Product Manager (Defence)

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Product Manager (Defence)

Department: 475 - Product

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London

Description

Arqit is a global cybersecurity company delivering quantum-safe encryption to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Powered by its advanced symmetric key cryptography, the Arqit SKA-Platform offers scalable encryption that is resilient to quantum threats. The platform allows devices to seamlessly generate and share secure encryption keys, ensuring robust data protection across sectors like telecoms, defence, and finance.

Stronger, simpler encryption.

We have a new opportunity for a Product Manager, with a background in the Defence sector, to join our friendly team. Our offices are located conveniently close to Westminster, St James Park and Victoria stations, with considerable flexibility around working from home. We will give you the opportunity to innovate, take ownership, and scale new heights in your career as the company grows

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will have a wide range of responsibilities with significant personal growth opportunities. Together with the Engineering Teams and GTM teams you will drive the requirements, design, build and delivery of truly leading-edge technology.

• Working with customers to understand their business problems and processes to ensure that we bring a product to market that fits.
• Managing requirements gathering, prioritizing and negotiating with business stakeholders to ensure the delivered solution meet or exceed end user's expectations.
• Identification of market requirements and sizing market opportunities and competitive landscape to build business plans.
• Acting as a "voice of the Customer" to champion customer and market requirements
• Defining the pricing strategy and input into the GTM strategy
• Leading solution identification and selection
• Helping facilitate clear communication and coordination between business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, and vendors.
• Defining and agreeing project scope, outputs, and timescale, quality and cost criteria to ensure business requirements are understood and agreed.
• End to end delivery of a product through the full life cycle.
• Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enable the achievement of project objectives.
• Managing Product risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits to enable the achievement of project objectives.

What we're looking for

The ideal candidate will be a highly-experienced Product Manager with a military background in IT/communications technologies, who has been involved in live tactical deployments.

You will need to be technical in nature, but with the ability to work with customers and understand markets and industries. You will need to demonstrate analytical thinking and the ability to both champion the voice of the Customer and also have a clear understanding of market-based trends and potential product offerings. The role also requires strong business analysis skills in order to convert potential products into a business plan that has buy-in from the business.

• Proven experience in a senior Product Management or Solutions Architecture role delivering technically complex Defence-grade MoD/DoD projects
• Significant experience of IT, Security, Cryptographic and Networking products and services
• Experience in technical selling to both customers and contracting partners
• Ability to translate technical feature capabilities into operational benefits and commercial value propositions
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, presentation and decision-making skills
• Ability to work in the UK without restrictions, and the ability to gain UK security clearance are both essential