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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.\nThe Role\nAs Senior Product Manager Software you will build a deep understanding of the software we supply to our defense partners and clients.\nYou will have full product ownership including strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle and contribute to adjacent hardware product strategy and propositions to, jointly with our hardware product managers, build end-to-end solutions for our defense partners and clients. You build and structure our product discovery and delivery ways of working for the software domain.\nYou will be part of the Product team in Underwater Security and work closely with our hardware Product Managers, Data science, Software, R&D, Engineering Sales, Projects and Application Engineering teams.\nNo two weeks will look the same. You might speak with a defense partner about an operational challenge, turn feedback from a deployed product into a roadmap decision, test the feasibility of a new capability with System Engineering, or work with the Product Owner to translate priorities into executable increments. You will also collaborate with hardware Product Managers, Engineering, Sales and Customer Projects to ensure our software and hardware come together as one coherent solution.\nYou will own the software product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle, from discovery and business case through prioritization, delivery and performance.\nWithin your first 6-12 months, you will have established a clear, evidence-based software strategy, strengthened our discovery and delivery practices, and aligned teams around the capabilities that matter most. Your work will reduce uncertainty, improve investment decisions and help Optics11 deliver scalable, commercially strong software products that solve real problems for customers operating in demanding, high-stakes environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the software product strategy by defining and articulating the direction for assigned software products or value streams, identifying customer problems and market opportunities, and balance near-term opportunities with long-term company goals.\nProvide 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.\nLead 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.\nOwn 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.\nDevelop 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.\nCoordinate 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.\nRequirements\nMaster’s degree in engineering or design, or equivalent experience.\n5+ 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\nStrong understanding of software products, particularly in complex and regulated environments, e.g., industrial environments.\nIn-depth knowledge of software product management and - strategy methodologies.\nDemonstratable experience in defining software product strategy and creating complete business cases.\nStrong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills at operational and management level\nDemonstrated critical thinking, adaptability to challenges, and a problem-solving mindset to creatively address user pain points.\nProficiency in software industry standard tooling for software development and road mapping such as Jira / Jira Product Discovery / Jira Service Management, Confluence, BigPicture\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying product level knowledge, decisions and roadmaps to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nWillingness to travel\nDrivers’ license B (or international equivalent)\nNice to Have\nExperience in defense industry or another industrial high-tech / high compliance environment\nProficiency in JAMA Connect, Siemens Polarion, SAFe, Miro, Figma, Dovetail, Amplitude, PowerBI\nProficiency in Dutch language is a plus\nSecurity screening\nYou'll be working with clients in the defense and security sectors, obtaining a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service) is mandatory. 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