Forward Strategist

Forward Strategists at Helsing sit at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and Operations. Where engineering builds the system, the Forward Strategist works alongside it: landing in ambiguity, understanding the technical shape of the problem, and building a path through it that engineering, product, and operations teams can execute against.

What you'll do

• Take a poorly-defined technical or product problem, establish what it actually is, and build a structured path to resolution, setting direction through the ambiguity
• Deliver on that path end-to-end, prioritising ruthlessly, working across product, engineering, operations, commercial, hardware, and legal domains, and owning the outcome until it ships
• Make sound, well-evidenced calls on technical and product trade-offs under uncertainty, commit to them, and adapt when the facts change, without deferring decisions or sitting on the fence
• Work close to the codebase and system architecture, translating ambiguous requirements into technical specifications that engineering teams can build against
• Build alignment across product, engineering, and operations teams without relying on formal authority, communicate a clear technical vision, and coach others toward it
• Leave the organisation permanently better, building tooling, processes, and technical documentation that scale beyond what you can personally produce

What you'll need

• Have landed in an ambiguous, high-stakes technical environment with no predefined strategy and turned it into a shipped, structured outcome
• Have built tools, systems, or software that outlasted your involvement and continued to generate value for engineering and product teams
• Reason from first principles into unfamiliar technical domains quickly and become the person others come to for the answer
• Have a track record of making clear, well-reasoned calls, backing them with evidence, and holding to them while remaining genuinely open to changing your view when the facts shift
• Have brought engineering and product teams with you without formal authority and built alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Are comfortable working close to a codebase, engineering trade-offs, and technical roadmaps, even if you are not the one writing the production code

Nice to have

• Experience operating within or alongside a product or engineering function, with a working understanding of software development lifecycles, deployment pipelines, and technical trade-offs
• Exposure to a high-ambiguity environment, whether as a founder, early operator, or technical consultant to growth-stage companies

What they offer

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