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We transform buildings
With technology for smart and sustainable buildings and infrastructure, we transform the everyday for everyone. By combining the real and digital worlds, we empower our customers to reach their decarbonization goals, lower their operating costs and achieve world-class experiences for people
Within Siemens Smart Infrastructure, you will be part of our Buildings Business Unit, which brings together the full portfolio of products, software and services for buildings and adjacent infrastructure
In our quest to revolutionize the world’s infrastructure, we are seeking an experienced Chief Product Owner, for our SI SW Organization, within our SI Buildings business unit
Our shared journey could take you anywhere…where would you like to go?
Location: This position will be in Zug, Switzerland
Role Introduction
The Building X platform is the technological foundation of our smart building ecosystem. It enables SaaS applications and digital services through robust IoT connectivity, device management, subscription management, and user and access control. In addition, it provides a unified building twin, ensuring all applications operate with consistent data regarding building structure, asset information, and building performance. As the heart of Building X, the platform enables seamless cross-application data sharing and workflows, empowering scalable, data-driven building solutions
As the Chief Product Owner for the Building X Platform, you will be part of the Building X platform product management team and collaborate closely with your colleagues to ensure Building X remains the industry-leading Building IoT platform. Your mission is to pull all the pieces together and ensure that platform users receive a complete, intuitive, and easy-to-use experience
Your primary responsibilities include:
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- Defining and maintaining the Building X platform roadmap in close alignment with users, buyers, and internal stakeholders
- Managing internal and external suppliers (e.g., AWS, FT FDS), ensuring coordinated delivery and alignment with platform strategy
- Defining and evolving overarching platform principles and workflows, such as billing, buying, and other key cross-cutting processes
- Owning the overall documentation, guidelines, usage limits, and fair usage policies for the platform
- Organizing and managing a user group for Building X platform users to gather insights and strengthen adoption
- Taking ownership of selected initiatives and driving them from inception through rollout, ensuring measurable impact
Shared responsibilities within the team:
- Defining how the platform evolves to meet customer expectations
- Ensuring ongoing compliance with internal regulations (e.g., Sfera) and external regulations such as the EU Data Act
Your talents and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field is required; a Master’s degree or equivalent technical/business experience is strongly preferred
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in platform product management, technical program management, or SaaS-related roles, ideally within a global organization or similar high-complexity industry
- Strong hands-on understanding of SaaS application architectures, IoT connectivity concepts, and AWS cloud services (e.g., IoT Core, device management, subscription/billing components)
- Proven ability to define and maintain product roadmaps, establish platform principles and workflows, and drive cross-platform consistency across billing, buying, and usage processes
- Demonstrated experience managing software programs end-to-end, including coordination with internal development teams and external suppliers (e.g., AWS, technical service providers)
- Strong capability to work across cross-functional teams, gather input from users, buyers, architects, and internal stakeholders, and align diverse interests into a coherent platform strategy
- Deep focus on customer value, ease of use, and adoption; experience organizing user groups, gathering feedback, and ensuring the platform meets evolving customer expectations
- Ability to balance long-term platform evolution with short-term deliverables, operate in fast-moving and flat organizational environments, and independently drive initiatives from ideation to successful rollout
- Fluency in English
Employee benefits
- 2–3 days per week of mobile working is standard
- Mobility allowance
- Varied further training opportunities
- Access to employee share programs
- Further information about employee benefits can be found here
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I look forward to receiving your application.
Olger
Talent Acquisition Partner
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