Director of Product – Platform

• Own product strategy and the portfolio roadmap across all product lines
• Decide what becomes shared platform functionality and what remains customer-specific engineering
• Build and lead the product organisation by hiring and developing Product Managers
• Align Product Managers on standards for discovery, prioritisation and delivery
• Define metrics and measurement logic for product effectiveness and customer activity and usage
• Own discovery with the Government Development team and customers
• Translate customer and government requirements into product decisions
• Prioritise competing customer, tender and platform demands
• Defend prioritisation decisions to customers, the team and management
• Plan deliverable releases with Engineering and QA
• Balance release speed, quality and platform capability
• Assess market, competitive and technology developments in the defence and simulation space
• Report to the COO of Orcrist
• Work directly with Engineers, the Government Development team and customers

• 8+ years of product management experience with complex technical products, preferably in the Analytics or SAAS-space, including several years leading Product Managers or a product organisation
• Proven track record of delivering products from discovery through to customer rollout with nameable outcomes
• Experience with B2B or B2G products in long, formal procurement cycles and demanding enterprise or public sector customers
• Experience holding platform decisions against customer-specific exceptions and explaining the commercial consequence of both paths
• Ability to decide with incomplete information, take ownership, and work in an environment without mature processes
• Excellent communication skills in German and English across various hierarchy levels
• Willingness to travel to customers approximately 10–20%
• Authorization to work in Germany
• Experience in defence, GovTech, data fusion; own military or law enforcement background is an advantage
• Experience with data analytics platforms
• Experience with on-premise, offline or air-gapped products
• Experience building a product organisation in a startup or scale-up

• Remote-first, Germany-wide: Work from wherever you do your best work, with regular team gatherings in Berlin and other off-site locations
• Flexible working hours
• Personal home-office equipment budget
• 30 days of vacation
• Personal and professional development investment
• Performance bonuses tied to agreed objectives and key results
• Welcome goodie bag
• Summer and Christmas parties and regular team gatherings
• Work on challenges with tangible impact on public safety and national security