Product Manager 80-100% (m/f/d)

You combine strategic foresight with implementation strength

As a Senior Product Manager, you take on end-to-end responsibility for one or more products from the product portfolio – including content-related, qualitative and economic responsibility.

You manage particularly demanding, business-critical or strategically relevant products with high professional, regulatory or economic significance and act as a professional point of reference within the product organisation.

You develop a clear product vision and strategy and ensure through active lifecycle management that your products are professionally meaningful, technologically viable and sustainably further developed within the available budgets.

In a highly regulated environment, you respond proactively to legal changes, changing customer needs and technological developments. In doing so, you balance stability and innovation – with the aim of securing the existing customer base in the long term and continuously developing the products towards the future.

What you achieve

Product responsibility & strategy

• End-to-end responsibility for products throughout the entire lifecycle (vision, strategy, further development, launch)
• Development and maintenance of a clear product strategy and product roadmap in coordination with portfolio management, business owners and relevant stakeholders
• Economic management of product development, including cost, budget and prioritisation decisions
• Transparent preparation of costs, benefits and impacts of product decisions as a basis for portfolio and investment decisions
• Active management of conflicts of objectives between legal requirements, customer demands, technical feasibility and available resources
• Development of viable product strategies even under high uncertainty and complex conditions
• Moderation and resolution of demanding conflicts of objectives between customers, departments, regulatory requirements and technical conditions

Requirements management & product design

• Systematic identification and evaluation of customer requirements as well as legal changes
• Derivation and definition of current and future product features (epics, features)
• Professional questioning, co-designing and representing of professional and functional product concepts

Collaboration & implementation

• Close collaboration with agile development teams to ensure high-quality and timely implementation
• Regular professional alignment with customers, development, architecture, testing, user experience and operations
• Promotion of effective, solution-oriented collaboration across team and departmental boundaries
• Professional support and coaching of product managers and junior product managers
• Contribution to the further development of product management standards, methods and decision quality within the organisation

Why you succeed

• Completed higher education (HF/FH/University) in computer science, business informatics, business administration or comparable qualification
• At least 5 years of proven successful experience in product management of complex digital products, ideally in enterprise content management
• Experience in collaboration with/management of user experience and/or solution design
• Proven experience in dealing with high professional, regulatory or organisational complexity
• Ability to make well-founded and viable decisions in different situations
• Sound knowledge of agile product development (Scrum, ideally SAFe®)
• Experience in stakeholder management in complex organisational and system landscapes
• Analytical, structured working style and the ability to understand complex issues
• High quality awareness as well as pronounced customer and solution orientation
• Very good German skills (at least level C1), additional national languages are an advantage

We offer

• Strategically relevant leadership role with great scope for design
• Collaboration with committed colleagues and experts from the social insurance landscape of Switzerland and Liechtenstein
• Flexible working time models, home office and workation options and modern offices in a central location near the main station
• Free smartphone with subscription, half-fare travelcard, attractive training opportunities
• At least 25 days of holiday and a collegial, future-oriented working environment

Become part of our team
Are you ready for a new challenge with a workplace near St. Gallen main station and home office possibility? We look forward to receiving your application documents.

Workplace St. Gallen

IGS GmbH
Ms Susanne Manser
Geltenwilenstrasse 16
9000 St. Gallen
+41 71 246 57 57