Head of Product

The role

You will own the product roadmap and bridge the gap between market needs and engineering. You will work hands-on to shape, package, price, and take products to market.

What you will do

• Owning the product roadmap and prioritization
• Translating operator needs and market signals into engineering work
• Writing requirements, shaping features, and prioritizing the backlog
• Helping shape the product portfolio as a modular, scalable line-up
• Owning user experience, usability, onboarding, and training
• Contributing to pricing, packaging, and business models
• Partnering with commercial teams on go-to-market execution
• Monitoring market trends, competitors, and opportunities
• Factoring export control, procurement, and standards into product decisions
• Implementing lightweight product practices

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in product management
• Track record of owning a product roadmap and shipping in a technical product environment
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
• Ability to connect customers and market reality to engineering
• Hands-on mindset to talk to users and write requirements
• Exposure to pricing, packaging, and business-model decisions
• Experience working with commercial teams on go-to-market
• User-obsessed attitude regarding adoption, usability, training, and documentation
• Ability to read a market and turn trends into product opportunities
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills

Nice to have

• Domain experience in defence, drones/UAV, aerospace, or other dual-use or high-stakes technology
• Experience navigating regulated environments such as export control, procurement, certification, or standards
• Experience as an early or first dedicated product hire

Benefits

• Equity participation
• Competitive compensation
• 25 vacation days per year
• Reimbursed travel expenses
• Company laptop
• (Really) flexible working hours
• Hybrid setup around Delft office

About the company

Fiducial is a young but fast-growing deep-tech start-up developing software for advanced on-board UAV situational awareness in military applications. The team consists of engineers working in the Aerospace Innovation Hub on the TU Delft campus.