Product Owner – Theia

Job description

About the Role Theia is SynMax's maritime intelligence platform — used by naval forces, defence agencies, and commercial operators to monitor and understand vessel activity at global scale. It is the company's primary product and the centre of its most significant customer relationships. The Product Owner sits between the Head of Product's strategic direction and the engineering team's daily delivery. Their job is to translate 'what we're building and why' into 'how it works, what done looks like, and what trade-offs are acceptable.' They are the person engineering turns to daily for product decisions that require genuine understanding of the customer, the domain, and how the product is used. This role exists because product strategy and engineering execution operate at different altitudes. The Head of Product sets direction at the 6–24 month horizon. Engineering works sprint-by-sprint. The Product Owner bridges that gap — taking strategic intent and producing detailed, implementable requirements, then making the continuous stream of scoping, quality, and priority decisions that arise during development. Without this role, every domain-level product decision routes to the Head of P...