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What you'll do:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap Development:
• Define and execute product strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives and customer needs.
• Conduct business case analyses to guide investment decisions.
• Develop product feature requirements and pricing models based on market events, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence.
• Create and maintain product documentation and specifications, serving as a guide for business and technical teams to build, deliver and market the capability.
• Customer Engagement:
• Leverage operational experience to translate mission needs into technical requirements and user-centric solutions.
• Partner with field support personnel to gather product feedback and develop product feature requirements that drive continuous product refinement.
• Serve as the primary advocate for Hivemind Solutions in Europe, acting as the bridge between development teams, operators, program managers, and stakeholders.
• Engage with government sponsors and B2B partners to gather insights and validate product direction.
• Engineering & Cross-Functional Execution:
• Establish clear product goals, key success metrics, and key performance metrics and measure progress continuously.
• Partner with Chief Engineers and Technical Program Managers to ensure product designs meet customer timelines and business requirements.
• Communicate strategy and goals to internal and external stakeholders to drive support.
• Financial & Cost Management:
• Work closely with Finance and Business Leadership to set and achieve product financial targets.
• Lead margin optimization efforts through efforts including design improvements, make vs buy decisions, new technology introductions.
• Market & Technology Awareness:
• Stay current on political and business trends within Europe.
• Monitor defense industry innovations and emerging technologies related to launched effects, autonomy, and robotics to forecast future needs, identify opportunities to integrate new technologies and to improve product performance.
• Partner with Business Development leads to develop feature requirements and pricing models based on market events, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy:
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including senior military leaders, program managers, and technical experts.
• Represent the product during technical exchanges, capability demonstrations, and stakeholder briefings.
• Support business development by articulating product value, mission relevance, and technical differentiation.

Required qualifications:

• Familiarity with development methodologies for integrated hardware/software products
• 3+ years of experience in defense technology, autonomy, or related domains.
• Proven experience achieving high-stakes outcomes within DoD or IC environments.
• Proven ability to lead product strategy and development from concept to deployment.
• Experience with defense or government stakeholders, ideally within mission-critical roles.
• 5 + years relevant military experience or operational expertise.
• Strong communication skills—able to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, science, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications:

• Active TS with SCI eligibility clearance.
• Advanced degree in a relevant technical or business field (MBA, Systems Engineering).
• Familiarity with real-time processing and sensor integration on autonomous systems or UAS payloads.
• Experience in cross-functional leadership within defense technology development.

120000 - 180000 GBP a year