Readiness stopped being paperworkArmed forces spend almost all of their existence preparing for a day they hope never comes. Readiness is the whole of that work — how forces are trained, how that training is planned across years and budgets, how performance is assessed, and whether anyone can demonstrate, with evidence rather than assertion, that a unit can do what is being asked of it.
For a generation, much of Europe treated this as an administrative exercise. It is not one now. The institutions we serve are rebuilding readiness at a pace and scale they have not attempted in decades, and they are being asked to prove it as they go.
Exonaut is the platform they do it on.
Why this is a hard product jobThe work is not difficult because the screens are complicated. It is difficult because of what the evidence has to survive.
A readiness assessment written today may be read years from now by someone deciding whether a unit is fit to deploy, or by an auditor asking how a conclusion was reached. It has to hold up. That means information with structure and provenance rather than a document anyone can quietly overwrite, systems that pass security review before they are allowed anywhere near a network, and working alongside the tools an institution already runs and has no intention of abandoning.
It also means respecting how these institutions actually work. They have doctrine, terminology and processes established long before we arrived, and they will not reshape them to suit a piece of software. Yet a platform that bends to every customer in turn stops being a platform at all.
That tension is the job: what belongs in the core, what stays configurable, and what we decline to build. Get those calls right and the platform compounds. Get them wrong and it becomes a very expensive spreadsheet.
The roleYou will own a product area outright, as a senior individual contributor — the judgement, the strategy and the outcome, not a backlog to administer.
Which area you take on is settled with you, once we understand where your strengths land. We would rather match a strong product manager to the right problem than hire against a box we wrote before we met you.
Day to day:
What We Are Looking For
Merits, not requirements:
Domain knowledge can be learned. Product judgement is harder to teach, so that is what we weight most heavily.
Security and citizenshipBecause of the customers we serve, this role requires Swedish citizenship. Holding another citizenship in addition is not a barrier.
The role is subject to a security check before you start, and we take up ordinary employment references. We will explain exactly what that involves early in the process — nothing about it should surprise you late on.
How We HireWe publish our process, because a good interview should not be a surprise. You will meet:
Every interview has a written script and a scored rubric, applied the same way for every candidate. We tell you what each session covers before it happens.
PracticalitiesStockholm-based and hybrid: we expect office presence, with flexibility around it. Permanent, full-time.
Apply with your CV and a short note on one product decision you got right and one you got wrong.
