Product Development Lead at Arridex Limited

Arridex is a trusted leader in industrial innovation, delivering tailored solutions that enhance resilience and sustainable development across critical sectors. With a legacy spanning more than two decades in West Africa’s industrial landscape, we have evolved from a trusted asset integrity solutions provider into an industrial technology partner, offering solutions that address critical operational challenges.

Our deep understanding of local challenges affecting industrial operations, coupled with our commitment to technological advancement and innovation, allows us to offer a lot of value to our stakeholders.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Development Lead

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time (Permanent)

Overview

• We are seeking a senior Product Development Lead to own the product vision, roadmap, and commercial logic for a portfolio of advanced technology platforms.
• This is a leadership role sitting at the intersection of customer reality, engineering capability, and business strategy.
• The successful candidate will define what gets built, why it gets built, and how it reaches the market.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and defend the product roadmap across multiple hardware platform programmes
• Conduct direct discovery with end users and key stakeholders in target sectors to establish and maintain customer truth
• Make prioritisation and build-versus-defer decisions in a resource-constrained, fast-moving development environment
• Own the commercial logic of each product: target buyer, value proposition, pricing structure, and margin expectations
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable engineering briefs and programme milestones
• Manage the product lifecycle from concept through to handoff for scale production
• Represent the organisation credibly in technical, commercial, and government stakeholder engagements

Requirements

• Demonstrable track record in senior product leadership for complex hardware, defence, or dual-use technology systems
• Fluency across engineering fundamentals, manufacturing economics, and go-to-market strategy
• Direct experience engaging with government, military, or critical infrastructure buyers
• Strong grasp of cost structures, throughput trade-offs, and the economics of hardware at scale
• Ability to command credibility in both technical engineering reviews and C-suite or procurement conversations
• Nigerian nationals strongly preferred; candidates with relevant West African market knowledge are at an advantage

Preferred Background:

• Background in maritime, defence, or industrial technology sectors
• Experience managing products through Nigerian or West African government procurement processes
• Exposure to additive manufacturing or advanced manufacturing-led product development

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: staffing@arridex.com using the job title as the subject of the email.