Product Manager, Mission Payload Land (m/f/d)

Join Quantum-Systems and drive mission-critical payload capabilities to make a real impact. As Product Manager Mission Payload Land, you own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for payload capabilities across our Land Domain Vehicle Portfolio. You operate at the intersection of customer value, technical success, and commercial viability; working in tight collaboration with payload providers and internal engineering teams. You balance tactical mission requirements against platform constraints, make build-or-buy trade-offs consciously, and high define-value ConOps and payload configurations that the organization can execute against.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

End-to-End Product Management: Own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle management for mission payload integration across the UGV portfolio from discovery and concept validation to operational deployment

Market Screening & Ecosystem Management: Screen the market to identify, measured, and stand up partnerships with payload vendors across the domains ISR, Electronic Warfare, Communications, Combat Engineering, Logistics, and more

Continuous Discovery & Experimentation: Drive prototyping and experimental integration of partner payload including mechanical, E/E, and software integration interfaces and assessment performance and usability

Build-or-Buy & Productization: Prioritize payload capabilities based on mission utility and drive formal build-or-buy decisions for high-value use cases

Engineering & Vendor Collaboration: Serve as the functional bridge between external payload suppliers, customer stakeholders, and internal engineering teams

Iterative Delivery: Consolidate customer, user, and field operational insights to set product priorities and continuous convert into requirements shipped capabilities

What you bring to the team: Multiple years of hands-on experience in technical product/project management or systems engineering, ideally at a Tier-1 Defence Electronics, C4ISR, or Sensor Subsystem OEM

Strong commercial instincts paired with a solid technical foundation, enabling you to liaise seamlessly between engineering teams and external customer stakeholders

A proactive, solution-oriented approach with a proven ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment

Fluency in English to effectively engage with our global team and international customers; English is a plus

Why Quantum-Systems: We believe in the power of combined efforts: tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.

We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.

We push limits, think outside-the-box and strive for technological excellence shape to the future of aerial data.

We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.

Our benefits: Company pension scheme: We support you so that you can already make commissions for later.

Flexible working hours: With trust-based working hours, you are not only responsible for your working hours, but so for your work-life balance.

Mobile Work: If things get a little busy in the office, you have the option to work remotely one flexible day per week to create the right balance.

Stay active: With EGYM Wellpass, you get access to thousands of fitness and sports facilities — and of course, we subsidize the membership.

Bike leasing: We support you in staying environmentally mobile and healthy.

Corporate Benefits: Your opportunity for attractive offers and discounts from well-known suppliers and brands, e.g. Adidas, Apple, Expedia.

Employee events: We not only want to grow together, but so celebrate our successes together.

Lunch-Card: Be powerful with delicious energy, daily lunch budget is sponsored.

Company Shuttle: Enjoy our convenient shuttle service that picks you up from Laim in Munich and brings you to our location, with return trips at the end of the workday.

About us: Quantum Systems develops advanced autonomous systems for defense and security operations across multiple domains, powered by integrated software and AI. Quantum Systems is at the forefront of AI-powered aerial, ground, naval robotics, developing a family of smart systems that go far beyond traditional drones. Built on a foundation of in-house hardware, software and AI, our systems transform data into critical insights, empowering decision-making across security, defense and public safety, as well as for the commercial, industrial and GIS sectors. Our integrated system with industry leading endurance, enable seamless interoperability and software interconnectivity. On-board AI powers multi-modality sensing, autonomous navigation, anti-jamming, swarm and more. Our commitment: We are an open-minded company that not only values diversity, but advertises it. Regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability, we believe that the diversity of our is an essential part of our success. At our company, every voice is heard and every perspective is valued. We believe that our differences enrich us and help us to find creative solutions and generate innovative ideas. We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment where all employees can reach their full potential.

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