Product Manager Swissinfo

Your missionAs part of the SWI swissinfo.ch team, your tasks will be the following:

• Being in charge for business discovery for the Swissinfo platforms, including user needs, derivation of hypotheses and areas for improvement
• Ensuring alignment with the Swissinfo strategy and Product Board
• Using audience insights and KPI data to make informed decisions
• Formulating valid business requirements in collaboration with the Tech PO as a basis for the specification
• Preparing decision basis for the Product Board and representing the platform perspective in strategic prioritisation
• Being responsible for the platform roadmap, prioritising initiatives according to value, impact, risk and feasibility
• Facilitating coordination between PO formats, marketing/growth, distribution and IT for all platform-relevant issues
• Ensuring transparency regarding status, decisions and dependencies.
• Documenting decisions transparently and consistently
• Attending review phase from a business perspective, ensuring correct implementation of business requirements and clearing platform development for deployment
• Managing independently smaller projects and ensuring project office for larger projects

Your profile

• Established competence in business discovery (JTBD, hypothesis generation, user analysis) to derive strategically relevant requirements for platform development (Webseite, App)
• High level of understanding of technical development of media products and platforms
• Ability to merge platform logic with content, UX, tech and growth requirements
• Ability to formulate business requirements in a way that enables technical PO and IT to work efficiently
• Strong communication, facilitation and alignment skills
• Structured documentation and decision preparation
• Leadership skills in cross-functional teams
• Substantial experience in project management
• Proactive, structured, reliable
• Strong communication skills and confident in dealing with different stakeholders
• Team-oriented, at the same time able to drive tasks forward independently
• Knowledge of trends in platform development in the media industry

What we have to offer

• A varied field of activity in the dynamic environment of an international, multilingual SRG online medium
• A lively and dynamic team and a multicultural environment where it is fun to use your own skills and initiative
• Room for ambitions and creative ideas and possibility to play an active part
• Opportunities for personal and professional development
• Flexible working hours, working in the office with the option of working from home

About the application process
Frau Maryline Descourvières-Cerf
Leiterin Personal HR/FI/GD

Swissinfo provides an international audience with in‑depth analyses and background information on Switzerland's role in the world, offers a wide range of perspectives from a Swiss point of view, strengthens political participation, and keeps Swiss citizens living abroad connected to their home country.