Product Manager IT & Digital Platforms for Education and Culture (a)

12 October 2026
100%
Permanent position
German (Intermediate)
Ruopigenplatz 1, 6015 Luzern

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Product Manager IT & Digital Platforms for Education and Culture (a)

80% - 100% | Lucerne | Home office possible

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Digital platforms today shape how education is delivered, culture is made accessible, and public services are provided. As a central interface between business and IT, you actively shape the digital and strategic development of the IT and service platforms of the Department of Education and Culture (BKD) of the Canton of Lucerne. In a complex, cross-departmental ownership role, you are responsible for the holistic management of a business-critical platform landscape in the education and culture context, linking strategic objectives with sustainable operational implementation. Focus is placed on consistent value orientation, regulatory security, and digital sovereignty, as well as optimising cost structures and public value creation within the framework of the digital transformation of the education and culture sector.

Your tasks

You are responsible for the further development of the product and platform vision for the digital education and cultural services of the Canton of Lucerne and ensure their consistency with the digital and administrative strategy. In doing so, you anchor business value, digital sovereignty, compliance, scalability, and economic sustainability as central control dimensions.
Together with the Department of Education and Culture, you manage the entire product and platform lifecycle and are responsible for portfolio decisions, investments, and priorities across complex system landscapes, dependencies, and regulatory frameworks.
You develop and establish an integrated, service-oriented operating model and define governance structures, role models, as well as binding decision-making and escalation mechanisms with clear responsibilities across product, platform, architecture, and delivery.
You transform existing organisational and system landscapes into a scalable, product- and platform-oriented service organisation and establish a sustainable lean agile and value delivery control culture together with stakeholders.
You ensure strategic alignment with internal and external stakeholders, prepare data-, risk- and scenario-based decision-making foundations for the executive level, and are responsible for translating strategic decisions into sustainable operational impact.

Your profile

University degree in computer science, business administration, or a comparable discipline with a pronounced ability to effectively connect technology, organisation, and strategy.
Many years of experience in the enterprise IT environment in a leadership role with a proven track record in product management, platform control, and the transformation of complex organisations.
Deep understanding of IT governance, security, and compliance as well as modern cloud- and API-based system landscapes with experience in platform and integration architectures at the enterprise level.
Solid experience in strategic portfolio, investment, and roadmap management as well as in the use of data-based decision-making foundations such as KPIs, SLAs, and SLOs to manage business value, performance, and risks.
A strong leadership personality with a high ownership mentality, pronounced implementation strength, and confident stakeholder and supplier management with the ability to translate different interests into viable and strategically consistent solutions.

What you can look forward to

Our fields of impact are as diverse as we are.
Environment, infrastructure, finance, security, health, education and much more - together we shape the Canton of Lucerne.

With us, you will progress.
We offer attractive and exciting career and development opportunities - both in leadership and for subject matter experts.

We work flexibly and smartly.
Mobile-flexible working has a high priority with us. More than half of our employees work part-time and realise their professional goals in harmony with their private commitments.

You benefit with us.
Attractive further training offers , discount platforms for employees, mobile and internet offers, Next Bike, fleet discounts, and other benefits.

All our benefits at a glance

Your employer

Working for the Canton of Lucerne means shaping the future - that of the canton, its residents, and not least your own. More than 7,000 employees in 200 different professions contribute daily to the excellent quality of life in our canton.

The IT Department (DIIN) provides comprehensive IT services for the departments, courts, and schools of the Canton of Lucerne. In addition to advising on IT issues in the areas of architecture, security, infrastructure, projects, and applications and providing IT services, it operates the cantonal IT infrastructure in two modern data centres and is responsible for the construction and operation of the complex cantonal communication network.

The "a" in the job title stands for "all". The Canton of Lucerne stands for diversity and variety.