Senior PKI, CA & Certificate Lifecycle Management Expert / Senior PKI, CA & Certificate Lifecycle Management Expertess

SwissSign AG - January 27, 2026

Join SwissSign: A Leading Swiss Trust Service Provider

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

At SwissSign, we empower firms to uphold the highest standards of data protection, privacy, and compliance, ensuring their operations are secure and within regulations. Our fully self-managed, geo-redundant infrastructure, located exclusively in Switzerland, guarantees unparalleled protection for sensitive customer data, offering unmatched peace of mind for our clients and their customers.

SwissSign is a wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss Post.

Your New Challenge

In this versatile and exciting position, you will provide comprehensive support to the Head of Certificate Services in addressing the operational challenges of an internationally oriented trust service provider. Leveraging 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 commercialization 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 and technology providers 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 the sales team for improved performance.
  • Develop proposals for faster market entry.
  • Drive growth within TSP.
  • Support marketing activities.
  • Build demonstrations & POCs.
  • Assist direct and indirect sales efforts.

What You Bring Along

  • A university degree in computer science or business informatics (Master’s or Bachelor’s).
  • Additional certifications and proof of continuous professional development in PKI, IT security, and/or product management.
  • 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).
  • Strong expertise in integrating protocols such as ACME, WCCE, EST, SCEP, Ansible, Azure KeyVault & Intune key escrow process.
  • Good understanding of modern infrastructure setups (Kubernetes & OpenShift).
  • Ability to translate complex technical topics into viable business models.
  • 5 years of experience collaborating with the CA/B forum.
  • Several years of experience driving compliance & CyberSec discussions & meetings.
  • Excellent English skills (C2); proficiency in German or additional languages is an advantage.

What Makes You Stand Out

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

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Location : Lausanne
Country : Switzerland

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