Digital Product Owner
Tianjin, CN, 300308
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.
What you will do
Digital Delivery is a function within Group Digital & IT. We have the ambition to identify and execute on new digital initiatives in tight collaboration with business areas across the Volvo Group, modernize and transform existing solutions and products, and to secure agile ways of working across the Volvo Group, modernize and transform existing solutions and products, and to secure agile ways of working across the Digital Delivery function.
We are a team of approximately 3 000 people, present in Sweden, India, Poland, China, Brazil, France and USA.
Your future team
Within DE24000 - DDA Digital Experience & Service Sales, you'll join a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, where continuous learning and embracing change are the norms. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts, and opinions are shared freely, and together, we create the future.
Your new challenge
As a Digital Product Owner (DPO), you will collaborate with digital product managers, engineers, UX designers, data analysts, and stakeholders to continuously enhance our products and user experience. You will take ownership of the digital product, champion the vision, and translate the roadmap into deliverables aligned with the overall strategy. You will manage the team backlogs, prioritize tasks, and drive execution within a stable, high-performing team.
In this position, you will lead the development team for Repair and Maintenance Information (RMI) to independent operators. Securing that Volvo complies with the latest legislation as defined in European Union legislation for Volvo Trucks and Volvo Buses. You will also be accountable for a portfolio of marketing and communication applications used on portals and Volvo.com sites. These applications play a vital role in supporting our visitors in their user journeys and driving potential new customer leads. You’ll report to the Head of Digital Experience, and your team is based in Tianjin, China. You will collaborate with several business areas and suppliers globally.
These will be some selected responsibilities:
- Support the team in creating product specifications in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria, to ensure the stable team have all required information to deliver the desired outcome.
- Lead the product discovery process for assigned capabilities (including hypothesis generation, requirements gathering, design, and scoping) in collaboration with the digital product managers, UX designers, data analysts, and engineers.
- Assist the Digital Product Managers in ensuring that the product development backlog is properly organized, prioritized, and kept up to date.
- Contribute to the product vision and champion this vision with stakeholders and the stable team.
- Ensure that proper analytics, tracking and data collection mechanisms are in place to understand user behaviors and/or product performance.
- Provide the necessary product support to the stable team as may be required to aid their delivery.
- Work with other parts of the organization as needed to ensure expected outcomes are achieved and measured.
- Own team development to secure the team long and short-term plans for proper capacity and competence.
- Continuously reviewing the live product to identify areas for improvement and any deviations from the expected experience.
- Gather insights from data and customer feedback to refine the product.
- Managing relationships and agreements with external partners.
Who are you?
We believe you want to take your career to the next level, working with amazing people around the world. To succeed in this role, you likely have a university degree or equivalent experience and a background in leading cross-functional teams, preferably within IT management.
Strong communication skills and fluency in English is a must for this global position. You also have a strong understanding of costs, risks, and compliance related to development and operations to assess value effectively.
We believe this role requires:
- Experience in digital product orientation and agile ways of working.
- Knowledge of information technology trends.
- A passion for lifelong learning.
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and managing both operational performance and strategic transformation.
Location: Tianjin, China.
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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.