Learning and Enablement Manager

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

Reporting to Helsing's People Operations Learning Lead, you will own the day-to-day design and delivery of our onboarding, leadership, and learning programmes, turning strategy into effective experiences on the ground as we scale rapidly.

Where the Learning Lead sets the strategy and underlying infrastructure, you will drive execution and continuous iteration: hosting and facilitating in-person onboarding in Munich, keeping our learning resources sharp and current, and ensuring our programmes run smoothly for the many stakeholders across the business who depend on them.

You will be one of the first people new joiners meet during their first days at Helsing, and a key part of the team ensuring the systems behind that experience — content, scheduling, resources, feedback — operate seamlessly. Alongside onboarding, you will build content and facilitation materials that support our broader leadership and learning initiatives, with a direct impact on how quickly and effectively new hires and future leaders are set up to succeed.

The day-to-day

• Deliver Helsing's in-person onboarding programme in Munich, bringing our mission, culture, and operating model to life for every new cohort, and travel to other European hubs as needed

• Coordinate programme logistics, managing cohort scheduling and partnering with hiring managers, Security, IT, and People Operations to ensure every cohort runs seamlessly

• Support new joiners and managers as the go-to point of contact throughout onboarding and probation, answering questions and proactively unblocking issues

• Maintain and expand our knowledge base, keeping onboarding and learning resources in Confluence structured, accurate, and effortless to navigate

• Build learning materials, designing and refining leadership and learning content in partnership with internal subject matter experts

• Align cross-functionally with People Business Partners and Talent Acquisition to keep the onboarding calendar, capacity, and content matched to hiring volume across divisions

• Measure and iterate, collecting and analysing onboarding and engagement data, including pulse surveys, to spot bottlenecks and improve delivery

• Support self-serve learning, building and supporting adoption of self-serve resources and tracking engagement and feedback on content quality

You should apply if you

• Facilitate and present onboarding sessions with clarity, bringing Helsing's mission, culture, and operating model to life for new joiners

• Coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder programmes and keep them on track, from cohort logistics to cross-functional alignment

• Analyse qualitative and quantitative feedback, including survey data, to identify trends and shape continuous improvement

• Build, structure, and maintain internal knowledge bases and documentation such as Confluence or Notion

• Communicate clearly and build effective working relationships across technical and non-technical teams

• Speak German and English fluently, and are based in or willing to relocate to Munich for regular in-person facilitation

Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

Nice to Have

• Support or design leadership or first-time manager enablement initiatives

• Familiarity with modern HRIS platforms (e.g. HiBob) and engagement survey tooling

• Experience working in a fast-scaling tech environment, or a regulated/defence setting with strict compliance and security requirements

• Experience working with Learning Management Systems (LMS) or digital learning authoring tools

• Background in organisational psychology, adult learning, or leadership development

Join Helsing and work with world-leading experts in their fields 

• 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

• We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about

What we offer

• 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: regularly 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

These are the core benefits across all locations, there may be additional benefits in certain locations.

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.

  Helsing's Candidate Privacy and Confidentiality Regime can be found here.