Technical Product Manager

About the role

Arondite provides foundational software that lets operators orchestrate their mix of platforms and capabilities, supporting mission-critical decisions in the UK and NATO environment. This Technical Product Manager takes ownership of a major part of the product, with ownership and autonomy from Day One, and works from early discovery through to delivery. The role sits close to a mini-startup, working with Strategy and Partnerships, Engineering and the Deployed motion.

Key responsibilities

• Take ultimate responsibility for the success of a major part of the product
• Understand users and stakeholders and synthesise their feedback
• Build a clear, explainable process for prioritising work despite B2G uncertainty
• Work with Engineering and Design to build simple, powerful, customisable features
• Shape the longer-term Product Roadmap for Cobalt with Product, Engineering and Deployed teams
• Ensure a world-class user experience

Required profile

• Proven experience owning products, platforms, data models or core infrastructure surfaces
• Ability to turn user, stakeholder and engineering signals into clear units of work, and to create a work-prioritisation system
• Curiosity about defence and technology, founder/owner mentality and comfort with ambiguity
• Willingness to travel to customer sites
• Security clearance or willingness to undergo UK security vetting to Security Check (SC) or above, normally requiring at least 5 years of continuous UK residency
• Right to work in the UK at the time of application

Required skills

• Server-side languages such as C++, Java, Rust or Python, or front-end development in TypeScript or JavaScript (Angular or React)
• Comfort reasoning about schemas, API design and architectural trade-offs
• Strong communication and stakeholder management

Ideally: a degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; experience with Product Ops automations, the defence sector, world-class product organisations or founding a company.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary and generous equity via EMI share options
• 7% employer pension contribution
• Free daily meals, private health and dental insurance, cycle-to-work scheme and relocation support
• Office-based working by default, with occasional home work and customer visits