Product Manager - Localization & Navigation (All genders)

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

About the team

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 isnt available or cant be trusted. You wont be writing the estimation filters yourself, but youll 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

If youre interested in building the future of European Defence with us, and you see yourself reflected on the description above, please send us your CV in English. We´re looking forward to meeting you!