Product Manager (Remote)

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO UN EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services specialised aerospace and defence sales delivery and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATOs leading agent for change: driving facilitating and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships interaction and practical cooperation with partners nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development capability development training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformations Director for guidance direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO NCIA NSPA NATO HQ territorial Host Nations and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy political guidance and other policy documents supporting NATOs strategic objectives.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure the product direction provides value to the end user and aligns with organizational goals.
• Manage product backlogs including writing acceptance criteria and ensuring proper prioritization.
• Drive the product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders and development teams.
• Collaborate closely with Agile/DevSecOps teams to ensure incremental and user-centric delivery.
• Lead iterative planning meetings to ensure stories are accurately estimated and prioritized to best fit user needs.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps that support both short-term objectives and long-term strategies.
• Translate user needs into business value and balance priorities between user requirements and organizational benefit.
• Facilitate product information campaigns using modern communication channels (e.g. Twitter blogs community forums).
• Coordinate and lead productive meetings (standups retrospectives demos reviews) that drive product outcomes.
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for product management and apply lessons learned to ongoing projects.
• Provide technical fluency when collaborating with development teams to ensure
• alignment on architecture APIs CI/CD and other delivery pipelines.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience in designing innovative digital products/systems in a NATO or National defense institution.
• Proven experience managing product roadmaps backlogs and prioritization.
• Deep understanding of customers technology competition and the ability to execute product strategy.
• Experience collaborating with high-performing Agile/DevSecOps development teams (standups retrospectives design reviews user research demos).
• Experience with planning and execution of product information campaigns using modern communication channels (Twitter blogs etc.).
• Experience driving product vision and effectively communicating this vision across Agile teams.
• Ability to translate user needs into business value and ensure user-centric prioritization of features and backlog.
• Knowledge of industry best practices for Product Managers and commitment to continuous professional learning.
• Ability to facilitate productive meetings that drive product outcomes.
• Familiarity with technical concepts to effectively communicate with development teams (APIs architectures CI/CD cloud-native basics).
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or equivalent certification.

Education

• University degree in ICT Business or a related discipline.

Language Proficiency

• Advanced Proficiency in English

Working Policy

• Remote

Contract Duration

• January 2026 December 2030

Security Clearance

• Not Applicable