Product Manager - Localization & Navigation

Own the product roadmap for localization and navigation — translating deep technical complexity into a roadmap that ships, and making sure engineering effort lands on the problems that matter most. Success looks like a localization capability that improves predictably, release over release, with clear priorities that the technical team trusts.

What you'll do

• Own and drive the product roadmap for localization and navigation
• Translate platform-level requirements and operational needs into clear, prioritized technical requirements for engineering
• Partner closely with engineering leadership to balance roadmap ambition against technical feasibility, risk, and timeline
• Define and track success metrics for localization performance (accuracy, robustness, drift, time-to-reacquisition) in product terms
• Run the prioritization process: gather input from engineering, systems, and field/operations stakeholders, then make the call
• Represent the localization roadmap to the Head of Product and cross-functional leadership, including trade-off decisions and risk
• Write clear product requirement docs, acceptance criteria, and release narratives that engineering can build against
• Track competitive and technological landscape developments relevant to GNSS-independent navigation

What you'll need

• 5+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of a technically complex roadmap
• Strong technical fluency in localization, state estimation, or autonomy software — gained through close partnership with engineering (not necessarily as a hands-on engineer)
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous, technically dense problems into clear product requirements and prioritized roadmaps
• Track record of working directly with GNC, perception, or autonomy engineering teams to ship complex technical capability
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting roadmap and trade-off decisions to senior leadership
• Excellent written communication: PRDs, requirements docs, and roadmap narratives that engineers can act on without a follow-up meeting
• Fluent English; German is a plus

Nice to have

• Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or defence-adjacent product management
• Familiarity with SLAM, or sensor fusion concepts at a working (non-implementation) level
• Experience working on products where performance must hold under adversarial or degraded operating conditions
• Prior experience in a startup or fast-scaling engineering organization
• Technical degree (engineering, robotics, physics, or similar) even without a hands-on engineering career