Head of Product

**Your contribution**:
As Head of Product, reporting directly to the Founder and CEO of the company, you will:

- Supervise and oversee the strategy, planning and management of the entire software development and architecture.
- Build and lead the internal development team.
- Lead the relationship with external development team.
- Create technical design and ensure that the implementation follows the specifications.
- Drive and own all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Manage the releases of software components, including leading product deployments.
- Interact with internal and external stakeholders in identifying and analyzing requirements for development purposes.
- Create and present visionary innovations in terms of alternative technologies and architectures, make strategic product decision proposals in close cooperation with all company departments.
- Establish collaborative relationships with the Growth, Customer Experience, Operations teams to guarantee a seamless and consistent experience for our clients with our brand and offering.
- Contribute to increase company efficiency and profitability.

**You bring**:

- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in building and leading development teams, designing software and architecture.
- Experienced in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, Docker and Linux. Knowledge of Identity Management and SSO (SAML, OpenID) would be an advantage.
- Proven track record of successfully leading and motivating high-performing development teams.
- Strong analytical, strategic and coordinating skills.
- Specific product management certificates.
- Experience with test-driven development and reviewing code / pull requests.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues, working closely with the business to understand and solve problems.

**You are**:

- Willing to personally contribute to development, taking and completing features and stories, in addition to and in balance with strategic responsibilities.
- An empathic and efficient leader.
- A change agent.
- A team player who enjoys collaboration.
- Trustful with highest level of ethics and integrity.
- Digitally-savvy.
- Proficient in English.
- Eligible to live and work in Switzerland.

**What we offer**:
Our workplace enhances flexibility, resourcefulness, and inclusiveness and offers:

- A hybrid work model.
- Unique opportunities to deepen your professional expertise, learn from the best professionals in our industry and experiment with new things every day.
- Competitive compensation as well as the possibility to become an integral part of the company’s financial success through the employee stock-option plan.
- Specific benefits targeted to support employee’s well-being.
- A work culture characterized by mutual trust and collaboration.
- A flat organizational structure with short communication channels across levels of responsibility and across teams.

**About us**:
Are you looking for a career in a mission-driven tech company?

Do you want to help accelerate workplace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and have an impact on workplaces around the world?

Click here and join EDGE Strategy You will be a key contributor and will play a vital role in our company’s journey to make Real. World. Change.

EDGE Strategy is a high-growth, global and mission-driven Swiss-based tech company. Our product, EDGE Empower®, is an integrated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) software that combines the power of the latest tech, diversity, equity and inclusion expert knowledge and experience, as well as independently verified certification into one solution.

Our customer base consists of large organizations in 56 different countries across five continents and 24 different industries. It includes names such as IKEA, L’Oréal, UNICEF, Nestlé, ENGIE, Deloitte, the World Bank among many others.