Engineering Manager Product Team

At Optics11 we are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary Product Team working at the intersection of hardware and software.

At Optics11 we are building one of Europes most exciting deep-tech scale-up environments developing advanced fiber optic sensing technology that protects critical infrastructure across underwater security energy and industrial applications.

In this role you will lead a group of engineers responsible for delivering complete product solutions that combine hardware and software capabilities. Your focus will be on building strong teams enabling effective execution and ensuring predictable delivery of product features and releases. Rather than defining technical solutions yourself your role is to create the environment structure and team dynamics in which engineers can perform at their best and successfully deliver high-quality products.

This position sits at the intersection of people leadership product delivery and cross-functional collaboration ensuring that product development remains aligned efficient and scalable.

What will you do

Lead and develop a high-performing team

• Coach mentor and grow engineers across multiple disciplines

• Drive performance management feedback and career development

• Build a collaborative accountable and high-performing team culture

• Hire and onboard new engineers to strengthen team capability

Enable predictable product delivery

• Ensure the team delivers product features and releases in a predictable and sustainable way

• Align team capacity with product priorities and roadmap

• Balance delivery speed quality and long-term sustainability

• Provide clear visibility on progress risks and dependencies

Support product execution and integration

• Work closely with Product Owners to support delivery of defined scope

• Collaborate with System Engineering to ensure alignment with system architecture

• Coordinate across disciplines to ensure smooth integration

• Support readiness for product releases

Improve ways of working

• Continuously improve development processes workflows and collaboration

• Remove blockers and increase team effectiveness

• Optimize planning coordination and execution

• Drive improvements in tooling and engineering efficiency

Collaborate across teams

• Work closely with platform teams to ensure availability of required capabilities

• Align product development with platform evolution

• Facilitate communication across teams and disciplines

• Support effective cross-team coordination and dependency management

Enable high-quality product delivery

• Create the conditions for delivering reliable well-integrated and maintainable product solutions

• Support strong engineering practices testing and validation

• Ensure product readiness for integration and release

Why Join Us

• Join one of Europes most promising deep-tech scale-ups

• Lead a critical platform team at the core of our technology

• Shape the future of a rapidly growing multidisciplinary R&D organization

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Enjoy regular team activities and company events

• Fresh team lunches provided3 times/ week

What You Bring

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams of 1015 engineers

• Strong people leadership and coaching skills

• Experience working in product development environments

• Strong understanding of engineering development processes and product development cycles

• Strong communication skills and ability to work across multiple teams

• Strong understanding of cross-functional collaboration and system integration

• Ability to improve team performance processes and delivery

• MSc in Electrical Engineering Applied Physics Systems Engineering or a related technical field

We believe in:

• clear ownership and strong collaboration

• empowered teams and technical leadership

• continuous improvement and learning

• building scalable and reusable solutions

Youll be working with clients in the defense and security sectors obtaining a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service) is mandatory. This means you will need to undergo a security screening. For more information please refer to details on security screening.

More information

So now you know were doing awesome projects and if you see you fit the profile we would like to get to know you. Apply or in case of questions get in touch with our recruiter Dóra Öveges ().