Head of Digital Product & Projects (80-100%)

SOMEDIA - MEDIEN DER SÜDOSTSCHWEIZ ---------------------------------- Somedia is one of the top five Swiss media companies. We include over 20 leading media brands, digital platforms, innovative marketing and communication agencies, e-learning service providers and emerging startups. We are a family business with flat hierarchies and a lived 'Du-Kultur' (informal culture). Our values are brave, ambitious, respectful and responsible. We act clearly, simply and confidently. Over the last three years, we have consistently invested in our digitalization, tackled many topics and created a solid basis for the next step. Now, we are looking, effective immediately or by arrangement, for a personality who will continue and shape this development. YOUR ROLE ----------- As Head of Digital Product \& Projects, you take responsibility for our core digital products and their commercialization. You lead a powerful team of currently four employees, consisting of one Product Manager, one UI/UX specialist, and a two-person marketing team for digital products. You are not just a manager, but also work actively: The creation and prioritization of the product roadmap is your core business, and you understand how good products are not only built but also successfully marketed. Your tasks • Product Roadmap: You create, maintain and prioritize the roadmap for website, app, e-paper and newsletter, in close coordination with the Head of Engineering • Team Leadership: You lead and develop your team, create clarity regarding priorities and protect the focus on what is essential • Stakeholder Management: You are the central interface between editorial, publishing and engineering, moderate requirements, communicate clearly and bring different interests to a common denominator • Digital Marketing: You share responsibility for ensuring that our products reach the right target groups, from reach strategy to subscription conversion • Operational Cooperation: You pitch in yourself where it counts. This role is leading and making things happen at the same time WHAT YOU BRING ------------------ • Sound experience in digital product management: You have been responsible for roadmaps, prioritized backlogs and know how to make smart decisions with limited resources • Experienced stakeholder management: You are strong in communication, can listen and know how to move things even without formal authority • A sense for digital marketing: You understand the connection between product, reach and monetization • Leadership experience, also in smaller, autonomous teams • Industry experience in the media environment is a plus, but not a must: Your digital product competence is decisive WHAT WE OFFER -------------- • Scope for design with real impact: Your roadmap decisions have a direct effect on user experience, reach and monetization of our digital products. No long way from idea to implementation • Short decision-making paths: You work closely with the Head of Digital Transformation, in an environment that not only tolerates but rewards a hands-on mentality • Flexible working: We rely on mobile working and home office, with at least three days of presence on-site in Chur. This way you stay close to the team and the stakeholders without having to sacrifice flexibility • A team with development potential: You take over a well-coordinated team and have the opportunity to actively develop it further • Regional relevance, digital ambitions: We are not a startup, but we think like one where it counts. The foundations have been laid, the investments have been made. Now it is about reaching the next level, and for that we are looking for you