hypersonica-prod - Weapon System Product Lead
Requirements
• You have five or more years’ experience leading the development and evolution of complex hardware products or systems, ideally in defence, aerospace, or a similarly demanding environment. • An understanding of the full product lifecycle, from requirements and design through integration, test, production, in-service support, and product improvement. • A technically credible with engineering teams and can turn complex technical detail into clear product priorities, decisions, and trade-offs. • Experience managing product baselines, variants, configuration, and the impact of engineering changes in a controlled development environment. • You understand how safety, reliability, maintainability, producibility, supportability, and cost shape a successful product, not just its technical performance. • Experience leading effectively across disciplines, creating alignment without needing formal authority over every contributor. • Comfortable taking ownership in ambiguity, making considered decisions with incomplete information, and escalating issues where the decision or risk exceeds your authority. • You bring a pragmatic, hands-on approach, building only the structure needed to keep the product moving, and continuously improving ways of working rather than working problems. • British citizenship is required due to the security requirements of the role. You must be eligible to obtain and maintain the required UK security clearance.
Responsibilities
• Own the product direction and lifecycle coherence of one of our weapon systems currently in development, ensuring it evolves into a capable, reliable, producible, maintainable, and supportable product. • Build and maintain the product roadmap, translating operational needs, technical maturity, test evidence, and business priorities into clear capability spirals, releases, and product decisions. • Act as the product authority across engineering, manufacturing, test & safety, quality, programmes, and ILS, ensuring a shared understanding of the product, its intended use, and its next priorities. • Own the product baseline, variants, versioning, and configuration intent, ensuring that engineering changes are assessed before adoption. • Set clear product priorities and trade-offs with engineering, balancing capability, safety, reliability, cost, schedule, maturity, production, and through-life sustainability. • Engage with relevant customer and operator stakeholders to validate priorities and usage requirements. • Use evidence from integration, test, production, maintenance, and operator feedback to shape the next development spirals and focus investment on the changes that create the greatest product and operational value. • Ensure reliability, maintainability, producibility, supportability, transportability, and safety from the outset. Work closely with the ILS organisation, retaining ownership of the resulting product trade-offs and evolution. • Establish lean product-management structures and decision routines where needed, keeping the product moving without adding process for its own sake. • Make sound decisions under real technical and delivery ambiguity, recognise when a decision requires wider expertise or escalation, and step into unowned product problems rather than waiting for assignment.
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