Product Manager - AI-Driven Core Tools (Hybrid, Zurich)

Smallpdf; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

30 vacation days

Sabbatical after 2 years

Parental leave 16 weeks

Pet-friendly offices

Development budget CHF 2,000/year

Coaching options

Job summary

Smallpdf in Zurich is hiring a Product Manager for our core tools. You will own the end-to-end delivery of the AI-powered features that enable millions of users to compress, convert, and search our tools.

You’ll work with a cross-functional team including engineering, design, SEO, growth and marketing in a hybrid Zurich setup. Ideal candidates have 6+ years in product management, hands-on AB testing, and a practical approach to AI — from workflows to prototyping and research.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product management.
• Hands-on A/B testing with real traffic.
• AI in daily work: workflows, analysis, prototyping, research.
• Experience defining need & quality for an AI feature.
• Comfortable talking with engineers about trade-offs, speed, errors and estimations.
• Dynamic and hands-on: quick decisions based on real data.
• Ambiguity: you find the problem worth solving when nobody has named it yet.
• Curious and rigorous: you dig into the data yourself until the answer holds.
• You run user research yourself, and bring what you learn into decisions.
• Commercially minded: you know what a feature is worth before you build it.
• A clear communicator who aligns people without needing authority, with excellent written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Own the individual tools end to end: upload experience, processing, output quality, download
• Work with our SEO, SEM and growth teams on how people reach the tools, including positioning with marketing so people remember us by name
• Help turn AI search and LLMs into a real acquisition channel, from first users to a tracked source of traffic
• Ship AI features where they help users, with a clear process for accuracy, cost and quality before launch
• Design, monitor and analyse experiments on millions of sessions, and ship, iterate or kill on the result
• Run deep analyses and user research yourself, and be the voice of the user in every decision
• Set the strategy and roadmap for your area from user feedback, data and business goals, with a commercial case, cost and outcome metrics for every bet
• Align engineering, design, SEO, growth, marketing and other product teams on what ships and why
• Lead without authority: manage up with clear recommendations, settle ownership with peer teams, and present plans and results to leadership and the whole company
• Raise the bar around you: help your team own product decisions, give and take honest feedback, coach others, and step outside the PM role when it moves the needle

Skills

Product management

A/B testing

AI in product

User research

Data-driven decisions

English communication

Job description

Smallpdf in Zurich is hiring a Product Manager for our core tools. You will own the end-to-end delivery of the AI-powered features that enable millions of users to compress, convert, and search our tools.

You’ll work with a cross-functional team including engineering, design, SEO, growth and marketing in a hybrid Zurich setup. Ideal candidates have 6+ years in product management, hands-on AB testing, and a practical approach to AI — from workflows to prototyping and research.