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Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Group Overview
The Digital and Synthetic Group (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.
Position Summary
As Product Lead – Decision Advantage Software, you will be responsible for building the roadmap for our best-in-class situational awareness products. You will collaborate with customers and senior stakeholders, collect as much information as you can about the opportunity space, and decide which features and initiatives will add the most value to our users and customers. You will lead a team of Product Owners, aligning the roadmaps and making critical decisions within the product area. The ideal candidate is an experienced product leader who understands how to get to the signal through a lot of noise, prioritise and continuously evaluate product developments, and is aware of the difficulties associated with deploying software in regulated environments.
What You'll Do
- Continuously evaluate the opportunity space, customer use cases, and Metrea’s strategy and build a suite of independently viable products that also interoperate within an ecosystem
- Develop an understanding of Metrea’s unique strategy, value propositions, and Firmware (see below), and ensure the team continues to develop in this area
- Spend time with users, customers, and other internal stakeholders to build your own intuition of ‘what good looks like’, as well as capture as much data as possible relating to your products
- Continuously evaluate the health of the suite of products, ensure that they are delivering against their value cases, and course-correct when needed
- Establish and continuously improve systems of work, empowering your team to deliver in a complex environment
What You Bring
- Understanding of situational awareness / decision advantage software and its use cases is highly desired, such as operations room software or sensor-integrated data platforms, especially within the military / government sector
- Curiosity to learn more about Metrea’s unique purpose and mission, embrace our values, and spend time with your teammates
- Experience building business cases, product metrics, and setting product strategy
- Understanding of Agile software development, preferably within a complex product architecture where multiple versions are developed concurrently
- Knowledge of the aerospace environment and the challenges associated with delivering solutions to government customers. Military or government experience is desired
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
You will be required to obtain security clearance for this role. Details of this can be discussed in the interview process.
Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
- Electric Car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension scheme
- Free lunch on office days
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- 30 days annual PTO plus b/h
- Bonus Scheme
- Personal development opportunities
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea Management Limited (MAM) (edit as per capability) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting and also requires you to occasionally work on the platforms where our software is deployed (aircraft, operations centres, etc.)
Travel
Travel will be required from your base location of London to our other site in Harwell. You may also be required to visit partners and the sites where our aircraft operate which may be within the UK or abroad.
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
