VP Product Ecosystem - Hardware, Software & IoT

SkyCell AG

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

SkyCell is seeking a senior product leader to own and shape its end-to-end product portfolio across hardware, software, and IoT-enabled solutions. Founded in Switzerland in 2012, SkyCell is transforming global pharmaceutical supply chains with advanced temperature-controlled containers, IoT connectivity, and digital solutions. The company operates at the intersection of hardware, software, data, and logistics, combining Swiss engineering with a digital platform to shape the future of connected pharma supply chains. This role will be central to shaping the future of SkyCell's connected product ecosystem, ensuring a cohesive product vision across physical products, digital platforms, connectivity, and data-driven services. The VP Product Ecosystem will partner closely with the Co-Founder & CTO to define the long-term direction of SkyCell's product ecosystem and the future of connected pharmaceutical supply chains. This role will focus on scaling software and IoT product capabilities, while the Co-Founder & CTO will focus on the hardware container ecosystem. Together, they will define the overarching product strategy and future direction of the full product portfolio, ensuring strong alignment across hardware, software, connectivity, and customer experience. Success requires strong collaboration, thoughtful prioritization, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared product vision.

Requirements

• 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: Hardware, IoT & connected devices, Software platforms & cloud environments, Data platforms or digital ecosystems.
• Experience owning end-to-end product portfolios, not just individual products, from initial product-market fit discovery through to scaling, maturity, and managing an established product in-market.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
• Able to engage deeply with engineering teams (coding not required).
• A collaborative leadership style combined with strong strategic thinking, data-driven approach and sound judgment.
• Passion for building strong teams, developing talent, and creating environments where diverse perspectives can thrive.
• Must be located in, or able to relocate (without sponsorship) to one of the specified locations (locations not specified in the provided text).

Nice To Haves

• Candidates from adjacent industries are encouraged to apply.
• Exceptional candidates who may not meet every listed qualification or follow a traditional career path are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Product Vision: Develop and communicate a compelling long-term product vision and narrative, align leadership and teams around clear priorities and outcomes, and 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, and 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 monetisation strategies, and 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, and 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, and 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, and ensure product teams remain deeply connected to customer needs.

Benefits

• Meaningful Impact: Opportunity to shape products that help ensure the safe delivery of life-saving medicines worldwide and influence the future of connected pharmaceutical supply chains.
• Leadership and Growth: Highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to shape product strategy, organizational development, and long-term business success in a flat organization. Close collaboration with experienced leaders, technical experts, and cross-functional teams. Opportunity to build, mentor, and develop high-performing teams.
• Flexible Ways of Working: Hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration with remote flexibility. 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, experiences, and leadership styles can thrive. Equal opportunities for growth, development, and career progression in a collaborative and supportive environment.
• Wellbeing and Sustainability: Workplace recognizes the importance of balancing professional ambition with personal wellbeing. Supportive environment encouraging sustainable performance and long-term career development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed