Director Marketing (all genders)

DUDE CHEM; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

STARK, a defence technology company, seeks a Director of Marketing to lead a team of about eight and drive the go-to-market for high-performance unmanned systems. You will define strategy, build trusted content, and oversee events that matter in Europe.

You will map budgets, programs, and procurement cycles, guiding the unit with clear direction and measurable outcomes, aligning branding with NATO-related expectations.

Qualifikationen

• Knowledge of the European defence landscape and procurement processes.
• Understanding how ministries and operators evaluate technology to earn trust.
• Experience building relationships across defence ecosystem and NATO context.

Aufgaben

• Read the landscape: budgets, programs, procurement cycles and the political context around them and translate into direction for the unit.
• Decide which events, campaigns and demonstrations matter and eliminate the rest.
• Understand how ministries, procurement offices and operators evaluate technology and direct content that earns trust.
• Carry field insights back into product and brand.

Kenntnisse

Defence landscape

Procurement

Policy context

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments.

We’re focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems - not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe - today.

About the team

As the Director of Marketing you are responsible for a team of ca 8 people, reporting directly to you.

Your mission

Nothing in our market is bought off a campaign. Your job is to know the European defence landscape well enough to tell us where to show up, when, and why and to be measured on outcomes, not impressions.

Responsibilities

• Read the landscape: budgets, programs, procurement cycles and the political context around them and turn it into direction the whole unit acts on.
• Decide which events, campaigns and demonstrations matter. Eliminate the ones that don't.
• Understand how ministries, procurement offices and operators actually evaluate technology, and direct the content that earns their trust.
• Carry what the field teaches you back into product and brand.
• Bring a product into market slash and you should oversee the full lifecycle of go-to-market.
• Build and lead a small, senior team.
• Responsible for Events andeExhibition

Qualifications

• As the You know European defence from the inside armed forces, procurement, a ministry, a prime, policy work or serious analysis.
• You think in decision journeys how a procurement officer, an operator and a minister each come to trust a system whether or not you've ever called it that.
• You have seen what a strong brand and design org does for winning trust, and you want to work with one not around it.
• You have standing relationships across the German and European defence ecosystem, and you understand the NATO context.
• You know the establishment without thinking like it, you belong to the tech- and software-defined, AI-native generation of defence, where things move in months

This is not for you if

• You want to run loud campaigns. We don't run them.
• You want to reinvent the brand. It isn't yours to reinvent, it's your instrument.
• You need certainty before speed.