THE ROLE
At Critical Software, project managers don't just track timelines: they carry the weight of decisions that matter. You'll own the full delivery lifecycle of complex, international projects in industries where failure is not an option.
This is a role for someone who leads with clarity: the work and the people behind it. Building the kind of team culture where accountability, trust, and growth aren't aspirations, but the default.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Provide strong leadership, guiding cross-functional and multicultural teams with confidence and clarity.
- Contribute to a vision-driven environment, demonstrating ambition and a desire to drive meaningful, positive change.
- Lead end-to-end project delivery, ensuring effective management of scope, timelines, budget, quality, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
- Manage international projects, ensuring alignment across regions and stakeholders.
- Make informed and timely decisions, enabling smooth project progress and issue resolution.
- Ensure 360° communication, maintaining clear, consistent, and assertive communication with clients, teams, and senior management.
- Deliver according to various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
- Mentor and support large project teams, fostering professional growth and promoting a culture of excellence.
- Maintain a proactive, energetic approach, always moving towards solutions.
- Support Business Development (BizDev) activities when needed, including upselling opportunities and maintaining strong client relationships.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Must have:
- 7+ years managing complex projects (5 minimum)
- Experience in Railway, Aerospace, or Defence
- Strong leadership and decision-making capabilities, with a genuine commitment to the growth of the people you lead
- Excellent communication: clear, structured, and assertive
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset
- Experience working with multiple project methodologies
- Demonstrated experience managing international projects
- Commitment to continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- Fluent English (C1/C2)
Nice to have:
- Actively uses AI tools in day-to-day work: from decision-making to project management
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Background in software development
- Worldwide work experience
- French and/or German)
THE HIRING PROCESS
Screening call: A quick chat with our Attraction team about you and the role.
1st Interview: Your experience as a project manager, how you work, and what you've built.
2nd Interview: A case study and a deeper conversation about how you think and decide.
Typically 1–2 weeks for a first contact.
WHAT WE OFFER
We invest in the people who make it all possible. Here's what that looks like in practice.
- Private health insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (mental health, legal, financial support)
- Home office support
- Extra holidays: 2 additional days after year one, more as time goes on
- Extra parental leave: 2 additional months fully paid
- Gradual return-to-work support: We’ll help you ease back from long breaks
- Sabbatical programme for long-term employees
- Training, mentorship, and growth opportunities: we'll invest in where you want to go next
ABOUT CRITICAL SOFTWARE
Every day we work on missions across industries as diverse as aerospace, space, defence, transport, telecoms, government, energy, finance, and healthcare. Building better and safer isn’t a slogan. It’s how we show up in the world.
Critical Software is a proud Benefit Corporation: a for-profit business legally committed to positive impact on society, workers, the community, and the environment — in addition to profit.
We are an equal opportunity workplace. If you need any adjustment in your recruitment process to show us what you can do, please let us know.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years experience managing complex projects
- Experience in Medical Devices, Railway, Aerospace, Defence, or Energy industries
- Strong leadership and decision-making capabilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience managing large teams
- Experience managing international projects
- Commitment to continuous learning
- Experience with multiple project methodologies
- Fluency in English
- Experience with innovative technologies
- Worldwide work experience
- Background in Software
- Additional languages: French and/or German
What We Do
At Critical Software, we believe our people are the core of who we are. Their talent, diversity, and ability to go beyond expectations shape everything we do. Working at Critical is about being part of a community built on purpose, values, and collaboration. Our commitment to engineering excellence makes us a trusted partner for some of the world’s leading companies in Aerospace, Railway, Medical Systems, Energy, Finance, and many more. We believe that technology is nothing without a passion to use it for good. That’s why we engineer change, helping to build a better and safer world through trusted and transformative technologies. Since 1998, we’ve helped companies in global industries like aerospace, transport, energy, healthcare and finance. Across the world, people and organisations depend on what we do. And we like that. Because it means that technology isn’t just our business. It’s our chance to help change the world. More than a company, we are a community. Our togetherness, culture and values are the foundations of who we are and what we do. We are proud to hold Benefit Corporation status, reflecting our commitment to sustainability, transparency, and business for good. We’re also one of only a few tech companies in the world to have both our waterfall and agile software development processes rated at CMMI® Level 5. Just as important as our technical expertise is our strong company culture, which guides us in everything we do. We’re recruiting for all of our locations right now and, if you’d like to find out more, please take a look at the careers section of our website.
