Senior PKI, CA & Certificate Lifecycle Management Expert ( CDI 80-100%)

SwissSign is a recognised Swiss Trust Service Provider (TSP) and a leading expert in trust services. We provide robust public key infrastructure that enables secure digital certificates, signatures and identity verification, ensuring trusted and legally compliant digital interactions.

SwissSign enables firms to uphold the highest standards of data protection, privacy, and compliance while empowering digital sovereignty and ensuring that their business operates securely and within regulations. Our fully self-managed, geo-redundant infrastructure, – located exclusively in Switzerland – guarantees that sensitive customer data is handled with unparalleled protection, offering our clients and their customers unmatched peace of mind.

SwissSign is a wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss Post.

Your new challenge

In this versatile and exciting position, you will provide comprehensive and competent support to the Head of Certificate Services in tackling the operational challenges of an internationally oriented trust service provider. With your expertise in Public Certificate Authority Services (TSP), strong customer orientation and technical proficiency, you will play a key role in further developing and positioning our certificate services in the market.

An overview of your tasks

• Manage Certificate Authority and Lifecycle Management roadmaps, tracking customer needs and market trends.
• Drive the commercializing of new PKI certificate types (e.g., BIMI, VMC) through active participation in international standards bodies
• Translate standards into commercial opportunities by collaborating with partners, technology providers, and relying on parties to launch and scale new product categories in the market
• Provide recommendations to redefine and optimize business models to mitigate risks from industry-wide PKI distrust events, ensuring continuity and trust for customers
• Monitor competitors and pricing to stay informed
• Collaborate with sales to support key clients
• Train sales team for improved performance
• Develop proposals for faster market entry
• Drive growth within TSP
• Support marketing activities
• Build demonstration & POC
• Assist direct and indirect sales efforts

What you bring along

• University degree in computer science or business informatics or a related field (Master’s or Bachelor’s)
• Additional certifications and proof of continuous professional development in PKI, IT security and/or product management are required
• At least 10 years in a comparable position at an international trusted certificate or trust service provider (TSP) with a focus on Public Certificate Authority Services
• Deep knowledge of PKI technologies, certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and international certification standards (e.g. BIMI, VMC, eIDAS, CA/B regulations);
• Stronge expertise of integration of the following protocols ACME, WCCE, EST, SCEP, Ansible, Azure KeyVault & Intune key escrow process
• Good understanding of the modern infrastructure setup (Kubernetes & OpenShift)
• Ability to translate complex technical topics into viable business models
• 5 years of experiences of collaboration with the CA/B forum
• Few years of experiences by driving compliance & CyberSec discussions & meetings
• Excellent English skills (C2); German or additional languages an advantage;

What makes you stand out

Alongside your specialist expertise, your trustworthiness, assertiveness, initiative and communication skills enable you to work successfully across departments. You are solution-oriented, structured and pragmatic in your approach.