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Head of Product

Fiducial
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Delft, Netherlands
Experience
Senior · 5+ years

Job description

Head of Product at Fiducial, a deep-tech start-up developing on-board UAV situational awareness software for military applications. The role owns the product hands-on, bridging market and operator needs with engineering to shape, package, price, and take products to market.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid · Delft, Netherlands

What you'll do

  • Owning the product roadmap and prioritization, and keeping the product direction aligned with the company strategy as the market and the technology evolve
  • Translating operator needs, market signals, and partner requirements into clear, well-scoped work for engineering, and translating technical capability back into value the market understands
  • Writing requirements, shaping features, prioritizing the backlog, and working day-to-day with engineering to get things shipped and validated
  • Helping shape how capabilities in detection, navigation, interception, and beyond fit together as a modular, scalable line-up rather than isolated tools
  • Owning how usable products are for end users: ease of use, onboarding, training, documentation, and the adoption path from first deployment to routine operational use
  • Contributing to pricing, packaging, and business models across the product line-up, and owning the product side of the classic marketing mix (the 4Ps)
  • Partnering with commercial and business development on go-to-market for each capability, from positioning and narrative to capability briefs and demos
  • Keeping an eye on the market: trends, competitors, adjacent opportunities, and where the next product bets should be
  • Factoring export control, procurement, and relevant standards into product decisions, working with the right internal and external stakeholders
  • Bringing just enough structure, process, and documentation to make product work repeatable, suited to a fast-moving deep-tech company

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years in product management, with a track record of owning a product's roadmap and shipping it in a technical product environment
  • Experience in a startup or scale-up environment: comfortable with ambiguity, limited resources, and wearing several hats
  • A strong bridge-builder: connects customers and market reality to engineering, comfortable in deeply technical conversations without being the engineer
  • A genuinely hands-on mindset: wants to talk to users, write requirements, and work day-to-day with engineering, not only set direction from a distance
  • Exposure to pricing, packaging, and business-model decisions (the product side of the 4Ps)
  • Experience working with commercial teams on go-to-market
  • A user-obsessed attitude: cares about adoption, usability, training, and documentation, not only features
  • The ability to read a market, spot trends, and turn them into concrete product opportunities
  • Strong communication and stakeholder skills, from the field and the shop floor to founders, partners, and government stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Domain experience in defence, drones/UAV, aerospace, or other dual-use or high-stakes technology
  • Experience navigating regulated environments and their impact on product, such as export control, procurement, certification, or standards
  • Experience as an early or first dedicated product hire, setting up lightweight product practices from scratch

Benefits

Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with technology that matters

Real ownership, fast iteration, and tight feedback loops, and the chance to see what you build deployed in environments where it genuinely counts

  • The chance to own the product of a deep-tech defence company from an early stage, working directly with the founders
  • Equity participation
  • Competitive compensation
  • 25 vacation days per year
  • Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop
  • (Really) flexible working hours, with a hybrid setup around our Delft office

How to get hired

  1. 1Send some information about yourself (resume, LinkedIn, or other source)
  2. 2Initial conversation
  3. 3Deeper sessions with the founders and the team where we work through real product scenarios together

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About Fiducial

A young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up developing software for advanced on-board UAV situational awareness in military applications, using low-cost and widely available sensors and compute. The team works closely with government agencies, prime contractors, academic research institutes, and other start-ups, operating at the intersection of innovation and deployment.

Mission

To safeguard European safety through scalable autonomy, perception, and defence solutions

Key facts

  • Delft, the Netherlands
  • Defence deep-tech
  • Office located in the Aerospace Innovation Hub on the TU Delft campus in the faculty of Aerospace Engineering
  • Developing software for advanced on-board UAV situational awareness in military applications
  • Plans to develop a line-up of interconnected solutions to safeguard European safety
  • Projects span from large tender orders in collaboration with partners to low TRL research with government agencies

Partners & customers

Government agenciesPrime contractorsAcademic research institutesOther start-ups