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Wire provides secure communications for governments, defence organisations and regulated enterprises across Europe. The company pioneered production use of Messaging Layer Security (MLS) at scale, offering end-to-end encrypted messages, calls and file sharing. Wire's Government Edition holds BSI approval for communication at VS-NfD level.
As Senior Product Manager for German Public Sector & Defence, you will drive product strategy for one of Wire's most strategically important markets. You combine customer and market engagement with product leadership across value streams including messaging, calling, file sharing and core platform capabilities. You build deep understanding of German public sector and defence customers and bring that context into the product organisation.
This is not a day-to-day delivery management role. Scope teams and engineering teams own backlogs, agile processes and delivery. Your responsibility is ensuring teams solve the right problems for the right reasons, and that product investment stays aligned with customer needs, commercial opportunity and Wire's strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
**Customer, Market & Commercial:** Build trusted relationships with customers, prospects and partners; represent Wire's product organisation in senior product discussions. Work with Sales and Partnerships on major opportunities, RFPs and tenders, bringing credible product expertise and assessing customer requirements. Track the commercial pipeline, strategic customer commitments and emerging market opportunities.
**Product Direction & Value Streams:** Agree clear goals, desired outcomes and priorities with value streams aligned to Wire's product strategy. Translate customer and market needs into clearly framed product problems and opportunities for scope and engineering teams. Bring customer, commercial and business context into key product and prioritisation decisions. Identify dependencies across value streams and coordinate product direction where customer needs span multiple platform areas.
**Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Work closely with Information Security on requirements involving security, assurance, accreditation or regulation, with clear accountability between product and security. Collaborate with Product Marketing and the commercial team to ensure the product's capabilities and direction are accurately represented in the market.
**First-Year Objectives:** Build trusted working relationships with key customers, prospects and commercial stakeholders; establish yourself as a credible product voice in the German public sector and defence market; develop a clear product roadmap aligned to customer needs and commercial priorities; identify and scope major product opportunities; coordinate across value streams on customer-critical initiatives.
The role reports to the Director of Product. You will work 40 hours per week with flexible working within Germany. Employment is permanent.
**Requirements:**
- Extensive product management experience, including at senior level in a complex B2B or enterprise technology environment
- German and English at C1 level or above, written and spoken
- Desired start date: as soon as possible
**Benefits:** VSOPs (equity), 30 days holiday, Urban Sports Club membership, €1,000 annual learning budget, access to first-class learning resources, hybrid work arrangement with Berlin office, fresh breakfast, daily fruit, snacks, free soft drinks and barista coffee.
