Compensation & Employment
- Salary: £45,000 – £55,000
- Permanent
About Us
SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting‑edge design, and user‑centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.
What We Offer
- Pension Contribution – Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice.
- Annual Bonus Scheme – Eligibility to participate in the company’s annual discretionary bonus scheme, linked to individual and company performance.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
- Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
- Wellbeing Day – An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
- Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
- Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
Role Summary
As a Product Requirements Manager within our Products Team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of advanced maritime technology. You will ensure the right products enter the market at the right time, with the right capabilities, by combining technical understanding, operational insight, and strategic product thinking. Working closely with engineering, business development, and subject matter experts, you will lead the development of product requirements, capability alignment, and roadmap planning to support Subsea Craft’s mission to push the boundaries of asymmetric maritime operations.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage product requirements, ensuring they are clear, accurate, and grounded in validated technical and operational understanding.
- Identify, prioritise, and align product capabilities by working closely with senior engineers and subject matter experts.
- Develop and maintain a balanced product roadmap that reflects user needs, market insight, technical feasibility, and business priorities.
- Translate complex technical information into clear narratives, specifications, and CONOPs for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Act as the key link across teams, facilitating workshops and technical discussions, ensuring alignment between engineering and business development, and supporting customer engagement with credible technical input.
Qualifications and Experience
- 3+ years technical experience in defence, aerospace, or other high‑assurance engineering domains.
- STEM degree or equivalent technical background. Able to engage confidently with engineers on systems, data, and architecture.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical detail into clear product direction and customer‑focused requirements.
- Experience acting as the bridge between engineering and business development, ensuring feasibility, clarity, and aligned priorities.
- Skilled in building and managing product roadmaps that reflect customer needs, commercial value, and engineering constraints.
- Strong facilitator, able to lead technical discussions, workshops, and cross‑functional planning sessions.
- Adaptable, self‑driven, and comfortable working in fast‑moving technical environments.
- Willing to travel internationally at short notice.
- Able to obtain and maintain UK security clearance (SC minimum).
Highly Desirable
- Comfortable working in unclear situations and with complex defence organisations.
- Well-connected in defence communities, especially in SOF, scientific or intelligence networks.
- Former defence role or SOF background.
Values
Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially‑adept.
What We Expect From You
- Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
- Initiative and independent working
- Honesty and integrity
- Business and commercial awareness
- Agility, adaptability and continuous development
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Security & Clearance Requirements
Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). UK National security clearance is required for certain roles.
All offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre‑employment checking stages.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to everyone. If you are shortlisted, we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). We may retain your details for future suitable roles unless you advise us otherwise.
For details of how we process your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Notice.
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- Salary: £45,000 – £55,000
- Permanent
About Us
SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting‑edge design, and user‑centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.
What We Offer
- Pension Contribution – Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice.
- Annual Bonus Scheme – Eligibility to participate in the company’s annual discretionary bonus scheme, linked to individual and company performance.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
- Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
- Wellbeing Day – An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
- Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
- Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
Role Summary
As a Product Requirements Manager within our Products Team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of advanced maritime technology. You will ensure the right products enter the market at the right time, with the right capabilities, by combining technical understanding, operational insight, and strategic product thinking. Working closely with engineering, business development, and subject matter experts, you will lead the development of product requirements, capability alignment, and roadmap planning to support Subsea Craft’s mission to push the boundaries of asymmetric maritime operations.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage product requirements, ensuring they are clear, accurate, and grounded in validated technical and operational understanding.
- Identify, prioritise, and align product capabilities by working closely with senior engineers and subject matter experts.
- Develop and maintain a balanced product roadmap that reflects user needs, market insight, technical feasibility, and business priorities.
- Translate complex technical information into clear narratives, specifications, and CONOPs for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Act as the key link across teams, facilitating workshops and technical discussions, ensuring alignment between engineering and business development, and supporting customer engagement with credible technical input.
Qualifications and Experience
- 3+ years technical experience in defence, aerospace, or other high‑assurance engineering domains.
- STEM degree or equivalent technical background. Able to engage confidently with engineers on systems, data, and architecture.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical detail into clear product direction and customer‑focused requirements.
- Experience acting as the bridge between engineering and business development, ensuring feasibility, clarity, and aligned priorities.
- Skilled in building and managing product roadmaps that reflect customer needs, commercial value, and engineering constraints.
- Strong facilitator, able to lead technical discussions, workshops, and cross‑functional planning sessions.
- Adaptable, self‑driven, and comfortable working in fast‑moving technical environments.
- Willing to travel internationally at short notice.
- Able to obtain and maintain UK security clearance (SC minimum).
Highly Desirable
- Comfortable working in unclear situations and with complex defence organisations.
- Well-connected in defence communities, especially in SOF, scientific or intelligence networks.
- Former defence role or SOF background.
Values
Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially‑adept.
What We Expect From You
- Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
- Initiative and independent working
- Honesty and integrity
- Business and commercial awareness
- Agility, adaptability and continuous development
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Security & Clearance Requirements
Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). UK National security clearance is required for certain roles.
All offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre‑employment checking stages.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to everyone. If you are shortlisted, we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). We may retain your details for future suitable roles unless you advise us otherwise.
For details of how we process your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Notice.
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