Product Manager (50 - 80%)

Company Description

Welcome to SMG!

Swiss Marketplace Group AG focuses on simplifying lives with innovative digital products, transforming industries, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Formed in 2021 through the merger of Scout24 Switzerland and TX Markets, SMG operates across real estate, automotive, general marketplaces, and finance & insurance sectors. 

Job Description

Join us in this exciting role as Product Manager for Automotive Shared Services. This is a part-time position with a workload ranging from 50% to 80%. With positive and energetic approach, you will oversee the planning and execution of key initiatives that maintain and evolve our platform's core capabilities, including infrastructure, security, user authentication and authorization, behaviour tracking, and fraud detection solutions. Your work will ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of the foundation that supports our entire marketplace, enabling seamless user experiences and driving business success.

About the Role

Our AutoScout24 and MotoScout24 brands are two of the leading Swiss marketplaces for listing and searching motor vehicles, reaching thousands of users daily. In this role, you will manage and enhance critical platform capabilities that form the backbone of our marketplace. From ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure to advancing our authentication and authorization systems, implementing secure and seamless user experiences, and refining our behaviour tracking and fraud detection solutions, your contributions will be pivotal.
You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to deliver projects that ensure platform stability, security, and innovation. This is a career-defining opportunity for someone passionate about the intersection of technology, security, and scalability, ready to make a meaningful impact on the foundational systems that power a thriving automotive marketplace.

Your primary responsibility is to lead a cross-functional agile team to deliver platform capabilities that are reliable, scalable, secure, and impactful.

Key responsibilities include:

• Shape the vision, strategy, OKR’s and KPIs for core platform services, including infrastructure, authentication and authorization, user behavior tracking, and fraud detection, aligning initiatives with business goals to support marketplace growth and resilience.
• Manage the project roadmap and lifecycle: Leverage technical insights, system metrics, and emerging industry trends to prioritize impactful initiatives and ensure the team focuses on high-value, high-impact outcomes.
• Act as a bridge between stakeholders, including engineering, security, business teams, and external partners, integrating diverse perspectives into platform development and ensuring alignment across teams.
• Collaborate with technical experts to identify and implement infrastructure upgrades, security patches, and scalable solutions for user authentication, tracking, and fraud prevention.
• Collaborate with Group Data Compliance & Group Security teams to ensure regulatory compliance, alignment and adherence to group level tooling, standards and initiatives.
• Evaluate the success of platform initiatives using both quantitative and qualitative metrics, conducting system health checks, stakeholder feedback sessions, and post-implementation reviews to ensure alignment with business needs and technical standards.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks, ensuring platform services remain secure, compliant, and reliable in a fast-evolving environment.
• Maintain high standards of platform quality, taking ownership of performance, security, and process efficiency across all delivered solutions.
• Support the team in iterative planning activities and ceremonies.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in a technical project management or engineering leadership role, with a proven record of delivering impactful infrastructure, security, or platform-based solutions, ideally in a SaaS, marketplace, or similar technical environment.
• Expertise in platform development, particularly in cloud-based infrastructure, authentication systems, and scalable APIs, ideally within a marketplace or high-traffic environment.
• Strong experience working with cross-functional teams (engineering, security, UX/UI designers, operations, and business stakeholders) and managing distributed teams.
• Proficiency in analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data to inform technical decisions, with experience in using performance metrics and system monitoring tools. Familiarity with A/B testing and data-driven decision-making is a plus.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions and the rationale behind them, with the confidence to make independent decisions while supporting team collaboration.
• Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships across teams, departments, and hierarchies, including with non-technical stakeholders.
• Ownership mentality: Eager to take accountability for delivering platform stability, security, and performance outcomes by collaborating with stakeholders.
• Understanding of legal, security, and regulatory considerations surrounding user data, privacy, and fraud prevention is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or related fields.
• Fluency in English is a mandatory requirement, German is a plus.
• Knowledge of agile frameworks such as Kanban/Scrum.

Additional Information

Benefits you’ll love 

• Be a part of well established Swiss-based subsidiary in Belgrade

• We value work-life balance and employee happiness. That’s why we grant you a hybrid work environment, and 25 vacation days per year, with the option to buy another 10 days in an unbureaucratic process. You also get 10 fully paid sick days per year

• Lots of team activities and perks and the most important, parking space

• Great equipment, competitive salary and a variety of fringe benefits like a gym membership and discounts at local stores

• International team and working environment of talented and fun people

• Stimulating work experience that will allow you to grow both professionally and personally (yearly budget for your personal development)

About Us

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG. is a pioneering network of online marketplaces and cutting-edge European digital company that simplifies people’s lives with innovative products.

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG. provides customers the best tools to meet their life decision needs. The portfolio includes Real Estate (ImmoScout24, Homegate, Flatfox, alle-immobilien.ch, Immostreet.ch, home.ch, Publimmo, Acheter-Louer.ch, CASASOFT, IAZI), Automotive (AutoScout24, MotoScout24), General Marketplaces (anibis.ch, tutti.ch, Ricardo) and Finance & Insurance (FinanceScout24, moneyland.ch).
The company was founded in November 2021 by TX Group AG, Ringier AG, La Mobilière and General Atlantic.

Disclaimer

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group AG primarily engages directly with candidates. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies unless we have specifically requested their assistance for particular roles. Any submissions made without a prior request from our Talent Acquisition team will not be acknowledged or considered. We appreciate the understanding and cooperation of recruitment agencies in respecting this policy.