Product Owner - Sustainability and Data

Let's create the future together.
At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for personal, sustainable and safe mobility. Want to join us?

 

What’s in it for you?
We are looking for a passionate Digital Product Owner that can lead one of our product teams and deliver outstanding business value. You will join the Sustainability product cluster within Digital Core at Volvo Cars. This product cluster delivers digital solutions that support Volvo Cars in becoming a leader in sustainable business, with bold ambitions to reduce our carbon footprint per car by 75% until 2030 and be a climate neutral company by 2040. We use modern tools and agile methods to create business value continuously. We ensure high quality and adaptability in our delivery. Of course, we have fun together while doing it.  
 
Volvo Cars is actively working to eliminate potentially harmful substances from its products and the product IMDS & Health is responsible for supporting the IMDS (International Material Data System) management at Volvo Cars. IMDS is a global data repository that contains information on material used by the automotive industry. We are both contributing to the database through supplying data on our products as well as consuming data to analyze our products. Through this methodology we can work proactively to choose safe and sustainable materials in our cars as well as securing compliance of produced cars.  
 
What you’ll do
As digital product owner, you will maximize value by owning and deciding upon priorities in the digital product team’s backlog from a business perspective to streamline the execution, while maintaining the technical integrity of the features/components for the team. You are the voice of the user, you have a business perspective and some technical know-how. 
 
You will be articulating and consistently emphasizing the short- and long-term vision of the product to the team and relevant stakeholders as well as ensure increased stability for our products by close collaboration with the operations teams.
 
You are leading the backlog refinement and make sure to involve relevant participants to achieve minimum handover and maximum joint understanding as well as understanding the scope of the upcoming enabler work. You have a close collaboration with the team and architects to assist with decision-making, and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures. You will actively coordinate content dependencies with other Product Owners and clusters.
 
We are looking for you who will be validating stories making sure they meet the acceptance criteria, definition of done (DoD), and has the appropriate tests and draft the team’s specific objectives.

You will follow agile practices working in 2-week sprints and 12-week PI-increments. However, we are pragmatic about frameworks and are constantly evaluating how to work in the best way, applying common sense to ensure as little waste as possible.
 
It is also important that you are continuously developing your own skills and help the team and other Product Owners develop theirs. As a Product Owner, you are part of the cluster leadership team and are expected to participate in cluster discussions and contribute to the program-level vision, roadmap, and content presentations.
 
You and your skills
You are experienced in driving product strategy and operations as a Product Owner or equivalent role. You have experience of working with new development as well as operations in a product landscape with high demands for stability and data quality. 
 
Experience in facilitating collaboration between teams and management with agile development methodologies. You are excellent at communication, presenting and relationship building with teams and global stakeholders.

Preferably, you have some background in material technology and/or material information management  and/or automotive product development. 
 
You as a person
•    We believe that you are user-focused and passionate about solving their challenges.
•    You are flexible, open to new ideas and always looking for ways to improve.
•    You are energetic, forward-thinking and you push for innovation.
•    You have a holistic viewpoint and are value-oriented, with an ability to inspire and motivate others in working towards a goal.
•    You are experienced as a leader.
•    You can communicate in the English language both verbally and in writing.

 

We are excited to receive and review your application. Kindly apply for this position through our job’s portal, enclosing your CV in English by no later than Friday 22nd March. Due to GDPR we will not accept applicati