Design Manager, Retail Systems UX-Product Offer

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Why now?
Volvo Cars is on an ambitious journey to redefine what it means to give people freedom to move in the most innovative times in the mobility industry. Volvo Cars is looking to redefine all aspects of its eco-system - from the vehicle itself, to how it is owned, driven, powered and purchased online. User Experience as a discipline is a key part of Volvo Cars' strategy and a newly formed UX organisation is helping gather insights about our user's and redefine and elevate the users experience of Volvo's products and Services.

We are seeking a UX Manager-Retail Systems to expand our team to support creating useful, efficient tools for our retail partners.

What you'll do
In a new role on a new team, Design Manager, Retail Systems UX—Product Offers will redefine what it means to buy a car online or at retailers by creating new systems that capture and enable end-to-end publishing of all of the products and offers at Volvo Cars. You'll be part of elevating user experience in collaboration with stakeholders in product and engineering.
You'll help the team see the entire retail landscape of the Volvo ecosystem and create buying and experiences for customers that are simple, seamless, and thoughtful. You'll advocate for the user and exceptional design with a high level of craft.
You’ll also lead the design of our Enterprise Design System, guiding the internal platform our enterprise products are built on. You’ll lead on everything from high-level design principles down to component implementation.

Who you are
We believe that you are a person who thinks big at the system level and has worked extensively using insights from data to inform and personalize user experience in internal systems and customer-facing retail, whether that's in automotive or in another data-rich industry like banking/fintech, health and medical, on-demand services, or logistics companies in which shoppers both shop online and in brick-and-mortar stores and continue to deepen their relationship with the brand post-purchase. You are familiar with working with internal tools and enterprise applications during the customer’s purchasing journey.

Location
Volvo Cars Gothenburg

Application
Applications and CV's will not be accepted via email. In this process, we work with continuous selection.

We are looking for someone who has:
* You’ve been in UX Design for 8+ years for consumer-focused technology, so you understand all aspects of product architecture, interaction and visual design, and UX research.
* You’re a strong communicator and collaborator with design partners, and other stakeholders from teams such as product, operations, and engineering.
* Strong UX fundamentals and user-centered design practices.
* Data modelling experience within UX, including architectural planning for complex systems.
* The ability to create a logical, consistent, and elegant structure from messy complexity, and to transition to a scalable set of global systems.
* Experience working with mature design systems.
* Two or more years of project leadership involving three or more complex projects.
* Experience with global retail and managing very large data problems are positives.


Show, don’t tell
Applicants must provide a portfolio or work samples of work as part of their application.