About this role
About Us <span style="font-size:14px;">STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments.<br><br>We’re focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems - not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe - today.</span> About the team As the Director of Marketing you are responsible for a team of ca 8 people, reporting directly to you. Your mission Nothing in our market is bought off a campaign. Your job is to know the European defence landscape well enough to tell us where to show up, when, and why and to be measured on outcomes, not impressions. Responsibilities <ul><li>Read the landscape: budgets, programs, procurement cycles and the political context around them and turn it into direction the whole unit acts on.</li><li>Decide which events, campaigns and demonstrations matter. Eliminate the ones that don't.</li><li>Understand how ministries, procurement offices and operators actually evaluate technology, and direct the content that earns their trust.</li><li>Carry what the field teaches you back into product and brand.</li><li>Bring a product into market slash and you should oversee the full lifecycle of go-to-market.</li><li>Build and lead a small, senior team.</li><li>Responsible for Events andeExhibition</li></ul> Qualifications <ul><li>As the You know European defence from the inside armed forces, procurement, a ministry, a prime, policy work or serious analysis.</li><li>You think in decision journeys how a procurement officer, an operator and a minister each come to trust a system whether or not you've ever called it that.</li><li>You have seen what a strong brand and design org does for winning trust, and you want to work with one not around it.</li><li>You have standing relationships across the German and European defence ecosystem, and you understand the NATO context.</li><li>You know the establishment without thinking like it, you belong to the tech- and software-defined, AI-native generation of defence, where things move in months</li></ul><br><b style="font-weight:700;">This is not for you if</b><ul><li>You want to run loud campaigns. We don't run them.</li><li>You want to reinvent the brand. It isn't yours to reinvent, it's your instrument.</li><li>You need certainty before speed.</li></ul><br><br>Your Recruitment Contact:<br>Sally Grütte-Pad, Interim Lead TA Partner via [email protected]<br><br>