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About the Role
Shape how Europe's governments, parliaments and armed forces understand autonomy in defence, and build the function that earns SE3 their trust. As Head of Government Affairs & Communications, you'll own and lead SE3's policy, public affairs and communications function. You'll set the strategy that shapes how governments, parliaments, armed forces and the press across Germany and Europe understand SE3, and build the team and relationships that turn that positioning into institutional trust and political standing. You'll work directly with our founders and act as one of the company's senior voices.
Responsibilities
- Own SE3's government affairs and communications strategy, setting priorities across policy, public affairs and press.
- Hold senior institutional relationships, in particular with the German parliament, and represent SE3 with governments and armed forces.
- Shape SE3's positions on the security, procurement and regulatory questions that will define the operating environment for autonomous systems in Europe.
- Lead SE3's thought-leadership agenda so the company helps set the terms of the European debate on autonomy and AI in defence.
- Lead SE3's most significant political and press engagements as a senior voice of the company.
- Build, lead and develop the government affairs and communications team as the function scales.
Requirements
- Takes ownership of outcomes and removes obstacles without waiting for direction.
- Turns discussions into clear decisions and decisions into deliverables.
- Holds self and team to a consistently high standard.
- Speaks native-level German and has full professional fluency in English, written and spoken.
- Must be eligible to work on defence-related projects and, where required, obtain the relevant security clearance.
Skills
- Government affairs
- Political communications
- Strategic communications
- Ministry experience
- Parliamentary experience
- Comparable institution experience
- Function or team building
- Senior stakeholder relationship management
- Established network in the Bundestag
- Established network in the Federal Ministry of Defence
- Established network in European institutions
- Defence policy experience
- Security policy experience
- Technology policy experience
- Experience representing a company in industry associations
- Experience representing a company at major security conferences
- Crisis communications experience
Location
- Germany
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior experience in government affairs, political or strategic communications, or in a ministry, parliament or comparable institution.
Education Level
- Degree in political science, international relations, security studies, communications, public policy or an adjacent discipline.
- Postgraduate qualification is welcome.
Benefits
- Employee participation programme
- High-quality and modern toolset
- Flat hierarchy
- Skilled, driven team
- Best-in-class AI tools and agents
- Unlimited access to the latest AI advancements
- 31 Paid Days Off
- Free membership to gyms, yoga, and wellness through EGYM Wellpass
- 2 company retreats per year
- Mentorship
About the Company
- SE3 Labs builds spatial intelligence and autonomy software for unmanned systems.
- We combine 3D computer vision, state estimation and AI to help autonomous platforms perceive their surroundings, know where they are and operate when GPS and other sensors become unreliable.
- Defence is a core application of our work today.
- We are growing to a team of 100+ people.
- Join at a stage where you can shape our Government Affairs & Communications team, help build the team and grow your responsibilities as the company expands.
- Our founding team's research has received more than 90,000 citations.
- You will work closely with technical founders and engineers with deep experience in computer vision and autonomous systems, turning that research depth into systems that work in the field.