Senior Product Manager (m/f/d)

Hive Robotics is building Europe’s first full-stack orchestration platform for unmanned systems: connecting, controlling, and commanding multi-vendor drone and robot swarms. Our RF communication systems are Made in Germany, deployed on active frontlines, and targeting a highly valued tactical communication market with zero sovereign alternatives today.
As our first dedicated Senior Product Manager, you own the path from customer need to released product: you work directly with customers to understand their missions and their technical and operational constraints, translate what you learn into structured requirements our engineers can build against, and keep delivery on track along the way. Today, product knowledge lives across founders and engineers. Your job is to turn it into a managed asset: a clear requirement base and a product configuration catalogue that sales, engineering, and production all work from. You report to the CTO.
This role is customer-facing by design: expect to spend around 20–30% of your time traveling, working with customers and end-users alongside our sales team. The rest of your week is on-site in Munich, close to the engineers building the product.

This is a broad and demanding role, and we know that. You do not need to tick every box or master every topic from day one. If the core is there and you have the drive to grow into the rest, we want to hear from you.
Must Have

• 5+ years in product management for hardware, robotics, or comparable deep-tech products, ideally in a growing company
• Proven ability to translate customer needs into structured engineering requirements (PRDs, specifications, acceptance criteria)
• Track record of shipping products through the full lifecycle from discovery through launch and post-launch iteration
• Strong technical fluency: you hold your own in hardware and software discussions with engineers
• Hands-on experience with project management tools, for example Jira
• Outstanding communication: as effective in a customer workshop as in an engineering planning session, in writing and in person
• Execution mindset: you treat a slipping timeline as a problem to surface today, not at the next steering meeting
• Willingness to undergo security vetting for customer-site and defense-related work
• Fluent English
• Based in Munich or willing to relocate

Nice to Have

• Advanced German
• Experience with requirements-management and configuration/PLM tooling
• Prior work in defence, aerospace, security, or another regulated environment
• Experience building a product management function from scratch rather than inheriting one