Vice President Product Ecosystem, SkyCell AG
Hardware, Software & IoT
Cold storage for transporting temperature-sensitive goods
Be an early applicant
Cold storage for transporting temperature-sensitive goods
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide safe, secure and sustainable pharmaceutical supply chains for temperature-sensitive, life-saving medicines.
Role
Who you are
- We recognise that exceptional candidates may not meet every listed qualification or follow a traditional career path and encourage them to apply, even if they do not meet every qualification. We are also open to considering candidates from adjacent industries
- 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. Not expected to code, but able to engage deeply with engineering teams
- 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
What the job involves
- As we continue to scale, we are looking for an exceptional product leader to help shape the next chapter of our product journey
- We are looking for a senior product leader to own and shape SkyCell's end-to-end product portfolio across hardware, software, and IoT-enabled solutions
- This role will play a central part in shaping the future of SkyCell's connected product ecosystem, ensuring a cohesive product vision across physical products, digital platforms, connectivity, and data-driven services
- You will partner closely with our Co-Founder & CTO to shape the long-term direction of SkyCell's product ecosystem. Together, you will define the future of connected pharmaceutical supply chains
- This role will bring a deep expertise in scaling SkyCell's software and IoT product capabilities, while the Co-Founder & CTO will have a stronger 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 in this role will require strong collaboration, thoughtful prioritisation, and the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared product vision
- Shape the Product Vision:
- Develop and communicate a compelling long-term product vision and narrative
- Align leadership and teams around clear priorities and outcomes
- 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
- Drive prioritisation 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ensure product teams remain deeply connected to customer needs
Our take
Cold supply chains are vital for pharmaceutical shipments, but this highly specialised market is still served by just a few companies. SkyCell sets out to innovate the space with its smart airfreight container, the safest container solution for the distribution of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products.
Through its selective group of partners (including Cargolux, Emirates SkyCargo, United Cargo, and more), the company serves a global network of over 250 destinations. It boasts a market-leading failure rate of less than 0.1% and contributes nearly one billion data points to help the transformation of these ultra-important supply chains.
SkyCell's combination of total cost reduction and lower carbon emissions has seen it become one of the top five largest container providers for the pharmaceutical industry. It has secured substantial funding over the years, and invested in the expansion of its global footprint with a key focus on the US and Asia.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$59m
SERIES D
Oct 2023
$57m
SERIES D
Total funding: $212.8m
Company benefits
- Extra leave for new parents
- Part-time solutions
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work from home
Company HQ
Escher Wyss, Zürich, ZH
Leadership
Richard Ettl
(Co-Founder & CEO)Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum. Worked in Group Supply Production and Logistics at Bobst. Previously Head of Marketing at the Institute for Value-Based Enterprise.
Nico Ros
(Co-Founder, CTO & Chairman of the Board)Co-CEO, Co-Owner and Member of the Board at ZPF Ingenieure, as well as being a Member of the Board at Rematter.
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