About the role
As a Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for widening the footprint of PDF Tools across the whole customer journey. You will drive the vision and strategy for the Core SDK team, build a roadmap, implement new integrations and features and deliver new products to our customers. You will also lead, together with the team's engineering manager, a cross-functional team of engineers, and designers.
Responsibilities & Duties
Drive vision and product strategy for PDF Tools Core SDK offering
Conduct thorough qualitative, quantitative, and market research to identify opportunities for new features & integrations
Drive the definition of the Objectives & Key Results of your team
Translate product strategy into roadmaps, epics, and user stories
Perform the role of the product owner in your team
Collaborate with other PMs and teams within the document enablement domain
Work within the broader Product Management guild to build and optimize PDF Tools & Smallpdf's overall product strategy, implement and scale product development best practices
Requirements
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and a minimum of two years working as an engineer
3+ years of hands-on product management experience, preferably in working on products for developers (SDK or similar)
Experience building tools, infrastructure, or framework for developers
Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements from many sources and build a compelling product vision
Ability to manage stakeholders across multiple teams and drive parties with conflicting priorities to a decision
Experience in leading product delivery from inception to launch and maintenance
Excellent communicator with both teammates and stakeholders outside the team
Fluent in English, German is a plus.
Why you’ll love working at Pdftools
Pdftools is a place where people genuinely care about doing things well. We believe in precision, empathy, collaboration and continuous improvement - and we live those values every day.
You’ll be supported by deep technical expertise, surrounded by kind people and given the space to build something meaningful. With a strong, trusted product behind you and a team committed to solving real problems together, your work will matter far beyond your scope.
Because our technology touches essential workflows around the world, your impact will reach people and organizations who rely on us when trust and integrity matter most.
If you want to help shape the way the world shares information with trust and integrity - we’d love to meet you.
Our benefits
🌍 Influence the way over 1,000’s world leading organizations handle PDF workflows every day.
🚀 Push boundaries and dare to fail - that’s how we learn!
💻 Enjoy the flexibility a remote work environment with the option to meet in one of our offices occasionally to work together and strengthen the team bond.
🏝️ 30 vacation days - yep, you read that right - that you can take whenever you need them.
🧳 Need a long break? We offer sabbatical leave to employees who’ve been with us for over 2 years.
👶 16 weeks parental leave - 100% of your salary- for all new parents
🥧 Possibility of a Phantom stock option plan - PSOP (Conditions apply).
📚 A well-being budget of up to 2,000 CHF every year that can be used for training and development (plus days off for courses or training) and for physical and mental well-being purposes.
🤓 Internal knowledge sharing & external coaching to further develop your professional and social skills.
👩💻 Hack days to challenge you and your team, plus build amazing things.