Chief Product Officer (CPO) with humor

We are now looking for a CPO, which is one of the most important positions at Benify. The CPO will be responsible for the business framework regarding our product development and will hold a key position when it comes to the company’s strategic management.


At Benify we work hard but at the same time having lots of fun. That's because we only employ people who we really like! If you’re square, don’t bother to apply! :) 

ABOUT THE POSITION

Our product development has been mainly customer-driven and thanks to our demanding customers we’ve been able to increase the complexity of the products with successful results. Your mission is to lead the product development in the right direction in order to execute the company’s strategy but also to create new future opportunities that we haven’t yet discovered. You will report directly to our CEO and a seat in the executive management team can be the next step for the right person.

As the CPO of Benify, you will construct the role from scratch. The product ownership is today decentralized in different departments, primarily between sales, project management and IT, with different degrees of involvement from management level. Your task will be to form a plan for how the ownership shall be organized and controlled and then put this plan into action.

Examples of work tasks include:

• Create a product development plan for each product and country, both in a medium long and a longer perspective, taking into account the company’s strategy and expected market development.
• Coordinate how to prioritize employee’s suggestions on how to develop the products and communicate internally and externally how and why the products develop in the direction they do.
• Analyze current customer needs and future market development with the purpose to create selling products with high long-term customer value.
• Lead the daily work of product development, both cross-functionally in the company and in your own team that you eventually will be able to build (with the focus on overall product ownership in the Swedish and foreign markets)
• Develop marketing plan for new product area together with sales director and marketing manager


 
WHO ARE YOU?

The CPO will hold an important and senior key position at Benify. We’re looking for you who have successfully managed to build and lead a similar position at a dynamic and fast growing company or have had other similar experience of IT-based product development. Technical competence within the IT area and web-based systems is very important but it’s equally important to have aptitude for market analysis and sales. As you understand designing good looking and user-friendly products is key for our success. Our goal is long-term growth with more than 30 % per year and all product development shall be made with this goal in mind.

You shall also:

• Have a university degree
• Have worked with IT and lead product development on a tactical, operative and strategic level for a long time.
• Be fluent in English, both written and oral. Fluency in Swedish is an advantage but not a requirement.
• Be an outgoing, analytical person with good self-esteem balanced with humbleness.
• Have good interpersonal skills and be successful at “getting people onboard” but you also have the ability to stand up for your opinions in discussions.
• Be pragmatic and not afraid to roll up your sleeves when needed.
• Have an eye for what is good looking design and what is user friendly


At Benify we encourage different opinions and initiatives, we respect each other and we have fun together. However, it’s important to realize that the position as CPO includes tough discussions with co-workers in various functions that are used to make their own product related decisions themselves. Therefore, a strong CPO is required in order to succeed with this difficult but exciting and fun challenge. Last but not least, we want you to be a nice co-worker. This is an absolute requirement for all of our positions at Benify because we only hire people who we really like!

PS. Why do you need humor? Because life is to short for working with boring people. They can work at another company. 
 
PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Start: Asap, but we prefer "Ms/Mr Right" to "Ms/Mr Right Now"

Extent: Full time

Location: Östermalm, Stockholm with frequent business trips to our foreign offices

Contact person: Caroline Lerjerud, HR Generalist
 
APPLICATION

Sounds interesting? Please click on "Apply" below to easily submit your application. We review applications continuously and might fill the position before application deadline. 

 
ABOUT BENIFY

Benify was founded in 2004 in Sweden. A majority of Sweden’s largest companies are customers of ours, such as IKEA, Ericsson, Volvo, Nordea and AstraZeneca. We provide them with a highly tailored web solution that streamlines communication and interaction with their employees. Our portal provides a smarter way for over half a million employees to visualize their “total compensation” – salary and benefits and in the service we offer flexible benefits such as wellness, health, pensions, insurance and company cars.

Benify currently employs around 250 outstanding employees in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich, Helsinki, Oslo & London and will soon grow in several other countries. We work in a young environment with happy and ambitious employees. The house is filled with intelligent and driven people who spread positive energy. We work hard but at the same time have lots of fun. That's because we only employ people who we really like!

You might have heard about Flexpay? That was our Swedish company name until late 2014. In all countries outside Sweden we called ourselves Benify. To make everything easier, we renamed Flexpay to Benify here as well, but everything else is just as usual! :)