Product Manager Mission Aircraft (m/f/d)

Location: Gilching, Bayern, Germany; on-site with the option to work remotely one flexible day per week.

Company

Develops integrated hardware, software, and AI-powered unmanned systems for mission-critical operations across air, land, and maritime domains.

What you will do

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, priorities, measurable outcomes, and lifecycle for an optionally piloted multi-mission aircraft.
• Engage end users, governmental customers, Sales, and Solutions teams to identify operational challenges, mission scenarios, and capability gaps.
• Shape capabilities for Counter-UxS, ISR, maritime and border patrol, training, and manned-unmanned teaming.
• Drive integration of radar, EO/IR, SIGINT, communications, and other mission-specific payloads and systems.
• Lead trade-off decisions involving performance, payload, endurance, platform constraints, cost, risk, certification, and time-to-market.
• Define acceptance criteria and support validation, release readiness, market introduction, lifecycle decisions, and cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
• Several years of experience in technical Product Management, Systems Engineering, or product development within aerospace, defence, UAS, aviation, or another complex hardware-software environment.
• Experience taking technically complex products or capabilities from customer need and concept through development, validation, and market or operational deployment.
• Strong technical understanding across aircraft systems, hardware, software, sensors, communications, and mission-system integration.
• Strong commercial judgement, including balancing customer value, operational utility, technical feasibility, cost, schedule, and product scalability.
• Ability to make decisions in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information and structure complex stakeholder discussions.
• High self-motivation and ability to drive responsibilities independently.
• Fluent English communication required.

Nice to have

• Experience with military aviation, UAS, ISR, Counter-UAS, mission systems, payload integration, or manned-unmanned teaming.
• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Trust-based flexible working hours with responsibility for work-life balance.
• On-site work in Gilching with one flexible remote day per week.
• Company pension scheme, subsidized lunch budget, and access to fitness and sports facilities through EGYM Wellpass.
• Bike leasing, corporate discounts, employee events, and a company shuttle from Munich-Laim.
• Inclusive workplace that values diversity and encourages every employee to contribute perspectives and ideas.