As Chief Product Officer, you own the connection between what the market and our operators need and what we build. You are the bridge between customers, commercial, and engineering, turning field feedback and market insight into a clear product strategy, a coherent portfolio, and a roadmap the whole company can rally behind. You define how our capabilities become products: how they are packaged, priced, taken to market, and adopted by the people who use them in the field. This is a hands-on leadership role in a young company. You set product direction alongside the founders, and you also do the work: talking to users, shaping requirements, and making the calls that decide what we build next and why. As we grow, you build and lead the product function.

Responsibilities

Product vision & strategy. Owning and articulating a company-wide product strategy tied to our mission and keeping it alive as the market and the technology evolve.
Product roadmap ownership. Owning the product roadmap and prioritization across the portfolio, balancing customer-driven delivery against longer-term platform and R&D initiatives.
Market-to-technical bridge. Translating operator needs, market signals, and partner requirements into clear direction for engineering, and translating technical capability back into value the market understands.
Portfolio management. Managing the breadth of the product portfolio: how our capabilities in detection, navigation, interception, and beyond fit together as a modular, scalable ecosystem rather than isolated tools.
User experience & adoption. Owning how usable our products are for end users: ease of use, onboarding, training, documentation, and the adoption path from first deployment to routine operational use.
Pricing & business model. Defining pricing, packaging, and business models across the portfolio, and owning the product side of the classic marketing mix (the 4Ps).
Go-to-market. Partnering with commercial and business development to shape and execute go-to-market for each capability, from positioning and narrative to capability briefs and demos.
Market intelligence. Mapping the market continuously: trends, competitors, adjacent opportunities, and where the next product bets should be.
Regulatory & compliance interface. Given the defence context, factoring export control, procurement, and relevant standards into product decisions, working with the right internal and external stakeholders.
Building the function. As we scale, hiring, mentoring, and leading a product team, and putting lightweight product processes in place that fit a fast-moving deep-tech company.

Requirements

8+ years in product, with a senior track record owning product strategy, roadmap, and portfolio in a technical product environment.
Experience across the startup-to-scale-up journey, and ideally the step beyond, with the judgment to know what a company needs at each stage.
A strong bridgebuilder: you connect customers and market reality to engineering, and you are comfortable in deeply technical conversations without being the engineer yourself.
Demonstrated ownership of pricing, packaging, and business models (the product side of the 4Ps).
Experience shaping and executing go-to-market together with commercial teams.
A user-obsessed mindset: you care about adoption, usability, training, and documentation, not only features.
The ability to map a market, read trends, and turn them into concrete product opportunities.
Comfort operating hands-on in a small, fast-moving team while also setting long-term direction.
Strong communication and stakeholder skills, from the field and the shop floor to founders, partners, and government stakeholders.
Full-time availability.

Nice to have

Domain experience in defence, drones/UAV, aerospace, or other dual-use or high-stakes technology. A real plus, but not a must.
Experience navigating regulated environments and their impact on product, such as export control, procurement, certification, or standards.
Experience building and leading a product team from an early stage.

Benefits

A meaningful equity stake. We want the people building the company to own part of it.
Competitive compensation.
25 vacation days per year.
Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop.
(Really) flexible working hours, with a hybrid setup around our Delft office.
Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with technology that matters.
The rare opportunity to define the product function of a deep-tech defence company from an early stage, and to see what you build deployed in environments where it genuinely counts.