Digital Product Owner
Göteborg, SE, 417 55
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future
At Digital & IT, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. Digitalization and Digital capabilities is the backbone for enabling the evolution of Volvo Group hard products acting as an intelligent connected entity. Leading towards transition and emerging business models for Volvo Group.
With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With Group IT, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. We have a very important role to play in reaching the Volvo Group ambitions for 2030. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the Group? The time is now.
This will be us - your new colleagues
Our Department, Vehicle Software-R&D within Digital and IT has the accountability to provide Digital Capabilities to create embedded SW that supports services & Diagnostics. We provide & facilitate a secure pathway for qualified SW Deployment.
We are now recruiting a Digital Product Owner for our amazing highly skilled SW Documentation and release team (Main applications SEWS, Bucket, Tea Core).
Software Documentation & Release is developing Line of Business Applications supporting Embedded Software documentation configuration and release. Our stakeholders are Software engineers developing software used in all products as trucks, engines, busses, construction equipment. We have started to migrate our applications to cloud as Microservices and Single Page Application and will continue our path towards this.
You will be responsible for leading the development and execution of our product roadmap. You will work closely with stakeholders Customers at Volvo Trucks, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta, Volvo Buses and so on to ensure that our products are meeting customer needs and delivering business value.
Responsibilities:
· Create and manage the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with company strategy and goals
· Conduct market research and gather customer feedback to inform product decisions
· Aligning the product Roadmap to Business needs and Digital & ITs architectural runway.
· Backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by the team and business
· Ownership for security and Quality within the product
· Business and stakeholder discussions
· Responsible for fulfilling the product SLAs towards the business stakeholders
· Manage budget and financial follow up for the owned digital products
· Collaborate the dependency to other POs/Product teams or business teams
· Handshake and tight collaboration with DPM (Digital Product Manager)
· Define and prioritize product requirements and create user stories with the team.
· Work with the team in backlog refinements to present the need from stakeholders
· Hook arm with the line manager of the team to create the prerequisites for the team to succeed.
Qualifications:
· Proven experience as a previous Product Owner preferably from Digital in Automotive sector
· Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies, including Agile and Scrum
· Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills
· Experience working with cross-functional teams
· Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
· Security knowledge
· Cloud/Azure knowledge
· Experience with JIRA or other project management tools is a plus
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field
You are passionate about product development and want to join a dynamic team that is making a difference for Volvo Groups different R&D teams, we encourage you to apply.
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Group Digital & IT is the hub for digital development within Volvo Group. Imagine yourself working with cutting-edge technologies in a global team, represented in more than 30 countries. We are dedicated to leading the way of tomorrow’s transport solutions, guided by a strong customer mindset and high level of curiosity, both as individuals and as a team. Here, you will thrive in your career in an environment where your voice is heard and your ideas matter.