Director Marketing (all genders)

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 and Exhibition. 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