About the role:
This is a rare opportunity to own a product at the core of a munitions platform, specifically the seeker module responsible for detection, classification, and guidance.
You will own the product lifecycle from integration through adoption and into service, ensuring reliability across demanding operational environments where modularity, autonomous operation, and self-adaptation are essential.
As Product Owner, you will define requirements, represent customer needs to engineering, and drive qualification, platform integration, and sustainment.
You will work across a complex stakeholder environment, partnering with internal engineering and manufacturing teams, platform OEMs, systems integrators, acquisition authorities, and end users.
Success in this role requires someone equally comfortable engaging a defence program office, influencing senior stakeholders, and working directly with engineers to solve technical challenges.
About you:
- You bring deep understanding of the defence ecosystem, whether through military service, defence industry, or adjacent operational environments.
- You understand how defence capability is acquired, integrated, qualified, and sustained, and can bridge the gap between documented requirements and real operational needs.
- You are technically literate and capable of challenging trade-offs, translating customer requirements into engineering outcomes, and identifying downstream integration risks.
- You build trust across organisational boundaries and are confident engaging with defence stakeholders, OEMs, program offices, and internal technical teams.
- You take ownership, operate with high accountability, and thrive in complex, mission-critical environments.
Key responsibilities:
Product Definition and Strategy
- Own the product roadmap for a modular, autonomous seeker module across its full lifecycle — from integration through adoption and into service.
- Define and maintain product requirements that satisfy operational needs across multiple platform variants and customer defence establishments.
- Establish and drive the modularity and self-adaptation architecture as a product discipline — ensuring it is preserved through design decisions, interface agreements, and configuration management.
- Prioritise the product backlog in collaboration with engineering, balancing customer commitments, platform integration timelines, and technical capability.
Platform Interoperability and Interface Management
- Manage the technical and commercial interface between the seeker capabilities and platform OEMs.
- Own the interface control documentation and drive agreement on integration standards with partner organisations.
- Identify integration risk early and maintain a clear picture of what each platform requires relative to current product capability.