Product Manager - Localization & Navigation (All genders)

STARK; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

STARK is seeking a Product Manager for localization and navigation within our autonomy stack. You will translate deep technical complexity into a prioritized roadmap that ships, ensuring engineering effort targets the most impactful problems.

You will define success metrics, balance feasibility with ambition, and drive prioritization across engineering, systems, and field teams, reporting to senior leadership. Fluent English is required; German is a plus.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of product management experience with ownership of a technically complex roadmap.
• Strong technical fluency in localization, state estimation, or autonomy software.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous, technically dense problems into clear product requirements and roadmaps.
• Track record working with GNC, perception, or autonomy engineering teams to ship complex capability.
• Strong stakeholder management with experience presenting roadmaps to senior leadership.
• Excellent written communication: PRDs, requirements docs, and roadmaps engineers can act on.
• Fluent English; German is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Own and drive the localization and navigation roadmap.
• Translate platform requirements into clear, prioritized technical requirements for engineering.
• Partner with engineering leadership to balance roadmap ambition against feasibility, risk, and timeline.
• Define and track success metrics for localization performance (accuracy, robustness, drift, time-to-reacquisition).
• Run prioritization: gather input from engineering, systems, and field stakeholders, then decide.
• Represent the localization roadmap to the Head of Product and leadership, including trade-offs and risk.
• Maintain visibility into technical constraints and emerging approaches without owning the architecture.
• Write clear product requirement docs, acceptance criteria, and release narratives for engineering.
• Track competitive and technological landscape developments relevant to GNSS-independent navigation.

Kenntnisse

Product management

Technical fluency

Stakeholder management

Written communication

English language

German language

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionising 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 — providing operators with a decisive edge in contested environments.

We are 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

Your mission

You will own the product roadmap for one of the hardest and most consequential capabilities in our autonomy stack: how our platforms know where they are when GPS isn't available or can't be trusted. You won't be writing the estimation filters yourself, but you'll be translating deep technical complexity into a roadmap that ships, and making sure engineering effort lands on the problems that matter most. Success looks like a localization capability that improves predictably, release over release, with clear priorities that the technical team trusts.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the product roadmap for localization and navigation

• Translate platform-level requirements and operational needs into clear, prioritized technical requirements for engineering

• Partner closely with engineering leadership to balance roadmap ambition against technical feasibility, risk, and timeline

• Define and track success metrics for localization performance (accuracy, robustness, drift, time-to-reacquisition) in product terms

• Run the prioritization process: gather input from engineering, systems, and field/operations stakeholders, then make the call

• Represent the localization roadmap to the Head of Product and cross-functional leadership, including trade-off decisions and risk

• Maintain close visibility into technical constraints and emerging approaches without owning the technical architecture directly

• Write clear product requirement docs, acceptance criteria, and release narratives that engineering can build against

• Track competitive and technological landscape developments relevant to GNSS-independent navigation

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of a technically complex roadmap

• Strong technical fluency in localization, state estimation, or autonomy software — gained through close partnership with engineering (not necessarily as a hands-on engineer)

• Proven ability to translate ambiguous, technically dense problems into clear product requirements and prioritized roadmaps

• Track record of working directly with GNC, perception, or autonomy engineering teams to ship complex technical capability

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting roadmap and trade-off decisions to senior leadership

• Excellent written communication: PRDs, requirements docs, and roadmap narratives that engineers can act on without a follow-up meeting

• Fluent English; German is a plus

Nice to have

• Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or defence-adjacent product management

• Familiarity with SLAM, or sensor fusion concepts at a working (non-implementation) level

• Experience working on products where performance must hold under adversarial or degraded operating conditions

• Prior experience in a startup or fast-scaling engineering organization

• Technical degree (engineering, robotics, physics, or similar) even without a hands-on engineering career