Product Manager

Helsing is a defence artificial intelligence company that develops technologies to protect democracies and ensure technological leadership for open societies.

• 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.

• 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, which typically requires German citizenship, have prior experience working within or alongside German government, defence or public sector institutions.

• 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;
• 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.