Orcrist Technologies - Director of Product (Platform)
Responsibilities
• Own product strategy and the portfolio roadmap across all product lines – including the decision about what becomes shared platform and what remains customer-specific engineering. • Own product strategy • Build and lead the product organisation: hire and develop Product Managers for the product lines and align them on common standards for discovery, prioritisation and delivery. • Build and lead the product organisation • Make product effectiveness and customer activity & usage a measurable product goal: define metrics, measurement logic and the subsequent tasks that are triggered by that. • product effectiveness • customer activity & usage • Own discovery with our Government Development team and our customers, and translate their requirements into product decisions rather than collecting feature requests. • Own discovery • translate their requirements into product decisions • Decide prioritisation across competing customer, tender and platform demands, and defend those decisions to customers, the team and the management. • Decide prioritisation • Plan deliverable releases together with Engineering and QA, holding the balance between speed, quality and platform capability. • Plan deliverable releases • Assess market, competitive and technology developments in the defence and simulation space and feed them into product strategy. • Assess market • 8+ years of product management experience with complex technical products, preferably in the Analytics or SAAS-space, including several years leading Product Managers or a product organisation. • Proven track record of delivering products from discovery through to customer rollout – with nameable outcomes, not just roadmaps. • Experience with B2B or B2G products in long, formal procurement cycles and with demanding enterprise or public sector customers. • Experience holding platform decisions against customer-specific exceptions – and explaining the commercial consequence of both paths. • Ability to decide with incomplete information, take ownership, and work in an environment without mature processes. • Excellent communication skills in German and English across various hierarchy levels. • Willingness to travel to customers (approx. 10-20%). • Authorization to work in Germany • Nice-to-haves • Nice-to-haves • Experience in defence, GovTech, data fusion; own military or law enforcement background an advantage. • Experience with data analytics platforms. • Experience with on-premise, offline or air-gapped products and their consequences for product decisions. • Experience building a product organisation in a startup or scale-up.
Benefits
• Remote-first, Germany-wide: Work from wherever you do your best work, with regular team gatherings in Berlin and other off-site locations. • Remote-first, Germany-wide: • Flexibility by default: Flexible working hours help you make work fit your life. • Flexibility by default: • Your setup, your way: Get a personal home-office equipment budget to create a workspace that works for you. • Your setup, your way: • 30 days of vacation: Take the time you need to recharge and come back with fresh energy. • 30 days of vacation: • Keep growing: We invest in your personal and professional development. • Keep growing: • Get rewarded for impact: Performance bonuses are tied to agreed objectives and key results. • Get rewarded for impact: • A warm welcome: Every new team member gets a welcome goodie bag. • A warm welcome: • Good people, good times: From summer and Christmas parties to regular team gatherings, we make time to celebrate together. • Good people, good times: • A mission that matters: Work on challenges with tangible impact on public safety and national security. • A mission that matters:
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