About this role
## What we’re looking for
We’re looking for a highly driven Associate Product Manager to help shape and advance the product strategy for our unmanned systems portfolio. In this role, you’ll support defining requirements, drive roadmap execution for your subsystem, and bring engineering, business development, and customer stakeholders onto the same page. This is a hands-on role where you will directly influence how our products are built, positioned, and fielded: ensuring that every system we deliver meets the speed, reliability, and mission-critical standards our defense and security customers depend on.
## The day-to-day
- Roadmap ownership: build the roadmap and guide the development of a subsystem or group of features within a product line
- Decision readiness: prepare product documentation and management decision meetings
- Customer insight: interact with operators, conduct customer research, and validate our products in user testing
- Market awareness: monitor the market and competitors relevant to your assigned features and components
- Cross-functional delivery: work closely with engineering and business development to turn user needs into shipped features
You should apply if you
- are kicking off your career in product management, with first hands-on experience from internships, projects, or a first job, ideally in unmanned, robotic, or safety-critical systems
- can translate highly technical material into clear value propositions for both engineers and executives
- work well across engineering, business development, and customers, and you know when to say no
- are drawn to the defense domain and ready to learn military and environmental qualification standards for unmanned systems
- take responsibility for outcomes and drive topics forward without waiting for direction
- hold a degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, bachelor’s minimum, master’s preferred
- speak English fluently (min. B2/C1), German is a plus
Nice to haves
- Defense product background, experience developing or operating unmanned systems
- Certification experience in dual-use or safety-critical qualification processes
- Advanced degree: Master's or higher in Engineering, ML/AI, Robotics, or a related field
What we offer
- Real impact & ownership: Shape high-tech defense systems and take responsibility from day one
- Mission-driven environment: Work on technologies that matter for European security and sovereignty
- Competitive package: Competitive salary, EGYM Wellpass, corporate benefits, and equity options aligned with role and level
- Deep tech environment: Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge drone technology and real operational use cases
- Grow fast: Steep learning curve for juniors, strategic influence and leadership opportunities for seniors
- Startup mindset meets defence innovation: flat hierarchies, fast decisions, and space for your ideas.
- Flexibility: Flexible hours, remote options, and relocation support
- Strong team: International, driven colleagues and a culture built on exchange, trust, and shared success