Director of Product

About

As Director of Product, you are strategically, economically, and organizationally 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.

You will develop a clear vision for the Value Stream together with your Product Managers, 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 product management craft, develop your employees, and contribute to the cross-departmental further development of the IGS product organization.

Marco Rüegger Head of Product & Process Management

What you will achieve

Product Portfolio & Strategy

• Strategic overall responsibility for a coherent product portfolio within a Value Stream
• Consolidation of individual product strategies into a consistent vision with aligned roadmaps, clear priorities, and transparent dependencies
• Ensuring sustainable further development of the portfolio, considering customer needs, legal requirements, technological renewal, standardization, operational stability, and economic efficiency
• Active management of cross-product conflicts between regulatory requirements, customer demands, technical feasibility, and available resources

Investment & Economic Control

• Evaluation and prioritization of larger initiatives, epics, and investment needs in the context of the entire product portfolio
• Overall economic control of the Value Stream, including budget planning, forecasting, cost development, and product performance
• Ensuring consistent budget, roadmap, and investment logic across multiple products
• Transparent presentation of costs, benefits, risks, and alternatives as a basis for portfolio and investment decisions

Leadership & Development

• Personnel management, 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
• Fostering a professional product culture and further developing methods, standards, and working practices within the Value Stream
• Support in recruiting, performance appraisal, and development of key product-related roles

Stakeholders, Governance & Collaboration

• Cross-functional management of relevant customer, community, supplier, and stakeholder relationships at the Value Stream level
• Structured involvement of business owners, expert 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 bodies
• Transparent communication regarding roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, and conflicts of objectives

Why you will succeed

• Completed higher education (HF/FH/Uni) 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 the strategic management of product portfolios and 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 multi-layered organizational and decision-making structures
• Analytical, structured way of working and the ability to penetrate complex issues and prepare them for decision-making
• Confident leadership and communication skills, as well as a strong customer, quality, and solution orientation
• Very good German language skills, other national languages are an advantage

We offer

• A strategically formative leadership role with significant scope for design and impact
• The opportunity to actively shape the further development of a socially relevant product portfolio and the IGS product organization
• Collaboration with dedicated colleagues and experts from the Swiss and Liechtenstein social security landscape
• Flexible working time models, home office and workation possibilities, and modern offices in a central location near the main train station
• Free smartphone with subscription, Halbtax travelcard, attractive further training opportunities
• At least 25 days of vacation and a collegial, future-oriented working environment

Application Process

• 01 Submit your documents Do your skills match our requirements? Then send us your complete dossier via the application form or by email.
• 02 We will contact you We will review your documents, and we or our external HR service provider will contact you for an initial exchange.
• 03 Deepen our acquaintance Through two meetings at IGS, we will see if we are a good fit. And if you wish, you can also complete a trial day with us.
• 04 The decision is made Afterwards, you and our respective recruitment team will individually decide whether we want to go down a common path and conclude a contract. This is the real starting signal!

Questions & Answers

What documents should I submit?

Ideally, we would like your complete CV, all work references, and certificates for education and further training, as well as diplomas. Please write two to three sentences about why you are interested in this job.

In what format can I send you my application?

We welcome 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.

How long will it take for you to respond for the first time?

Within three working days, you will receive an acknowledgment of receipt. Depending on the status of the recruitment process and any (holiday) absences, it may take two weeks thereafter to receive a response regarding further steps.

Can I apply speculatively?

Speculative applications are welcome. We will gladly check if you fit our profiles and if we have a corresponding vacancy in the near future. However, depending on the profile, it may take some time until we can provide a conclusive answer. We therefore ask for your patience.

I am studying or have just completed my studies. Should I apply to IGS?

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

Information for Recruitment Agencies

We are currently working with selected recruitment agencies with corresponding contractual agreements. We therefore ask that you do not submit any dossiers without prior consultation. Thank you for your understanding.