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Hive Robotics is building Europe’s first full-stack orchestration platform for unmanned systems: connecting, controlling, and commanding multi-vendor drone and robot swarms. Our RF communication systems are Made in Germany, deployed on active frontlines, and targeting a highly valued tactical communication market with zero sovereign alternatives today. As our first dedicated Senior Product Manager, you own the path from customer need to released product: you work directly with customers to understand their missions and their technical and operational constraints, translate what you learn into structured requirements our engineers can build against, and keep delivery on track along the way. Today, product knowledge lives across founders and engineers. Your job is to turn it into a managed asset: a clear requirement base and a product configuration catalogue that sales, engineering, and production all work from. You report to the CTO. This role is customer-facing by design: expect to spend around 20–30% of your time traveling, working with customers and end-users alongside our sales team. The rest of your week is on-site in Munich, close to the engineers building the product. Customer Requirements & Discovery Engage directly with customers and end-users alongside our sales team: understand their missions, concepts of operations, and real technical and operational constraints first-hand Drill broad customer wishes down to concrete, testable requirements: capture conops, use cases, and acceptance criteria during the session Assess feasibility with engineering before anything is promised, you are the one who says what the product can and cannot do Own the feedback loop from the field: turn what deployed systems teach us into roadmap decisions Bring market and competitive insight into positioning and pricing decisions, together with sales and finance Requirements Management Translate customer and market needs into structured requirements engineering can build against: PRDs, specifications and acceptance criteria Own prioritization: decide what gets built next and defend the trade-offs to customers, engineers, and management alike Keep every requirement traceable from customer conversation to released feature, including what was deliberately not built, and why Product Configuration Catalogue Build our product configuration catalogue from the ground up: variants, options, and valid combinations as the single source of truth for what Hive offers Keep sales, engineering, and production working from the same catalogue. What is quoted is what can be built, configured, and supported Own catalogue changes end to end: when a variant is added, changed, or retired, you make sure every function knows what that means for them Make sure every variant carries its regulatory and commercial status: product compliance, quality requirements, and export control classification are known before anything is quoted Manage product lifecycle decisions with engineering and supply chain, including component obsolescence and end-of-life planning Delivery Accountability Own development timelines: turn commitments into plans with named owners and dates, and keep releases on track Create accountability through transparency: surface slippage early, bring the trade-off to a decision, and communicate status honestly in both directions Drive release readiness across engineering, quality, and production Keep production reality in view: factor lead times, ramp-up plans, and delivery commitments into roadmap and catalogue decisions, in close coordination with operations Processes & Documentation Build the product management foundation as our first dedicated PM: requirements repository, decision records, roadmap, and release documentation that outlive any single head Choose and introduce the product tooling as we grow: pragmatic now, scalable later Grow the product function’s processes with headcount: what works at 25 people