USV Product Manager

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements

• Significant experience in uncrewed systems, autonomous systems, defence technology, maritime systems, aerospace, robotics, or a closely related field
• Strong understanding of the USV supplier market, vehicle architectures, payload options, autonomy stacks, communications links, and mission software
• Product or capability leadership experience, including strategy, roadmap ownership, requirements definition, and business case development
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into structured product decisions, system-level requirements, and practical delivery plans
• Good understanding of maritime surveillance missions, such as border security, EEZ monitoring, illegal fishing, port security, ISR, and critical infrastructure protection
• Familiarity with sensor payloads such as radar, EO/IR, AIS, sonar, RF detection, acoustic systems, or other maritime intelligence sources
• Systems-engineering literacy sufficient to assess integration feasibility, interface dependencies, and supplier claims
• Commercial awareness, including experience evaluating suppliers and assessing cost models
• Confident customer-facing communication skills and the ability to work with senior stakeholders, operational users, technical teams, and external partners

Responsibilities

• Own our USV product and capability strategy for maritime surveillance, security, and domain awareness
• Map the supplier landscape across platforms, payloads, autonomy, communications, mission control, data services, and operational support models
• Help define partners and integration recommendations that balance capability, cost, delivery risk, and strategic value
• Translate customer missions into system concepts, operational use cases, requirements, acceptance criteria, and verification approaches
• Develop reference solution architectures for integrating USV assets into our maritime domain awareness software platform
• Shape integrations for sensor data, telemetry, video, AIS, radar, EO/IR, mission tasking, platform health, alerts, and track fusion
• Lead customer workshops, demonstrations, discovery sessions, and bid support for USV-enabled solutions
• Own the USV roadmap, including supplier evaluations, pilots, field trials, platform integrations, and repeatable delivery packages
• Work across our product, engineering, delivery, commercial, legal, and operations teams to turn strategy into deployed customer capability
• Build our internal knowledge of UxV operating models, regulatory considerations, through-life costs, safety cases, and support requirements

Technologies:

• Support
• PLC
• Robotics
• Security
• Sonar
• Product Manager

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We are SRT Marine Systems plc, a UK-headquartered multinational and market leader in international marine surveillance technology and systems, serving customers worldwide—from national coast guards to individual vessel owners. Our technologies support maritime domain awareness and contribute to security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. We are ambitious, innovation-focused, and committed to providing a rewarding and challenging workplace where talented people can make a meaningful impact. This is an opportunity to build our uncrewed systems offering, initially across uncrewed sea vessels (USVs) and potentially broader UxV domains. The role sits within our product organisation and is based at our Bristol office, with hybrid-working flexibility and global travel required to support our business and project delivery. We offer private healthcare, a highly competitive salary, 25 days of annual leave rising to 28 days with service, and individual development opportunities. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

last updated 41 week of 2026