Product Manager - Autonomy

Job Description

As Product Manager for Autonomy, you will shape the autonomous decision chain, from mission planning and configuration to the decisions that guide an engagement, while keeping a human meaningfully in control.

You will define how autonomy is configured and trusted, working with product design, engineering and operational experts to shape how operators set boundaries before a mission and supervise decisions during it. Your work will help make air defence decisions at machine speed while keeping autonomous behaviour understandable, accountable and safe.

Responsibilities

• Set the roadmap for the autonomous decision chain, covering mission planning, configuration and the decisions that guide an engagement
• Work with operators and domain experts to translate operational needs into tasking concepts and human autonomy teaming requirements
• Partner with engineering and product design to create clear interfaces for configuring autonomy, supervising its behaviour and maintaining situational awareness
• Define how operators set autonomy boundaries before a mission and review decisions during it, translating AI capabilities into decisions on scope and operator interaction
• Align internal teams, partners and customers on product direction, priorities and trade-offs, communicating clearly with technical and operational audiences

Requirements

• Have taken complex software products from discovery through delivery, ideally in real-time systems, operator-facing interfaces, AI or mission-critical workflows
• Translate user and operational needs into clear, high-impact product requirements
• Work closely with engineering and design to make considered trade-offs across product scope, architecture and user experience
• Assess how autonomous decisions affect the wider system and bring structure to complex or unfamiliar problems
• Communicate fluently in English and German, and are based in or willing to relocate to Munich, with flexibility to travel to operator, partner and customer sites

Nice to Have

• Understand autonomy, human autonomy teaming or manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) concepts
• Have worked with AI decision-making in real-time systems, or in defence or aerospace, including alongside military operators

Benefits

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances
• Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work