Product Manager

As a Product Manager at Helsing, you will own the discovery and delivery of products that unlock new capabilities for sovereign defence customers. You will identify what Helsing needs to build within your area and bring the company together to deliver it, spanning commercial strategy, go-to-market planning, product design and technical architecture.

What you'll do

• Define and steward the product vision and roadmap for your area, translating operational customer needs into prioritised plans that deliver measurable capability improvements for defence end-users
• Lead structured discovery and co-creation sessions with customers, synthesising field insights to validate product hypotheses and shape go-to-market positioning
• Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across engineering, AI research and programme management, driving products from early prototype to production with clarity of purpose and pace
• Shape commercial strategy for your product area, partnering with senior leadership to ensure alignment with Helsing's mission and long-term growth objectives
• Define and track success metrics that demonstrate product impact, feeding learnings back into the roadmap and communicating progress with transparency to internal and external stakeholders

What you'll need

• Understand the full scope of product management, from commercial strategy and go-to-market planning through to technical architecture and product design
• Have guided teams through the discovery and co-creation of new products, bringing structure and clarity to complex, undefined problem spaces
• Learn quickly across unfamiliar domains, whether defence procurement, military systems, AI or industrial policy, and translate that knowledge into sound, well-reasoned product decisions
• Build effective working relationships across engineering, research and commercial functions, communicating with clarity between technical and business contexts
• Communicate fluently in both German and English, written and spoken, to a professional standard

Nice to have

• Hold, or are eligible to obtain, a German security clearance (Sicherheitsüberprüfung), which typically requires German citizenship
• Have prior experience working within or alongside German government, defence or public sector institutions

What they offer

• 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
• 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