Senior Product Manager (ISR) Defence & Intelligence

Own the product and delivery side of LiveEO's defence and intelligence business. You will run customer-facing defence products end to end from a product management perspective including analytical products as well as end user applications, and build the roadmap that connects different customer timelines, concept of operations and technical component maturity into one plan that engineering and sales work from.

What you'll do

• Take our imagery intelligence application from working demonstrator to deployable product. Define the release scope, the deployment and support model for secure on-premise environments, and drive the first installation at a real user.
• Work with the engineering team in two-week sprints. Translate operational needs into written requirements and user stories, prioritise ruthlessly, cut scope when it is the right call, and keep the team pointed at what matters.
• Own scope, milestones, deliverables and stakeholder communication for customer-facing defence engagements, and take on new projects as the pipeline converts.
• Reconcile project timelines, concept of operations and component readiness into one roadmap that is used to set priorities.
• Bring operational depth on the intelligence cycle, collection and tasking, and imagery exploitation. Be the person engineering asks how an analyst would really use this, and the person sales asks what we can credibly claim.
• Run workshops and user sessions, gather and structure feedback, demonstrate the product, and support bids and proposals with operational substance.

What you'll need

• Professional ISR, GEOINT or IMINT background: Bundeswehr, the intelligence community, defence procurement, or an ISR role in industry.
• Real operational fluency in the intelligence cycle, collection and tasking, and how imagery products are produced and consumed at a staff.
• Proven ability to translate operational needs into written requirements that engineers can build from. Track record of driving work to a deadline across dependencies you did not control.
• German at native or fully fluent level, and professional English.
• German or European citizenship and eligibility to obtain a German security clearance (Sicherheitsüberprüfung).
• Willingness to work on-site in Berlin, hybrid with at least two days per week in the office, and to travel within Germany to customers and users.

Nice to have

• Product management or product ownership experience: backlog, sprint cadence, release scoping.
• Project management experience in defence or publicly funded programmes (national, EU, NATO).
• Experience writing CONOPS, operational requirements or capability documents.
• Familiarity with satellite imagery, remote sensing, or AI and machine learning products.
• Experience delivering software into secure on-premise or air-gapped environments.
• An existing valid German security clearance (SÜ2 / SÜ3).

What they offer

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model.
• Freedom to be creative and bold with opportunities to drive your own career development.
• No overtime culture - overtime offset with time off and rest.
• Collaborative and learning environment with internal workshops, knowledge sharing and hackathons.
• Office in Berlin Kreuzberg with free fruit, nuts and drinks; potential employee stock option program.
• Urban Sports membership, BVG subsidy and corporate pension program.