manager will serve as the pivotal force within our operations department, ensuring operational excellence, legal compliance, and strategic development in a complex defense environment.
This role requires a detail-oriented, proactive individual capable of managing internal office and people functions, as well as external partnerships, providing strategic insight to align operational initiatives with our company's ambitious goals.This is a key, cross-functional role, working closely with leadership and all teams.
What You’ll Do1. Administration & finance
Manage administrative and statutory obligations (URSSAF, taxes, legal declarations)
Coordinate with external accountants and oversee accounting follow-up
Manage payroll processes
2. People & office management
Coordinate recruitment processes once hires are approved
Coordinate employee onboarding
Contribute to the definition and improvement of internal HR processes
Purchase and manage work and technical equipments
3. Communication & marketing
Manage and update the company communications channels
Coordinate marketing initiatives
Coordinate trade shows and events
4. Defense compliance
Support office physical security measures
Support export control processes in coordination with leadership and compliance experts
Support security clearance and defense authorization processes
+5 years experience in HR & admin roles
Comfortable working in a startup / scale-up environment
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and trustworthy
Able to handle sensitive and confidential topics
Autonomous, proactive, and strong communicator
Fluent in English and French
Strategic role in a high-impact defense-tech startup
High level of ownership and cross-functional exposure
Fast-paced, demanding, and innovative environment
Direct interaction with founders and technical teams
Ready to Join?
If you want to work on cutting-edge defense systems, challenge yourself technically, and contribute to strategic European autonomy, we’d love to talk. Here is the recruitment process :
First phone screen
Deep dive interview
Case study
On-site final meeting
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in HR and administrative roles
- Experience working in a startup or scale-up environment
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and trustworthy
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential topics
- Autonomous and proactive working style
- Strong communication skills
- Fluency in English and French
What We Do
EGIDE is a European defense company building scalable, intelligent air-defense architectures. It develops mass-use interceptors and mission systems designed to combine missile-grade performance with modern embedded computing and advanced autonomy. Its work focuses on creating deployable, high-performance defense capabilities, positioning the company as a technology-driven provider for contemporary air-defense requirements across European security markets and critical national defense missions at scale.
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