Global Chief Product Officer: Autonomous Defense Systems

UFORCE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

UFORCE, headquartered in London, seeks a Chief Product Officer to own global product direction across Ukraine and Global markets. You will work directly with Hardware and Software CTOs, Manufacturing, Delivery, and commercial leaders while engaging with engineers, customers, operators, and field teams.

You will balance common platform capabilities with market-specific development, ensure timely decisions, and align product strategy with strategic R&D and customer opportunities.

Qualifications

• Executive leadership experience in defence technology, robotics, autonomous systems, aerospace, or integrated hardware–software environments.
• Experience owning product strategy and cross-product decisions across multiple products, platforms, markets, or operating regions.
• Track record of rapidly learning technically complex products and working with engineers, factories, customers, operators, or field teams.
• Experience leading urgent, cross-functional programmes and resolving execution conflicts across functions, sites, or geographies.
• Strong judgment balancing common platform capabilities with customer-, mission-, or market-specific development.
• Ability to make hard prioritisation and capacity decisions with incomplete information and explain actions clearly.
• Experience connecting strategic R&D, operational need, customer opportunity, technical feasibility, manufacturing capacity, and commercial value.
• Technical credibility to challenge product and system assumptions without displacing Engineering ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own UFORCE’s product vision, strategy, portfolio direction, and product-level priorities across Ukraine and Global markets.
• Develop deep familiarity with UxV and C2 capabilities, including performance, maturity, configurations, dependencies, production constraints, and customer commitments.
• Maintain a live company-wide view of strategic R&D, product development, customer work, engineering commitments, manufacturing activity, and blockages.
• Act as hands-on integrator across Product, Hardware, Software, Manufacturing, Delivery, Commercial, customers, and operators.
• Translate evidence into rapid product and investment decisions and reconcile conflicting priorities.

Skills

Executive leadership

Product strategy

Cross-product decisions

Learning complex products

Cross-functional leadership

Prioritisation decisions

Technical credibility

Stakeholder engagement

Executive collaboration

Job description

UFORCE, headquartered in London, seeks a Chief Product Officer to own global product direction across Ukraine and Global markets. You will work directly with Hardware and Software CTOs, Manufacturing, Delivery, and commercial leaders while engaging with engineers, customers, operators, and field teams.

You will balance common platform capabilities with market-specific development, ensure timely decisions, and align product strategy with strategic R&D and customer opportunities.