about us
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.

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.
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

- Read the landscape: budgets, programs, procurement cycles and the political context around them and turn it into direction the whole unit acts on.

- Decide which events, campaigns and demonstrations matter. Eliminate the ones that don't.

- Understand how ministries, procurement offices and operators actually evaluate technology, and direct the content that earns their trust.

- Carry what the field teaches you back into product and brand.

- Bring a product into market slash and you should oversee the full lifecycle of go-to-market.

- Build and lead a small, senior team.

- Responsible for Events andeExhibition

qualifications

- As the You know European defence from the inside armed forces, procurement, a ministry, a prime, policy work or serious analysis.

- 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.

- You have seen what a strong brand and design org does for winning trust, and you want to work with one not around it.

- You have standing relationships across the German and European defence ecosystem, and you understand the NATO context.

- 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

This is not for you if
- You want to run loud campaigns. We don't run them.

- You want to reinvent the brand. It isn't yours to reinvent, it's your instrument.

- You need certainty before speed.

​Your ​Recruitment Contact:
Sally ​Grütte-Pad, Interim Lead TA Partner via talent@stark-defence.com