📍 Location: Paris Region (on-site)
🛰️ Sector: Next-gen European Defense
💼 Type: Full-time, Permanent
📈 Seniority: Senior
💰 Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity + Full Health Coverage
About EGIDE
EGIDE is building a new European defense leader focused on scalable, intelligent, air-defense architectures. We develop mass-use interceptors and mission systems that combine missile-grade performance with modern embedded computing and advanced autonomy.
We are growing fast and assembling a world-class technical team driven by ambition, engineering rigor, and real operational impact. If you want to help shape the future of European defense innovation, this is the place.
About the role
The HR & Admin Manager will serve as the pivotal force within our operations department, ensuring operational excellence, legal compliance, and strategic development in a complex defense environment.
This role requires a detail-oriented, proactive individual capable of managing internal office and people functions, as well as external partnerships, providing strategic insight to align operational initiatives with our company's ambitious goals.This is a key, cross-functional role, working closely with leadership and all teams.
What You’ll Do
- Administration & finance
- Manage administrative and statutory obligations (URSSAF, taxes, legal declarations)
- Coordinate with external accountants and oversee accounting follow-up
- Manage payroll processes
- People & office management
- Coordinate recruitment processes once hires are approved
- Coordinate employee onboarding
- Contribute to the definition and improvement of internal HR processes
- Purchase and manage work and technical equipments
- Communication & marketing
- Manage and update the company communications channels
- Coordinate marketing initiatives
- Coordinate trade shows and events
- Defense compliance
- Support office physical security measures
- Support export control processes in coordination with leadership and compliance experts
- Support security clearance and defense authorization processes
You are a Fit If You Have:
- Proven experience in HR & admin roles
- Comfortable working in a startup / scale-up environment
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and trustworthy
- Able to handle sensitive and confidential topics
- Autonomous, proactive, and strong communicator
- Fluent in English and French
Why Join Us
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Strategic role in a high-impact defense-tech startup
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High level of ownership and cross-functional exposure
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Fast-paced, demanding, and innovative environment
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Direct interaction with founders and technical teams
Ready to Join?
If you want to work on cutting-edge defense systems, challenge yourself technically, and contribute to strategic European autonomy, we’d love to talk. Here is the recruitment process :
- First phone screen
- Deep dive interview
- Case study
- On-site final meeting
