Product Manager, Core Tools & AI Search (Zurich)

Smallpdf; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

30 vacation days

Sabbatical leave after 2 years

16 weeks parental leave - 100% salary

Pet-friendly offices

Personal development budget up to CHF

Knowledge sharing and coaching

Hack days and team events

Job summary

Smallpdf in Zurich is seeking an experienced Product Manager for our core tools to make the single task—compress, convert, translate, merge—fast, seamless and best in class. You will own end-to-end tool performance and partner with SEO, growth and marketing to drive acquisition through AI search and paid channels.

You will work with a fully staffed product team in Zurich, shaping roadmaps based on user feedback, data and business goals, while coaching peers and aligning stakeholders to deliver

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product management.
• Hands-on A/B testing on a product 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.
• Run user research yourself and bring learnings to decisions.
• Commercially minded: know what a feature is worth before you build it.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own the individual tools end to end: upload experience, processing, output quality, download
• Work with SEO, SEM and growth teams on how people reach the tools, including positioning with marketing
• 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 daily work

Data-driven decision-making

Communication

English proficiency

Job description

Smallpdf in Zurich is seeking an experienced Product Manager for our core tools to make the single task—compress, convert, translate, merge—fast, seamless and best in class. You will own end-to-end tool performance and partner with SEO, growth and marketing to drive acquisition through AI search and paid channels.

You will work with a fully staffed product team in Zurich, shaping roadmaps based on user feedback, data and business goals, while coaching peers and aligning stakeholders to deliver