At Wire, we provide secure communications for governments, defence organisations and regulated enterprises across Europe. We helped shape the development of Messaging Layer Security (MLS) and are among the pioneers of its production use at scale, with end-to-end encrypted messages, calls and file sharing. Our Government Edition holds BSI approval for communication at VS-NfD level within its approved scope.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Employment type: Permanent
Work experience: Extensive product management experience, including at senior level in a complex B2B or enterprise technology environment
Working hours: 40 hours/week
Location: Germany (flexible working within Germany)
Reports to: Director of Product
Languages: German and English at C1 level or above, written and spoken
Desired start date: As soon as possible
YOUR CHALLENGE AT WIRE
As Senior Product Manager, German Public Sector & Defence, you make sure Wire builds the right product for one of its most strategically important markets. You combine customer and market engagement with product leadership across one or more of our value streams, such as messaging, calling, file sharing and core platform capabilities. Along the way, you build a deep understanding of German public sector and defence customers and bring that context into our product organisation.
This is not a day-to-day delivery management role. Scope teams and engineering teams own backlogs, agile processes and delivery. Your job is to make sure our teams solve the right problems for the right reasons, and that product investment stays aligned with customer needs, commercial opportunity and Wire’s strategy.
Customer, market and commercial
- You build trusted relationships with customers, prospects and partners and represent Wire’s product organisation in senior product discussions.
- Together with Sales and Partnerships, you work on major opportunities, RFPs and tenders, bring credible product expertise and assess customer requirements.
- You keep track of the commercial pipeline, strategic customer commitments and emerging market opportunities.
Product direction and value streams
- You agree clear goals, desired outcomes and priorities with one or more value streams, in line with Wire’s product strategy.
- You translate customer and market needs into clearly framed product problems and opportunities for scope teams and engineering teams.
- You bring customer, commercial and business context into key product and prioritisation decisions, so the teams understand the reasons behind the priorities.
- You identify dependencies across value streams and coordinate product direction where customer needs span several parts of the Wire platform.
Cross-functional collaboration
- You work closely with Information Security where customer requirements involve security, assurance, accreditation or regulation, with clear accountability between product and security.
- Together with Product Marketing and the commercial team, you make sure the product’s capabilities and direction are represented accurately in the market.
Your first-year objectives
- You build trusted working relationships with key customers, prospects and commercial stakeholders from government and defence in Germany.
- You agree clear goals for the value streams you support and set clear product direction for the highest-value cross-product opportunities.
