Project Manager
About the job
- An engineering diploma or equivalent Bac+5 degree with a specialization in mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, software, or robotics is required.
- Significant experience in project management and product industrialization is required.
- Multidisciplinary knowledge of the constraints involved in mechanics, electronics, and software is required.
- Strong interpersonal skills are required to manage client relationships, lead project activities, and manage suppliers.
- Strong skills in project scoping, management, monitoring, and reporting are required.
- Natural leadership and a strong team spirit are required.
- English proficiency is required.
- Participate in pre-sales activities with sales staff, program managers, and subject-matter experts.
- Participate in estimating the projects handled by the team, including quality, cost, and schedule.
- Lead a team of engineers through prototyping, design, testing, and validation phases, including POC, EVT, DVT, and PVT.
- Ensure product quality, compliance with established processes, and adherence to applicable health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Manage projects through the serial-production lifecycle.
- Participate in, establish, and conduct product life-cycle analyses to improve products' environmental and corporate social responsibility impacts.
- Implement eco-design analysis guidelines in product development.
- Identify, qualify, and ensure effective supplier management.
- Lead the transfer to production from pre-series through serial production.
- Manage design reviews and Design for X analyses, including DFA, DFM, and DFT.
About the company
Kickmaker helps high-tech companies turn prototypes into mass-produced products. It offers turnkey industrialization or stage-specific support across the full product lifecycle—design strategy, industrialization, production monitoring, quality control, and lifecycle management—for industries like drones, robotics, mobility, electrification, medical devices, embedded AI, IoT, and consumer electronics. It operates through four agencies (Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Shenzhen) plus urban micro-factories and leverages a community of about 150 engineers to deliver localized, scalable manufacturing. Its goal is to bridge prototype development and mass production by making high-tech products manufacturable at scale and ready for market deployment.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$5.5M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2016
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kickmaker opened a tri-continental network and new U.S. facility by August 2026.
- Kickmaker published fresh 2026 robotics and AI-physicality content, signaling active demand generation.
- Medical and robotics partnerships in 2025 reached surgeons and industrial buyers, strengthening credibility.
What critics are saying
- Services are commoditizing as Etteplan, Apside, and similar firms chase the same projects.
- Hardware startups still cut spending fast; one funding winter hits utilization within quarters.
- Kickmaker owns little proprietary product; clients can internalize industrialization and squeeze margins.
What makes Kickmaker unique
- Kickmaker spans prototype-to-series industrialization across seven offices and urban micro-factories.
- Kickmaker keeps client IP in-house while handling design, software, data, and architecture.
- Kickmaker specializes in hardware-heavy categories: robotics, medical devices, electrification, drones, and embedded AI.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Paid Sick Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan