Director Marketing (all genders)

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.

As the Director of Marketing you are responsible for a team of ca 8 people, reporting directly to you.

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

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