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title: 'Director Global Logistics at Harmattan AI'
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# Director Global Logistics at Harmattan AI

- **Company:** [Harmattan AI](https://feeny.ai/companies/harmattan-ai)
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harmattan-ai/e5398496-52e7-4957-939d-bf40317e74b6

## Job description

## About Us

Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces. Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected.

## About the Role

Harmattan AI is scaling its industrial footprint across France, Morocco, the United States and future production locations. We are looking for a Director Global Logistics to build and lead the logistics function supporting this growth. The role owns the movement of finished products from shipment readiness through customer delivery. This includes international transport, customs, dangerous goods, export-control execution, routing, forwarders and delivery performance. It is a global leadership role with strong operational responsibility and close interfaces with Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Legal, Programme teams and international customers.

## Responsibilities

The Director Global Logistics will establish and manage a global logistics system that is compliant, scalable and operationally effective. The role will own customer delivery from release of the finished product through proof of delivery, including transport planning, Incoterms, shipment documentation, customs clearance and delivery visibility. It will also define and manage the global network of freight forwarders, carriers and customs brokers. A major part of the role is ensuring that export-control, dangerous-goods and customs requirements are integrated early into the delivery process rather than addressed only when goods are ready to ship. The Director will therefore work closely with Legal, Supply Chain and Production to anticipate licence requirements, routing constraints and transport risks. The role will establish common logistics standards, processes and KPIs across all production locations and deploy the logistics system into new factories and countries as Harmattan AI expands. The Director will also build the team and external partner network required to improve delivery reliability, lead time and logistics cost. Supply Chain owns material flow into and through Production. Global Logistics owns the controlled movement of released finished goods to the customer.

The role covers:

- Customer delivery and international transport
- Customs and trade operations
- Export-control execution
- Dangerous-goods logistics
- Forwarder, carrier and broker management
- Global routing and logistics network design
- Shipment compliance and release
- Logistics performance and cost management

Candidate Requirements

- Experienced international logistics leader who is comfortable operating in a fast-growing and highly regulated industrial environment.
- Significant experience in international logistics, preferably in defence or another highly regulated industrial environment, together with strong knowledge of customs, import/export processes, international freight, Incoterms and shipment documentation.
- Experience with dangerous goods, regulated shipments and licence-dependent export processes is important, as is experience managing freight forwarders, carriers and customs brokers.
- Strong operational judgement and ability to make clear decisions under delivery pressure while maintaining compliance. Experience building or scaling logistics processes across several countries or production locations would be a strong advantage.
- Comfortable working across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Legal and customer-facing teams and able to build processes that remain practical as the organisation grows.
- Combines strong compliance discipline with a pragmatic operational mindset.
- Anticipates problems before they affect customer delivery, creates clear ownership and is comfortable building structures where processes are still evolving.
- Able to distinguish between what is legally required, what is operationally necessary and what can be simplified, while creating a global logistics organisation that can scale with the company.

We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.

## About Harmattan AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Harmattan AI builds autonomous defense systems—including strike and surveillance drones—using AI-driven autonomy and real-time intelligence for allied forces.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, unicorn status)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Mouad M’Ghari (CEO & Co‑founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defense & autonomous systems
- **Target customers**: B2G – NATO member states, ministries of defence (UK, France, and others)
- **Mission**: Deliver scalable, sovereign AI capabilities to allied forces by building mission‑ready autonomous systems that respond in real time, adapt under pressure, and deliver an edge in contested environments. [harmattan.ai](https://harmattan.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **Platform Autonomy**: AI‑driven autonomy layer for drones, enabling real‑time decision‑making and adaptation.
- **Mission Orchestration**: Software for coordinating multiple autonomous assets (e.g., collaborative air combat).
- **Precision Strike**: Attritable strike drones with embedded AI for target engagement.
- **VSHORAD (Very Short‑Range Air Defence)**: Counter‑drone interception systems.
- **Persistent ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)**: Autonomous surveillance platforms for continuous battlefield awareness.
- **Electronic Warfare Platforms**: Systems for electronic attack and protection. [harmattan.ai](https://harmattan.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.4 billion (as of January 2026, after Series B). [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/01/12/french-startup-harmattan-ai-hits-unicorn-status-as-it-strikes-deal-with-french-aerospace-group/)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding ~$240 million ($200 M Series B led by Dassault Aviation + over $40 M prior). [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/01/12/french-startup-harmattan-ai-hits-unicorn-status-as-it-strikes-deal-with-french-aerospace-group/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Dassault Aviation (lead investor & strategic partner), multiple NATO allies as customers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Achieved unicorn status within two years of founding.
  - Awarded several “programs of record” by UK and French Ministries of Defence. [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/01/12/french-startup-harmattan-ai-hits-unicorn-status-as-it-strikes-deal-with-french-aerospace-group/)
  - Scaling industrial manufacturing of drone interception and electronic warfare platforms.
  - Headcount grew to 131 employees (Built In estimate). [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/harmattan-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Two‑layer autonomy model**: Combines platform‑level AI with mission‑orchestration software for coordinated, scalable autonomous forces.
- **Sovereign AI**: Focus on delivering non‑dependent capabilities to allied nations, differentiating from US‑centric primes.
- **Attritable systems**: Cost‑effective, expendable drones that enable mass deployment without prohibitive losses.
- **Speed to relevance**: Claims rapid iteration and deployment cycles, with conflict‑ready production. [harmattan.ai](https://harmattan.ai/)

## Strategic Focus
- Expand product offering into new operational domains (e.g., collaborative air combat with Dassault Aviation).
- Scale industrial manufacturing of drone interception, electronic warfare, and ISR platforms.
- Deepen integration of embedded AI into next‑generation air combat systems (future combat air systems). [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/01/12/french-startup-harmattan-ai-hits-unicorn-status-as-it-strikes-deal-with-french-aerospace-group/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Elite builders” who “thrive on complexity, move with urgency, and own their work end to end.” Emphasis on purpose, technical excellence, and real‑world impact. [harmattan.ai](https://harmattan.ai/careers/)
- **Values**: Tackle the hardest problems, build what matters, move at the speed of relevance, and aim to redefine frontiers. [harmattan.ai](https://harmattan.ai/careers/)
- **Work policy**: Hybrid model with a mix of remote and on‑site; many roles are in‑office at locations in Paris, Lausanne, London, Arlington (TX), Wissous, Poland, UAE, and Morocco. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/harmattan-ai)
- **Engineering culture**: Hands‑on development of mission‑critical autonomous systems; strong R&D focus across AI, computer vision, RF hardware, propulsion, and mission planning.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company highlights the opportunity to protect front‑line personnel and shape the future of autonomous defence.

## Sources
1. [harmattan.ai](https://harmattan.ai/)
2. [harmattan.ai/careers](https://harmattan.ai/careers/)
3. [harmattan.ai/open-roles](https://harmattan.ai/open-roles)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/harmattan-ai)
5. [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/01/12/french-startup-harmattan-ai-hits-unicorn-status-as-it-strikes-deal-with-french-aerospace-group/)

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