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Saab Global
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Head of Design, Product Unit Fighter Radar

Göteborg,
Sweden
Closing date: 12 April 2026

Do you imagine a career that constantly stretches your capabilities and offers you an opportunity to work with the technologies of the future? We offer an exciting opportunity to join a global company with a mission to make our society safer!

Your role

You will be a part of PU Fighter Radar and its management team. You will report to the Head of Product Unit Fighter Radar.

As manager you will have an important role within this PU:

  • To be responsible for and lead the four design teams of hardware and software for our product portfolio

  • To lead the product design, maintenance and sustainment of all our products

  • Supporting technical aspects of the product unit’s design strategy, product roadmap and product release plans.

  • Lead the unit in the Integrated Product Creation (IPC) -process and applicable regulations

  • Communicate with internal and external stakeholders to align technology and modularization

  • To develop the efficiency of our hardware and software design’s ways of working

All with the main purpose of securing efficient and timely product development, quality and customer satisfaction.

Business Unit Fighter Core Capabilities is a business unit within Saab Surveillance and has around 2000 employees. The Business Unit provides airborne sensors, avionics and self-protection solutions and has a strong presence in the global defense and security markets.

The Product Unit Fighter Radar is responsible for the business of Fighter Radar, Weapon Data Link and Missile Electronics. Furthermore, we are responsible for technical development within Fire Control Radars and Electronic Counter Measure systems and drive substantial R&D programs with the latest sensor technology. Product Unit Fighter Radar has around 160 employees.

Your profile

Are you our next Head of Design?

For this role, we are looking for someone who likes to develop and challenge themselves as well as its team members. To be successful in this position you need to have the ability to motivate and engage others but also be able to organize, prioritize and take decisions to improve performance and profitability.

 We also assume that you have:

  • Communicative, structured and performance driven ways of working

  • Strong business understanding, customer focus and product development experience

  • A genuine interest in complex technical product development and cooperation across sites

  • Ability to set short and long term strategy and goals for the product development

  • Ability to plan the product development to reach required time, cost and quality needed

  • Focus on importance of building cross functional relationships with both internal external stakeholders

Last but not least, you have the ability to create a collaborative work environment with transparency, respect and trust among your employees. You support Surveillance overall culture program “Together as One”.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world. 

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.