Product Manager Autonomous Trucking… at Quantum-Systems · Gilching

Join Quantum-Systems and drive mission-critical payload capabilities to make a real impact. As Product Manager Mission Payload Land, you own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for payload capabilities across our Land Domain Vehicle Portfolio.

You operate at the intersection of customer value, technical feasibility, and commercial viability; working in tight collaboration with payload providers and internal engineering teams. You balance tactical mission requirements against platform constraints, make build-or-buy trade-offs consciously, and define high-value ConOps and payload configurations that the organization can execute against.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

• End-to-End Product Management: Own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle management for mission payload integration across the UGV portfolio from discovery and concept validation to operational deployment

• Market Screening & Ecosystem Management: Screen the market to identify, evaluate, and stand up partnerships with payload vendors across the domains ISR, Electronic Warfare, Communications, Combat Engineering, Logistics, and more

• Continuous Discovery & Experimentation: Drive prototyping and experimental integration of partner payloads including mechanical, E/E, and software integration interfaces and assess performance and usability

• Build-or-Buy & Productization: Prioritize payload capabilities based on mission utility and drive formal build-or-buy decisions for high-value use cases

• Engineering & Vendor Collaboration: Serve as the functional bridge between external payload suppliers, customer stakeholders, and internal engineering teams

• Iterative Delivery: Consolidate customer, user, and field operational insights to set product priorities and continuously convert requirements into shipped capabilities