Product Manager | ZETTA AI Box

About ZETTA

ZETTA Critical AI is a European deep-tech company building sovereign, mission-critical AI for defence, law enforcement, intelligence and public institutions. We bring 10+ years of AI and NLP research and development, and we are certified ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001.

ZETTA AI Box is our flagship product: a compact, on-premise Agentic AI appliance built on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip. It runs fully offline, with no cloud and no external APIs, and turns documents, audio, images and video in any language into investigation-ready intelligence. One built-in AI Agent drives the whole workflow: collect, search, connect, answer, report. Learn more at https://www.zettabox.ai.

The role

We are looking for a senior Product Manager to own the vision for ZETTA AI Box. You will define where the product is going and why, translate it into a roadmap and a prioritised backlog, and be the voice of our users in every decision. You will work closely with our CTO on how we build it and with Delivery on how it ships, so you can focus on building the right product.

• Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania (hybrid), with occasional travel to clients and partners
• Contract: Full-time employment
• Works with: R\&D and engineering, Sales and pre-sales, Delivery, international partners

What you will do

Product vision and strategy

• Turn the company's direction into a clear, shared product vision for ZETTA AI Box, agreed across leadership, R\&D and Sales.
• Define each release: scope, success criteria and what is explicitly out.
• Own the product roadmap across all product areas, such as the Core platform, the Agentic layer and vertical packages like Case Intelligence.
• Influence how the product is sold: shape packaging, tiers and licensing together with Sales, and make sure the roadmap supports active deals and tenders

Product ownership and delivery

• Own and prioritise the product backlog (Jira): epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, definition of done.
• Work with Delivery and engineering to plan what comes next, take part in reviews and demos, and accept or reject delivered work against clear acceptance criteria.
• Own the UX direction: work with UX designers on user journeys, workflows and prototypes to deliver a clear, efficient experience for analysts and investigators working on complex cases
• Make trade-offs between AI capabilities (LLM and agents, speech-to-text, translation, OCR, entity extraction, video analysis), hardware constraints and delivery time.
• Keep security, auditability and compliance (air-gapped operation, human-in-the-loop, EU AI Act) built into requirements from day one.

Customers, market and partners

• Gather and structure requirements from end users, tender specifications, pilots and field deployments.
• Support pre-sales with product demos, technical answers and roadmap input for bids.
• Work with international partners and resellers on localisation, certification and market-specific needs.
• Track the competitive landscape in sovereign and on-premise AI, and feed it into the roadmap.
• Own product documentation, release notes and the product's feature narrative for marketing.

What you bring

• 5+ years in product management or product ownership, including at least one AI/ML product taken from concept to customers (GenAI, LLM or agentic products preferred).
• Technical background: former engineer, architect or technical lead, comfortable discussing LLMs, RAG, agents, speech and vision models, and on-premise deployment with engineers at their level.
• Proven ability to turn ambiguous input into a realistic roadmap and a well-groomed backlog.
• Strong UX sense for complex, data-heavy professional tools.
• Hands-on with Agile/Scrum and Jira.
• Clear decision-making and the confidence to say no, with the reasoning written down.
• Fluent English, written and spoken. Romanian is a strong plus.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware or appliance products (edge devices, GPU systems, offline update cycles).
• Experience with B2G, defence, law enforcement or other regulated customers, including working from tender specifications and public procurement requirements.
• Background in OSINT, digital forensics, investigative or intelligence analysis tools.
• Familiarity with the EU AI Act, ISO 27001 / ISO 42001, or security accreditation processes.
• Experience launching a product with international partners or resellers.

What we offer

• Real ownership of a flagship AI product, with a direct say in where it goes.
• A product with a clear mission: AI that protects data sovereignty for institutions that cannot use the cloud.
• A senior team with deep AI and NLP research roots, and access to the latest NVIDIA hardware.
• Exposure to international markets and partners.
• Full-time employment contract, competitive package, hybrid work in Cluj-Napoca.

How to apply

Send your CV and a short note on an AI product you shaped (what you decided, and why) to contact@zettacritical.ai.