Engineering Manager | Wellbeing - IoT

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Senior Engineering Manager - Wellbeing IoT
Traditionally the appliance industry has been all about Hardware. Today, in the eye of IoT, voice assistants and autonomous systems, Software is increasingly entering the center stage to be married with hardware for a winning product experience. The Consumer Experience organization in Electrolux was founded to deliver on this journey and the focus areas cut across all Electrolux product categories. As a part of this journey, Electrolux is strengthening the team with an Engineering Manager experienced in fast paced, user-oriented software product development within the IoT space.
You will be part of a cross functional product team based in Stockholm, working with Design and Product management to lead the Engineering team developing our apps and API’s for our consumer products, such as robotic vacuums, air purifiers and air conditioners.
You will also play a key leadership role in the wider transformational journey of Electrolux Consumer Experience towards agile ways of working and user obsessed software product development.


Your Role:
This is a job for a person that can create and navigate a landscape where both hardware and software product development, as well as new business models and traditional retail business models, co-exist and keep the friction between them manageable.
The mission is to lead the Software Product Engineering team at Electrolux with a focus on the apps and services within the Wellbeing experience area, globally.


Main responsibilities:
•As an Engineering Manager you will nurture a culture of trust, freedom, responsibility, quality and pride in what we do and how we act.
•You constantly grow our team with competence and capability over time, always ensuring possibility for people in our team to develop their skills, experiences and careers.
•In your role you will participate in the development of our products and organization from both a strategical perspective as well as taking active part in our daily operations.
•You engage in active leadership for product and team development through our OKR process and through daily cooperation within the leadership team.
•You will also be responsible for financial planning, cost management and budget processes.


Who you are:
•You are transparent, confident, energizing and prestige-less.
•You understand and can balance the teams need for context and information with their need for protection and focus.
•You work in, and encourage, cross collaboration leveraging diversity and open feedback
•You know how to inspire, motivate and support a team to get things done
•You are good at communicating technical concepts, ideas and decision-making to stakeholders at all levels, in different shapes depending on the context
•You have previously demonstrated time management, communication and prioritization skills
•You know the importance of evolving a technical vision towards a scalable platform structure
•You are passionate about IoT and willing to continuously learn and explore new digital solutions.


As a person you:
•Act with integrity, honesty and morale
•Are open and want to grow by learning and developing yourself
•Are a strong internal and external communicator
•Are a true team player


Preferred career experience and skills:
•Minimum 8 years’ experience from consumer-facing agile software product development.
•Preferred experience from similar engineering leadership roles.
•Required experience from working with DevOps teams in cloud environment, preferably Microsoft Azure.
•Required experience from iOS and Android app development, preferably in a cross-platform technique like Xamarin or React.
•Required experience from insights and data driven design and experimentation.
•Experienced working closely with hardware & firmware developers, UX designers, and Product Management.


Language:
•Fluent in spoken and written English


What we offer:
Electrolux offers an exciting and challenging job opportunity in an international environment, with a high degree of independence and entrepreneurship.
The Electrolux Group provides career opportunities within a global, fast moving, growing yet lean organization. This role will have several touch points within the company.


Who we are:
At Electrolux, we have a top management team who are passionate about gender diversity and diversity in general. It’s integral to our Talent process, in how we grow talent. It’s embedded in our initiatives and we have strong metrics to track this. But it’s not just from the top. There is a network called Women at Electrolux operating in six major geographies that generates belief from the grassroots and keeps the topic top of mind. That combination is for us very powerful.
In terms of metrics, we have very clear targets. To get to the right rotation, the right successions, we must take tangible steps. We push ourselves to find great talents male and female.


ABOUT ELECTROLUX GROUP
Electrolux is a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, based on deep consumer insight. We offer thoughtfully designed, innovative and sustainable solutions, developed in close collaboration with professional users. Read more about what we do here: http://www.electroluxgroup.com/en/