Senior Product Leader (Hardware, Software, IoT)

About SkyCell:

SkyCell, founded in Switzerland in 2012, is revolutionizing global pharmaceutical supply chains with advanced temperature-controlled containers, IoT connectivity, and digital solutions. Our integrated product ecosystem empowers leading pharmaceutical companies to reduce risk, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure the safe delivery of life-saving medicines worldwide. We operate at the nexus of hardware, software, data, and logistics, combining Swiss engineering excellence with a growing digital platform.

About the Role:

This is a pivotal role in shaping the future of SkyCell’s connected product ecosystem, ensuring a unified product vision across physical products, digital platforms, connectivity, and data-driven services. You will partner closely with our Co-Founder & CTO to define the long-term direction of SkyCell’s product ecosystem, focusing on scaling our software and IoT product capabilities, while the CTO will lead the hardware container ecosystem. Together, you will define the overarching product strategy for the full portfolio, ensuring strong alignment across all facets of the product and customer experience. Success requires strong collaboration, thoughtful prioritization, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared product vision.

What You’ll Do:

Shape the Product Vision

• Develop and communicate a compelling long-term product vision and narrative.
• Align leadership and teams around clear priorities and outcomes.
• Simplify complexity into clear strategic direction.

Lead the Product Portfolio

• Define and lead a cohesive product strategy across hardware, software, and IoT-enabled solutions.
• Transform the product landscape into a clear, scalable portfolio and platform strategy.
• Drive prioritization across competing demands, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
• Manage strategic partnerships with external partners.

Translate Strategy into Business Impact

• Connect product decisions to commercial outcomes (revenue, adoption, retention, pricing models).
• Partner closely with commercial teams to define value propositions and monetization strategies.
• Strengthen product-market fit and accelerate customer adoption across segments.

Build at the Intersection of Hardware, Software & Data

• Ensure seamless integration between physical containers, IoT infrastructure, and digital platforms.
• Shape products that combine device, connectivity, and data intelligence into a unified customer and user experience.
• Leverage real-time data, analytics, and AI to create actionable, high-value insights for customers.

Lead and Develop the Product Organisation

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers and Product Owners.
• Create clarity in roles, decision-making, and ways of working.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.

Build Alignment Across the Organisation

• Act as a key partner to the CTO and engineering leadership.
• Bridge gaps between engineering, hardware, commercial, and operations teams.
• Ensure product teams remain deeply connected to customer needs.

What You’ll Bring:

• Significant experience in product management, including senior leadership roles.
• Experience in building, scaling, or transforming complex product ecosystems.
• Strong understanding and experience with products at the intersection of physical and digital technologies, including hardware, IoT & connected devices, software platforms & cloud environments, and data platforms or digital ecosystems.
• Experience owning end-to-end product portfolios, from discovery through scaling and maturity.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional stakeholder management skills; ability to engage deeply with engineering teams.
• A collaborative leadership style combined with strong strategic thinking, a data-driven approach, and sound judgment.
• Passion for building strong teams, developing talent, and creating inclusive environments.

(We recognize that exceptional candidates may not meet every listed qualification or follow a traditional career path and encourage them to apply. We are also open to considering candidates from adjacent industries.)

What’s In It For You?

• Meaningful Impact: Shape products that ensure the safe delivery of life-saving medicines and influence the future of connected pharmaceutical supply chains.
• Leadership and Growth: A highly visible leadership role with opportunities to shape product strategy and organizational development in a flat organization. Close collaboration with experienced leaders and teams. Opportunity to build, mentor, and develop high-performing teams.
• Flexible Ways of Working: A hybrid working model balancing in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. A culture focused on outcomes, trust, and accountability. Flexible working hours and arrangements.
• Inclusive Culture: Commitment to building diverse teams and an inclusive culture where different perspectives thrive. Equal opportunities for growth, development, and career progression.
• Wellbeing and Sustainability: A supportive environment that recognizes the importance of balancing professional ambition with personal wellbeing and encourages sustainable performance.

(We explicitly welcome neutral applications without profile picture or other indications of gender or race.)

Ready to Make an Impact?

Join SkyCell to build a future where pharmaceutical delivery is efficient, sustainable, and transformative.

Stay Connected with SkyCell:

Visit http://www.skycell.ch and explore #WeAreSkyCell on LinkedIn.

How to Apply:

Click ‘apply for this job’ below. Please note, we are unable to consider applications sent via email. For questions, contact talent@skycell.ch.

For this position, applications cannot be considered if you are not located in, or able to relocate (without sponsorship) to, one of the specified locations.