Director of Product (Platform)

Job description

Orcrist is building a next generation data intelligence platform using cutting-edge technologies. We're handling petabyte-scale data with sub-second queries. Our product is a Kubernetes‑based platform delivered as B2B SaaS or as a self‑hosted on‑prem solution, including air‑gapped deployments. We enable customers across defense, law enforcement, and enterprise to turn mission-critical data into actionable intelligence. Role As Director of Product you own Orcrist’s entire product portfolio - Orcrist’s OIP and Civitas’ Sentinel, and lead the product organisation. You decide what Orcrist builds and in which order: what becomes platform and what stays customer-specific, which customer problem is solved next, and how we measure that it has been solved. Our promise is demonstrable the effectiveness of our software, and making that promise deliverable is the core of this role. You work directly with Engineers, our Government Development-Team and our customers and report to the COO of Orcrist. What you’ll do Own product strategy and the portfolio roadmap across all product lines – including the decision about what becomes shared platform and what remains customer-specific engineering. Build and lead the product organisation : hire and develop Product Managers for the product lines and align them on common standards for discovery, prioritisation and delivery. Make product effectiveness and customer activity & usage a measurable product goal: define metrics, measurement logic and the subsequent tasks that are triggered by that. Own discovery with our Government Development team and our customers, and translate their requirements into product decisions rather than collecting feature requests. Decide prioritisation across competing customer, tender and platform demands, and defend those decisions to customers, the team and the management. Plan deliverable releases together with Engineering and QA, holding the balance between speed, quality and platform capability. Assess market , competitive and technology developments in the defence and simulation space and feed them into product strategy. About you 8+ years of product management experience with complex technical products, preferably in the Analytics or SAAS-space, including several years leading Product Managers or a product organisation. Proven track record of delivering products from discovery through to customer r…