Defence represents one of Emesent’s most significant strategic growth opportunities, and we are investing in the product capability needed to capture and expand that market. You’ll be the product manager driving our defence strategy, working directly with our co-founder. Your job is to find the right opportunities and create alignment around them. You’ll lead the discovery work that separates a promising hunch from a commercially validated bet, and translate what you learn into a clear product direction the team can execute against. This is a high-autonomy role with significant leadership interest — you will operate with limited guidance and your judgement will shape where we invest.
What you’ll do
- Discovery & Opportunity Validation: Lead the discovery work that turns early signal into a validated opportunity. Run structured experiments, customer conversations, and assumption tests that de-risk the bet before we commit further investment. Bring back evidence, not opinion
- Customer & Market Insight: Deeply understand our users’ workflows, pain points, and environments. Conduct field visits, user research, and competitive analysis to ensure product decisions are grounded in real-world evidence
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive alignment across the business —engineering, commercial, and leadership. Get buy-in for important initiatives and manage upwards with clarity
- Go-to-Market Execution: Partner with commercial and marketing teams to develop positioning, pricing, and launch strategies. Ensure users and internal teams are well-prepared for every release
- Product Analytics: Define and monitor key product metrics. Use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions, measure outcomes, and continuously improve the user experience.
What you’ll bring
- 4+ years of experience in product management, with demonstrated ownership of a product or product area end-to-end
- Demonstrated strength in discovery and opportunity validation — you can show how you’ve separated real opportunities from false starts
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making
- Proven ability to work effectively with engineering teams and translate technical complexity into clear product direction
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority across functions and seniority levels
- Entrepreneurial mindset — you thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and have a strong bias for action
- Strong stakeholder management — comfortable working directly with a co-founder and a highly technical team, with the judgement to know when to push back and when to align
- Deep empathy for users and a passion for solving real-world problems in complex operating environments
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira, Amplitude, or similar.
Strongly regarded
- Experience in the defence industry. You’ve delivered technical products to defence users before, are familiar with how defence customers buy, their procurement landscape, and their regulatory environment.
- Experience with deep-tech or hardware-integrated products, where product decisions span physical and digital domains.
- Track record of zero-to-one product development — taking a product from concept through to launch and market traction.
- Experience in the mining, geospatial, or survey industries.
The perks
- Relocation allowance available for the right candidate
- 9-day fortnight — every second Friday off
- Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) — share in Emesent’s success
- Work alongside a friendly and passionate team building cutting-edge technology
- Genuine learning and development opportunities, including access toLinkedIn Learning
- Flexible working arrangements and a casual dress code
- Employee Assistance Program and Qoctor online telehealth
- One full day of leave each year for your work anniversary
Why Emesent?
At Emesent, you’ll work on technology that is genuinely shaping the future of how industries capture and understand the physical world. We offer a dynamic, collaborative environment, competitive compensation, and real opportunities for professional growth. Join us in pushing the boundaries of robotics and spatial intelligence.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in product management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira
What We Do
Emesent is a world-leader in drone autonomy, LiDAR mapping, and data analytics. Our vision is to autonomously map the inaccessible. Founded in 2018, with deep connections to Australia's globally recognized CSIRO, we have been striving towards our vision and rapidly grown into a mid-sized global organization. Emesent has built a reputation for delivering high-quality data capture in the mining, infrastructure, survey, and mapping industries. Our team of 40 roboticists, engineers, and business development experts work side-by-side to deliver revolutionary efficiency, safety, and operational insights to our customers. Our flagship product, Hovermap, is a smart mobile scanning unit that combines advanced collision avoidance and autonomous flight technologies to map hazardous and GPS-denied environments. Its award-winning technology utilizes innovative hardware, advanced algorithms, and machine learning to automate collection and analysis of the physical world. Equally capable above ground or underground, indoors or out, Hovermap is a complete mobile LiDAR mapping solution. Hovermap is uniquely versatile, it can be backpack-, drone-, or vehicle-mounted to map challenging, inaccessible areas enabling our customers to gain insights that were not possible before. With multiple applications across several industries and a rapidly growing customer base, Hovermap and our other solutions are being used commercially for a variety of applications by enterprise customers around the world.
