Leading Products Strategically. Shaping the Portfolio Effectively.

About the job

As Director of Product, you are strategically, economically and organisationally responsible for a coherent product portfolio. You lead the assigned Product Managers and ensure that product strategies, roadmaps, investments, customer needs, regulatory requirements, quality and lifecycle topics are consistently managed across multiple products.

Together with your Product Managers, you develop a clear vision for the value stream, create transparency about priorities and dependencies, and ensure that investments are evaluated and managed not in isolation but in the context of the entire product portfolio.

In a highly regulated environment, you balance stability, legal requirements, technological renewal and further development. At the same time, you strengthen the craft of product management, develop your employees and contribute to the cross-departmental further development of the IGS product organisation.

What you achieve

Product Portfolio & Strategy

Strategic overall responsibility for a coherent product portfolio within a value stream

Bringing together individual product strategies into a consistent vision with aligned roadmaps, clear priorities and transparent dependencies

Ensuring sustainable further development of the portfolio taking into account customer needs, legal requirements, technological renewal, standardisation, operational stability and economic efficiency

Active management of cross-product goal conflicts between regulatory requirements, customer demands, technical feasibility and available resources

Investment & Economic Control

Evaluation and prioritisation of major projects, epics and investment needs in the context of the entire product portfolio

Economic overall control of the value stream including budget planning, forecasting, cost development and product performance

Ensuring a consistent budget, roadmap and investment logic across multiple products

Transparent preparation of costs, benefits, risks and alternatives as a basis for portfolio and investment decisions

Leadership & Development

Personnel leadership, coaching and further development of the assigned Product Managers

Ensuring a clear and consistent understanding of roles in the interplay of product management, product ownership, business analysis, testing, architecture and operations

Promoting a professional product culture as well as further development of methods, standards and working practices in the value stream

Support in recruitment, assessment and development of product-related key roles

Stakeholders & Collaboration

Cross-cutting management of relevant customer, community, supplier and stakeholder relationships at the value stream level

Structured involvement of business owners, specialist committees and other relevant stakeholders in product and portfolio management

Close coordination with business unit management, other value stream leads, architecture, operations, suppliers and relevant governance committees

Transparent communication on roadmaps, priorities, dependencies and goal conflicts

Why you succeed

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

Several years of leadership experience in product management, ideally in complex, regulated or B2B-oriented environments

Proven experience in strategic management of product portfolios as well as in economic product and investment control

Sound knowledge of agile product development, ideally with experience in SAFe®

Very good understanding of the interplay between product strategy, architecture, operations, budget, governance and delivery in complex system landscapes

Experience in stakeholder management in complex organisational and decision-making structures

Analytical, structured working style and the ability to understand complex issues and prepare them for decision-making

Confident leadership and communication skills as well as pronounced customer, quality and solution orientation

Very good German skills, additional national languages are an advantage

We offer

Strategically influential leadership role with great scope for design and impact

Opportunity to actively shape the further development of a socially relevant product portfolio and the IGS product organisation

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 training opportunities

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

Application process

01Send us your documentsYour skills meet our requirements? Then send us your complete dossier via the application form or by e-mail.

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

Ideal for us are your complete CV, all work references and certificates of education and 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 e-mail 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.

You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt from us within three working days. Depending on the status of the recruitment process and any (holiday) absences, it may 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 CH flat rate

Private accident insurance

Contribution to childcare costs