Project Manager

About AGANA.tech

AGANA.tech is a defense-autonomy company building rugged AI stacks and modular hardware to convert legacy land, sea and air platforms into autonomous systems. With decades of battlefield-tested experience and dozens of fielded systems, we are partnering with OEMs, defense integrators and armed forces to deliver mission-ready autonomy. agana.tech

As we scale our product deployments globally, we seek a dynamic Project Manager to ensure programs stay on schedule, within scope and budget, while coordinating across hardware, software, integration, test and field deployment teams.

Role Summary

The Project Manager will lead key autonomy-integration projects from definition through deployment and sustainment. You will act as the central point of coordination between engineering, operations, integration, field teams, customers and internal stakeholders. Your mission: deliver complex autonomy-kit integrations on land/sea/air platforms with excellence, meeting schedule, quality and mission-critical requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain detailed project plans (scope, schedule, resources, milestones, risks) for autonomy-integration programs.
Coordinate across multi-discipline teams: perception, navigation, control software, rugged hardware, vehicle integration, test & evaluation, field deployment.
Track progress and status, escalate issues, manage dependencies, ensure timely corrective action when needed.
Identify, document and proactively manage project risks, including technical, schedule, supplier, regulatory, field-environment factors.
Facilitate regular status reviews, stakeholder communications (internal leadership, OEM partners, defense integrators, customers).
Drive operationalisation: handover to field-deployment teams, support commissioning, ensure lessons-learned are captured and fed back into process.
Monitor budget, resource utilisation and vendor/supplier performance.

Requirements:

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, related field.
Minimum of 3-5 years of project management experience in complex systems-integration environments (defense, aerospace, robotics, autonomy, automotive) with multi-discipline teams.
Demonstrated success managing hardware-software integration projects, ideally rugged / field-deployed systems.
Strong familiarity with systems engineering lifecycle, hardware integration, software development processes, testing/validation phases.
Excellent project-planning, scheduling (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Confluence) and resource-management skills.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities—results-oriented, self-starter, highly organised.