Product Lead - Cities & Critical Infrastructures

Orasio; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founder-level ownership of product

Direct access to demanding users

Stock options

Paris-based office

International exposure across Europe

Job summary

Orasio is seeking a Product Lead to own the Cities & Critical Infrastructure vertical from strategy to execution, and to make Citadel the platform every European city and critical infrastructure operator relies on for video intelligence.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will work with customers and field users, translate complex operational needs into clear requirements, and drive scalable deployments with Engineering and AI teams across Europe.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading product or major product areas end to end.
• Ability to create structure from ambiguity and decide with incomplete information.
• Strong product judgment and clear rationale for build decisions.
• Experience working with engineers and ML teams.

Responsibilities

• Define European coverage strategy: countries, segments, use cases.
• Set strategy, goals and metrics for Cities & Critical Infrastructure.
• Prioritize investments by user segments and problems with highest value.
• Make explicit trade-offs and own outcomes across teams.
• Proactively identify opportunities rather than waiting for requests.
• Engage with operators, investigators, security teams, and decision-makers to understand workflows.
• Translate operational needs into clear requirements and intuitive workflows.
• Collaborate with Design, Engineering, ML, Platform, Sales and Deployment teams, discuss architecture and APIs.
• Build for scale: multi-camera investigations, real-time alerting, search, ingestion, mapping, permissions and auditability.
• Treat reliability and performance as product features.
• Measure adoption, user satisfaction, investigation time saved, alert quality and system performance.
• Iterate until outcomes are achieved and not just feature delivery.
• Incorporate security, privacy, auditability, GDPR and EU AI Act into decisions.
• Work with senior public-sector and enterprise stakeholders while staying close to end users.

Skills

Product ownership

Decision making under ambiguity

Technical understanding

Product leadership

English & French fluency

Travel willingness

Security clearance eligibility

Tools

APIs

CV pipelines

Job description

About Orasio

Orasio builds sovereign video intelligence solutions for the physical world. Our AI models turn video streams into actionable intelligence, detecting situations, people, vehicles, objects and patterns of interest, in real time or after the fact.

Our products are deployed across Europe with public authorities, law enforcement, defense organizations, cities and critical infrastructure operators. They integrate with existing cameras and video management systems, and are built for demanding operational environments while strictly respecting European legal, privacy and security frameworks.

As artificial intelligence becomes a key pillar of European technological sovereignty, Orasio’s mission is to become Europe’s leading video intelligence company.

The Role

We’re looking for a Product Lead to:

• Own our Cities & Critical Infrastructure vertical end to end, from strategy to execution.

• Make Citadel the platform every European city and critical infrastructure operator relies on for video intelligence.

• Turn the complexity of large deployments (hundreds to thousands of cameras, multiple VMS providers, real-time alerts, forensic investigations, strict regulation) into a simple product and a scalable business.

This is not a traditional Product Manager role. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will run the vertical like your own business: understand the market, choose the problems that matter, set priorities, work directly with customers and users in the field, and drive execution with Engineering and AI teams.

Our ambition is continental from the start: Citadel deployed in every city, transport network, energy site, airport and port in Europe. Your job is to get us there.

Responsibilities

Vertical Ownership:

• Define the path to European coverage: which countries, segments and use cases to win first, and how to expand from there

• Set the strategy, goals and success metrics for Cities & Critical Infrastructure

• Decide where Orasio should invest and which user segments and problems create the most value

• Make explicit trade-offs, prioritize ruthlessly, and take responsibility for outcomes across teams

• Identify opportunities proactively rather than waiting for requests

Product Management:

• Spend significant time with operators, investigators, security teams, infrastructure managers and decision-makers to understand how they actually work

• Solve the highest-value problems rather than implementing customer-specific requests

• Translate complex operational needs into clear requirements and intuitive workflows

• Work closely with Design, Engineering, Machine Learning, Platform, Sales and Deployment teams, and be comfortable discussing architecture, APIs, CV pipelines, VMS integrations, latency and GPU capacity

• Build for scale: multi-camera investigations, real-time alerting, search, ingestion, mapping, permissions and auditability, turning lessons from individual deployments into reusable capabilities

• Treat reliability and performance as product features

Outcomes & Compliance:

• Measure adoption, user satisfaction, investigation time saved, alert quality and system performance

• Keep iterating until the expected outcome is achieved, not just until the feature ships

• Build security, privacy, auditability, GDPR and the EU AI Act into every product decision

• Work with senior public-sector and enterprise stakeholders while staying close to end users

Ideal Profile

5+ years of experience in demanding technology environments, including:

• Significant experience owning a product, company or major product area end to end

• A track record of creating structure from ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information

• Strong product judgment and the ability to explain clearly why something should or shouldn’t be built

• Strong technical understanding and the ability to work directly with engineers and ML teams

• Experience launching products and iterating quickly based on real user feedback

• Fluency in English and French

• Willingness to travel regularly to customers across Europe.

• Eligibility for the required security clearances, including NATO levels.

Bonus: entrepreneurial experience, zero-to-one product building, AI/computer vision, hardware/edge computing, or experience in cities, transport, energy, public safety, or defense

What We Offer

At Orasio, you’ll help define how AI is used to understand and protect the physical world. We offer:

• Founder-level ownership of an entire product vertical, not a narrow feature set

• Direct access to some of Europe’s most demanding users, in operational environments

• Frontier technology combining computer vision, generative AI, video infrastructure and edge computing

• A Paris-based office, working closely with the core Product, AI and Engineering teams

• Stock options to share in the long-term value you help create

• International exposure with customers and partners across Europe

Ready to build?

We’re looking for someone who wants more than a Product Lead title: someone who wants to build, own and scale a major part of Orasio.