From Need to Impact - You Make the Difference

About the job

As a Product Manager, you contribute to the further development of one or more products from our product portfolio and gradually take on responsibility along the entire product lifecycle.

Together with experienced Product Managers, development teams, and subject matter experts, you analyse customer needs, legal changes, and professional requirements, further develop product ideas, and help ensure that our products are developed further in a professionally meaningful, high-quality, and sustainable manner.

In a highly regulated environment, you learn to balance legal requirements, customer demands, technical possibilities, and available resources against each other. In doing so, you make an important contribution to maintaining existing products stably while simultaneously developing them purposefully towards the future.

What you achieve

Product Responsibility & Strategy

Participation in the further development of products throughout the entire lifecycle – from analysis through development to launch

Support in the creation and maintenance of product vision, product strategy, and product roadmap in coordination with experienced Product Managers, Portfolio Management, Business Owners, and relevant stakeholders

Preparation of decision-making bases regarding costs, benefits, impacts, and priorities of product initiatives

Participation in assessing conflicts of objectives between legal requirements, customer demands, technical feasibility, and available resources

Gradual assumption of own product responsibility – depending on experience, maturity, and complexity of the product

Requirements Management & Product Design

Systematic collection, analysis, and structuring of customer requirements, professional needs, and legal changes

Participation in deriving and describing product variants, epics, and features

Professional input and co-design of product concepts in close collaboration with Business Analysis, specialist departments, development, and architecture

Support in evaluating requirements regarding benefits, urgency, feasibility, and impact on existing products

Collaboration & Implementation

Close cooperation with agile development teams to support high-quality and timely implementation

Regular professional exchange with customers, Product Owners, Business Analysis, development, architecture, testing, and operations

Contribution to effective, solution-oriented collaboration across team and departmental boundaries

Support in preparing, accompanying, and following up on coordination with specialist committees and relevant stakeholders

Why you succeed

Completed higher education (HF/FH/University) in computer science, business informatics, business administration, or a comparable qualification

Initial experience in product management, business analysis, project management, or a comparable role in the digital environment

Basic knowledge of agile product development; experience with Scrum or SAFe® is an advantage

Interest in complex professional, organisational, and technical contexts

Analytical, structured working style and enjoyment in familiarising yourself with new topics

Strong customer and solution orientation as well as a high quality awareness

Strong communication skills and enjoyment in collaborating with diverse stakeholders

Very good German skills, additional national languages are an advantage

We offer

Challenging product management role with development prospects and increasing scope for design

Opportunity to familiarise yourself with a complex and socially relevant product environment and gradually take on more responsibility

Collaboration with committed colleagues from the social insurance landscape of Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Flexible working time models, home office and workation options, and modern office spaces in a central location near the main station

Free smartphone with subscription, half-fare travelcard, attractive further training opportunities

At least 25 days of holiday and a collegial, future-oriented working environment

Application process

01Send us your documentsYour skills match our requirements? Then send us your complete dossier via the application form or by email.

02We contact youWe review your documents and either we or our external personnel service provider will contact you for an initial exchange.

03We deepen our acquaintanceAt two meetings at IGS, we see if we are a good fit. And if you like, you can also complete a trial day with us.

04The decision is madeAfterwards, you and our respective recruitment team decide individually whether we want to go a common way and conclude a contract. This is the actual starting signal!

Questions & Answers

Optimal for us are your complete CV, all work references and certificates of education and further training as well as diplomas. Please write two to three sentences explaining why you are interested in this job.

We look forward to receiving an email with your documents as a PDF. Or even better: use the application form on our website, where you can upload your documents directly as a PDF.

Within three working days, you will receive an acknowledgement of receipt from us. Depending on the status of the recruitment process and any (holiday) absences, it may then take two weeks before you receive a response regarding the next steps.

Spontaneous applications are welcome. We are happy to check whether you fit our profiles and whether we have a corresponding vacancy in the near future.

However, depending on the profile, it may take some time before we can provide a conclusive answer. We therefore ask for your patience.

Yes, gladly. We also welcome (speculative) applications from career starters or students who are, for example, looking for holiday jobs or employment as working students.

We currently work with selected recruitment agencies under corresponding contractual agreements. We therefore ask you not to submit dossiers without prior consultation. Thank you for your understanding.

Flexible working hours

Modern working environment, standing desk

Home office possible

Central workplace near main station

Generous opportunities for further training

40-hour week, 5–6 weeks holiday

Business iPhone with Swiss flat rate

Private accident insurance

Contribution to childcare costs