Junior Product Manager (Eksma TU Start)
You studied physics or engineering, and you are not sure you want to spend the next ten years in a lab or behind a simulation. This job might suit you. You will work with laser optics, but also with the people who buy it: engineers at laser companies, research labs and manufacturers around the world.
You don’t need work experience: one of our product managers will teach you the job over the first three months. And if you already have a year or a few behind you, in optics, lasers, electronics or technical sales, we would like to hear from you too. You will simply move faster.
- Location
- Vilnius, Dvarčionių g. 2B (on‑site)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Salary, no work experience
- €1,800–2,300 gross / month
- Salary, 1–3 years of experience
- €2,300–2,900 gross / month
- You will learn from
- A product manager, who will be your mentor
- Start
- Early 2027
About Eksma Optics
Eksma Optics has manufactured precision optics in Vilnius since 1983. We make optics for defence, medical, industrial and scientific customers around the world. In 2025 the company was acquired by Zabolis Partners, and since then we have been rebuilding it around a “manufacturing as a service” model: coatings, aspheric and flat optics, optomechanics and assembly under one roof.
€19.8 million in sales, 20% growth, a €20 million investment programme in production, twelve strategic initiatives, and the first of them is culture.
Our four beliefs: we work as one; we believe there is always a better way; we embrace uncertainty; we fight.
What the job is
A customer writes: “I need a mirror for 1030 nm, this size, this damage threshold. Can you make it, how fast, and how much?” Somebody has to answer that. At Eksma Optics that person is the product manager.
To answer, you need to understand the physics, know what our production can and cannot do, check with suppliers, and calculate the price. Then you explain it all to the customer in plain English. Each product manager looks after one group of products, such as optical components or Pockels cells and their electronics.
You will start as a junior next to one of them. At first you watch how they do it and ask a lot of questions. After a few weeks you prepare the simpler quotations yourself and your mentor checks them. By the third month you handle most requests on your own, and for one week you cover for your mentor completely.
What you will do day to day
- Read customer requests and work out what they actually need.
- Prepare quotations: the technical part, the price and the delivery time.
- Go to production and quality control to ask whether something can be made and measured.
- Get prices and lead times from suppliers.
- Keep product descriptions and specifications correct on our website and in our systems.
- Join calls with customers, first to listen, later to speak.
Open positions
- Optics and optical systems: 2 positions
- Electro-optics and electronics: 1 position
- RFQ Engineer: 1 position. Here you prepare quotations for all product groups instead of one, so you get to know the whole range quickly. It can lead to a product manager role too. If you can’t decide which suits you better, apply anyway and we will figure it out together.
Who we are looking for
- You are finishing or have finished studies in physics, optics, photonics, electronics or electrical engineering.
- You like to get to the bottom of things, and you ask when you don’t know.
- You can write an email and hold a conversation in English.
- You want to work with people, not only with equipment.
No experience? That is fine, this programme was built for you. We will teach you everything from the first quotation onwards.
Already have 1–3 years of experience? Also welcome. If you have worked in a lab, in production or with customers in a technical field, you will skip the basics and take on your own requests sooner. The salary reflects that.
What we offer
- A mentor who has time for you. Teaching you is part of their job for these three months.
- Real work from the first month. Your quotations go to real customers.
- Production on site. You can walk over and see how the thing you are quoting is made.
- A clear next step: product manager of your own product group.
- Salary of €1,800–2,300 gross per month if you have no work experience, or €2,300–2,900 gross per month with 1–3 years of experience.
- Accident insurance, contributions to a third-pillar pension fund, and health insurance after the probation period.
How to apply
Send your CV to Kristina
Email Kristina at k.zavoronok@eksmaoptics.com or apply through LinkedIn.
No cover letter needed. Just add a couple of sentences about what you study or studied and why this caught your eye.