Product Manager Application Platform (m/w/d)

What you can achieve.

• As Product Manager (m/w/d) Application Platform, you are responsible for platforms that form the digital foundation of SBB and thus the basis for rail operations in Switzerland.
• You shape a demanding and very broad field of activity in an IT that must be designed for maximum availability, standardization, and scaling, where your decisions are directly felt.
• You work closely with ARTs such as Identity & Access Management, Development Experience, and Cloud Foundation to jointly establish even better, scaled, and economical platforms and practices.
• You ensure that technology does not remain an end in itself, but reliably brings people from A to B every day.
• You also actively participate in the ART leadership in the further development of the ART and initiate as well as drive cross-ART initiatives.
• In close exchange with Product Owners, development, operations, and SaaS providers, you balance requirements and ensure viable decisions in interaction with Security, Architecture, and Business IT.

What you bring with you.

• Strong leadership skills to proactively drive topics, develop teams and employees, promote self-responsibility, and act effectively in the shared leadership model.
• An engaging manner, curiosity for technology trends, entrepreneurial thinking, and the tenacity to get topics off the ground across many stakeholders.
• Confident stakeholder management and target-group-oriented communication in a complex field of tension between operations, development, business IT, security, and architecture. Strong storytelling skills and executive presence to communicate complex platform topics understandably.
• Sound understanding of infrastructure and platform technologies to work at eye level with architects and developers and to support technology decisions.
• Several years of experience in product management of platform services in a scaled, agile environment with many users.
• Validation-driven way of working with the courage to specifically try new things, evaluate them with users, and scale them if necessary.