EU Technical Project Lead
Development SeedRemote
Full Time
Posted June 22, 2026
€90k - €107k
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Job Description
The salary range for this role is €90,000 to €106,500 per year.
Key Responsibilities
- Own project management and product ownership on awarded projects: scope, work packages, costing, planning, backlog, and prioritisation
- Be a trusted point of contact to ESA, ECMWF, and EUMETSAT technical and contract officers to consortium partners and the wider landscape
- Contribute with delivery and field experience to our business development, supporting the proposal team on the technical approach and doing the hands-on technical writing on EU proposals
- Connect the dots across related efforts so proposals and delivery reinforce each other
Requirements
- Experience leading technical projects as a lead engineer, project manager, or product owner, in environments where you stayed close to the engineering work
- A strong technical understanding of our domain, comfortable coordinating research & development as well as operational application engineering
- Solid project management discipline: quarterly scoping and tracking, realistic costing, governance, and version control. You keep complex work moving across multiple partners and deliver on what's committed
- Experience contributing to or leading proposals, including the hands-on technical writing
- Knowledge of the European Earth observation, geospatial, and space landscape and how it operates: programmes, procurement, and stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail. Fluent in English, with additional European languages a plus
- Based in an ESA member state in Europe, for eligibility and travel and time zone compatibility
- An existing network across European partners like ESA, VITO, DLR, EOX, Telespazio, CNES et al.
- Experience writing or leading ESA or EU competitive proposals
- Familiarity with cloud-native data formats and architectures and geospatial specifications and technologies such as OGC API, STAC, TiTiler, openEO, eoAPI
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