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About the Role
As Senior Product Manager Software, you will own the software product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle, from discovery through delivery and performance. You will build and structure product discovery and delivery processes for the software domain, contributing to end-to-end solutions for defense partners and clients.
Responsibilities
- Own the software product strategy by defining and articulating the direction for assigned software products or value streams, identifying customer problems and market opportunities, and balancing near-term opportunities with long-term company goals.
- Provide product design authority by ensuring software concepts, capabilities and development choices remain aligned with the Underwater Security product vision and strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead customer and market discovery by developing a deep understanding of customer needs, operational use cases and buying contexts, validating direction with customers and partners, and synthesizing feedback from deployed products.
- Own software roadmap development and prioritization by defining the capabilities required to address validated needs, balancing improvements, new functionality and technology evolution, and communicating priorities across relevant teams.
- Develop business cases and commercial input by defining success measures and commercial objectives, providing evidence for portfolio investment decisions, and supporting Product Marketing with product knowledge for pricing and launch readiness.
- Coordinate the product core team by working with System Engineering on requirements and feasibility, Product Ownership on executable increments, and Project Management on customer delivery, while aligning Sales, Business Development, Customer Projects and Engineering around progress, quality and outcomes.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in engineering or design, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Software Product Management, with a proven track record of developing, deploying and maintaining software (platform) driven solutions in defense industry or another industrial high-tech / high compliance environment.
- Strong understanding of software products, particularly in complex and regulated environments, e.g., industrial environments.
- In-depth knowledge of software product management and strategy methodologies.
- Demonstrable experience in defining software product strategy and creating complete business cases.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills at operational and management level.
- Demonstrated critical thinking, adaptability to challenges, and a problem-solving mindset to creatively address user pain points.
- Proficiency in software industry standard tooling for software development and road mapping such as Jira / Jira Product Discovery / Jira Service Management, Confluence, BigPicture.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying product level knowledge, decisions and roadmaps to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel.
- Drivers’ license B (or international equivalent).
- Security screening is mandatory, requiring a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service).
Skills
- Jira / Jira Product Discovery / Jira Service Management
- Confluence
- BigPicture
- JAMA Connect
- Siemens Polarion
- SAFe
- Miro
- Figma
- Dovetail
- Amplitude
- PowerBI
- Dutch language
Location
- Amsterdam
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Master’s degree
About the Company
- Optics11 is a fast-growing high-tech company based in Amsterdam, developing advanced fiber optic sensing systems for the most demanding environments.
- Our technology detects the earliest signs of failure in critical assets – from high-voltage energy infrastructure to subsea and defense applications – and gives our customers precise, real-time data they can act on.