Job description
Product Manager
Location:
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Type:
Fulltime
In today’s world of constant global security challenges, innovation in defense is no luxury. After years of budget cuts, military personnel needs to train and work with inadequate and insufficient equipment. We have an opportunity to change that.
At Intelic, we are a group of highly committed professionals building one of the fastest-growing start-ups based in Amsterdam. We create advanced software for unmanned systems in the defense sector. As a software company at our core, we build intelligence that gives unmanned platforms the speed, coordination and reliability that critical missions demand. Our technology ensures that decisions are made with accuracy when it matters most.
Responsibilities
As a Product Manager at Intelic, you will take ownership of shaping the direction of our mission autonomy platform. You will be responsible for discovering the most valuable problems to solve, ensuring that our teams focus on outcomes that matter for operators in the field, and guiding product discovery with engineers and designers to arrive at effective solutions.
In practice, this means:
• Partnering closely with a product designer and tech lead in an empowered product team to discover and deliver solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
• Engaging directly with defense operators and stakeholders to uncover real problems and opportunities through continuous discovery: interviews, observations, data analysis, and experiments.
• Defining and communicating clear objectives and key results (OKRs) that align your team’s work with company and mission goals.
• Balancing vision, strategy, and iteration: knowing when to push innovation and when to deliver foundational capabilities.
• Ensuring decisions are guided by evidence and insights rather than opinions, by applying hypothesis-driven product discovery.
• Collaborating across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to align priorities, communicate strategy, and ensure successful product adoption in the field.
What You Will Bring
For you, product management is about driving outcomes, not managing backlog items. You thrive in empowered teams where you can deeply engage with customers, shape direction, and ensure that what you build truly makes an impact. You are as comfortable in the field with operators as you are in strategy sessions, always bridging user needs, technology possibilities, and business realities.
This includes:
• Proven experience in product management, preferably in complex or mission-critical domains.
• Familiarity with continuous discovery practices and a strong customer-first mindset.
• The ability to define clear problem statements, outcomes, and success metrics, and to keep a team focused on them.
• Comfort working with engineers and designers in discovery and delivery, co-creating solutions that are valuable, usable, and feasible.
• Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders, defend priorities, and build shared understanding across the company.
• A willingness to occasionally join field activities and interact directly with military end-users to understand their operational context.
Our Tech Stack
• Discovery: Continuous interviews, product analytics, prototype testing, data analysis
• Collaboration: GitHub, Linear, Slack, Miro, FigJam
• Delivery: Agile, empowered product team practices
• Validation: OKRs, feedback loops, real-world testing with operators
What Success Looks Like in Your First Year
• You have established a continuous discovery cadence with your product team, ensuring product decisions are rooted in real operator needs.
• You have delivered key product outcomes that directly improve mission effectiveness and adoption in the field.
• You’ve aligned stakeholders around a clear product strategy and roadmap, connecting company vision with user impact.
• You have demonstrated measurable impact through validated outcomes, not just shipped features.
Why Join Intelic
• Empowered Teams: Work in a product trio model with engineering and design, owning outcomes rather than delivering features on request.
• Scale-up Momentum: Join at a pivotal growth stage where product management will shape both the product and the company.
• Direct User Impact: See your decisions play out in the field, influencing mission success and operator safety.
• Meaningful Outcomes: Contribute to mission-critical technology that improves security and effectiveness.
• Culture of Learning: Apply continuous discovery and OKRs to constantly learn, measure, and improve.
What we offer
At Intelic, you will be part of an ambitious scale-up where teamwork, learning and impact drive everything we do. Growth happens quickly here, giving you the chance to take ownership and shape your career from the start. We build together and back our people with benefits that support life in and out of work.
Benefits & Perks:
• Travel allowance coverage
• A flexible pension plan
• The opportunity to contribute directly to our growing company’s culture and operations
• A modern office at the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam Noord — and soon, a brand-new location
• A corporate membership at Urban Sports
• 25 vacation days + 8% holiday allowance
• Be part of our success through a Stock Appreciation Rights program
• Possibility to lease a bike through ‘Lease a Bike’
We look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you. If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Mitchell at mitchell@intelic.ai