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Senior Technical Product Manager (Core SDK team)

This is a Senior Technical Product Manager role focused on PDF document enablement, offered as a remote position. The PM will drive the vision and strategy for the Core SDK offering, owning the product surface for developer tools and integrations. This role requires deep technical product ownership, roadmap development, and leading product delivery from inception to launch.

Seniority

Senior

Product Area

developer tools

Work Style

Remote

Location

Worldwide

Type

Full_time

Role type

Skills

Required

  • Computer Science
  • Software Engineering
  • product management experience
  • products for developers
  • SDK
  • user requirements
  • product vision
  • English

Nice to have

  • German

Benefits

PTOParental LeaveLearning BudgetWellnessOffsite
Full job description
Location Type: Remote Location: Remote Employment Type: FullTime Department: Pdftools ABOUT US Pdftools is on a mission to empower people and businesses to share documents with trust and confidence, today and in the future! In over 70 countries, more than 650 customers trust our PDF technology to power their mission-critical business processes. As a pioneer in the PDF industry since 1994, we have been instrumental in shaping the PDF standard as it is known today. We enable our customers to do their business effectively with a wide range of software solutions and developer components that define the PDF solution they can trust. Built with precision and passion in Switzerland. We are proud to say that we have an inclusive, supportive, and fun culture, yet ambitious in helping you grow your career. Our team is made up of PDF technology veterans. We are an extremely customer-focused, fun, and hardworking team of members across product, engineering, marketing, sales, and more! We share a common set of values that we look for in every new hire: - We Get A Kick Out Of Solving Problems - We Before I - Always Learn, Always Improve - We Take Ownership - We Focus On What Matters Come join us on our mission to empower people and businesses to share documents with trust and confidence, today and in the future! ABOUT THE ROLE As a Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for widening the footprint of PDF Tools across the whole customer journey. You will drive the vision and strategy for the Core SDK team, build a roadmap, implement new integrations and features and deliver new products to our customers. You will also lead, together with the team's engineering manager, a cross-functional team of engineers, and designers. RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES - Drive vision and product strategy for PDF Tools Core SDK offering - Conduct thorough qualitative, quantitative, and market research to identify opportunities for new features & integrations - Drive the definition of the Objectives & Key Results of your team - Translate product strategy into roadmaps, epics, and user stories - Perform the role of the product owner in your team - Collaborate with other PMs and teams within the document enablement domain - Work within the broader Product Management guild to build and optimize PDF Tools & Smallpdf's overall product strategy, implement and scale product development best practices REQUIREMENTS - Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering and a minimum of two years working as an engineer - 3+ years of hands-on product management experience, preferably in working on products for developers (SDK or similar) - Experience building tools, infrastructure, or framework for developers - Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements from many sources and build a compelling product vision - Ability to manage stakeholders across multiple teams and drive parties with conflicting priorities to a decision - Experience in leading product delivery from inception to launch and maintenance - Excellent communicator with both teammates and stakeholders outside the team - Fluent in English, German is a plus. WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT PDFTOOLS Pdftools is a place where people genuinely care about doing things well. We believe in precision, empathy, collaboration and continuous improvement - and we live those values every day. You’ll be supported by deep technical expertise, surrounded by kind people and given the space to build something meaningful. With a strong, trusted product behind you and a team committed to solving real problems together, your work will matter far beyond your scope. Because our technology touches essential workflows around the world, your impact will reach people and organizations who rely on us when trust and integrity matter most. If you want to help shape the way the world shares information with trust and integrity - we’d love to meet you. OUR BENEFITS 🌍 Influence the way over 1,000’s world leading organizations handle PDF workflows every day. 🚀 Push boundaries and dare to fail - that’s how we learn! 💻 Enjoy the flexibility a remote work environment with the option to meet in one of our offices occasionally to work together and strengthen the team bond. 🏝️ 30 vacation days - yep, you read that right - that you can take whenever you need them. 🧳 Need a long break? We offer sabbatical leave to employees who’ve been with us for over 2 years. 👶 16 weeks parental leave - 100% of your salary- for all new parents 📚 A well-being budget of up to 2,000 CHF every year that can be used for training and development (plus days off for courses or training) and for physical and mental well-being purposes. 🤓 Internal knowledge sharing & external coaching to further develop your professional and social skills. 👩‍💻 Hack days to challenge you and your team, plus build amazing things. HOW TO APPLY Please apply using the form below and upload your CV - in English, as it’s the standard working language at Pdftools. A PDF format is preferred. COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY At Pdftools, we believe compensation should be fair, transparent and thoughtfully aligned with the value each person brings to our team. Our approach balances several key factors - current market trends, role expectations, seniority, experience, and geographic location - to ensure every offer is both competitive and equitable. We review our salary ranges regularly to stay in step with the evolving market, and we make decisions based on skills, impact, and responsibility rather than negotiation strength. Our goal is simple: to recognize and reward great work, support long-term growth and create a compensation structure that feels fair, consistent and grounded in integrity. We want everyone at Pdftools to feel valued, supported and empowered to do their best work - and our compensation philosophy is designed to reflect exactly that. HIRING POLICY Pdftools is an equal-opportunity employer, and we believe our strength comes from a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, identities, perspectives, and lived experiences. We welcome applicants of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, orientations, and life paths. You’ll also have the option to share your pronouns and answer an anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply. This information is completely voluntary, but it helps us stay accountable in building an inclusive and equitable hiring process. We use AI thoughtfully in our day-to-day work, but we value human curiosity, creativity, and integrity above all. We’re excited to meet candidates who bring genuine expertise, real stories, and authentic experience to the table.

About Smallpdf

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Smallpdf is a Swiss-made PDF productivity suite — 30+ web, desktop, and mobile tools for compressing, converting, merging, editing, and e-signing PDFs, plus newer AI features like Chat with PDF, summarization, translation, and an AI question generator. Founded in Zurich in 2013, it serves over a billion users in 195 countries and 24 languages, and is one of the most-visited websites in Switzerland. The team is 30+ nationalities across Zurich, Barcelona, and Belgrade; in 2022 Smallpdf acquired Swiss document-processing company PDF Tools for $30M. Smallpdf appears to be bootstrapped/profitable with no disclosed venture rounds. Perks include 30 vacation days, flexible hours, parental leave at full salary, and a personal-development budget.

Productivity & CollaborationConsumer & MarketplaceFlexible hoursGenerous PTOParental leaveLearning stipend

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