Product Owner

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.

This is what your new colleagues do
We imagine that our friends, families, and children are transported in a personal, sustainable, and safe way. What we build is a self-driving, fully electric, connected, and super safe Volvo Car. But the current platform makes it hard for us to implement the features that we need to succeed. The overall technical threshold is that the +140 electric components in the car make up a complex system, not allowing us to innovate at the pace we want. Therefore, we build a new platform. The brain in this platform is the high capacity Core Computer. This Core Computer together with a new centralized signal system aims to enable optimized software architecture. This will give Volvo Cars a high pace deployment of future features enabling an autonomous, electrical, and connected car.

What you will do
As a product owner within Core System Platform you will work with defining the features and solutions building up our platform. You will specify and drive features enabling our solutions to be compliant with the highest safety grades in the car industry. You will work together with stakeholders to understand their needs and manage priorities for teams and architects, acting as their primary stakeholder. You will also maintain a roadmap to share your vision for your domain to align deliveries with car project needs. The domain you will work within is our BSP (Base Software Platform) that is an abstraction layer that encapsulates OS and hardware to provide basic services for our HP platform.

Who are you?
We want to work with you who have a keen interest in modern computing technologies and want to work in an evolving industry. You like solving problems together with others. You are a customer-oriented person who enjoys being part of a team where you take own initiatives and take pride in your own and the team’s deliveries.

You and your skills 
We think you have a broad background within requirements, architecture and processes for building software. You have probably worked with product definition before, as a Product Owner, Product Manager or Architect.

Your daily work consists of managing roadmap and backlog in a visual and transparent format. Managing requirements internally to build the backlog as well as towards suppliers. Support the development teams as an agile leader. Experience for software development, automotive, safety, security, embedded systems will be valuable in this position. You are also expected to understand and communicate the importance of well-defined interfaces, have a customer-oriented focus and provide clear documentation.

To be successful in this job we believe that you are good at explaining complex solutions adapted to the situation and the listener. Great written and verbal communications skills are needed, both in Swedish and English.

How to learn more and apply
Are you curious yet and maybe have some questions? Email hiring Roger Nilsson roger.nilsson.3@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Olivia Holm at olivia.holm@volvocars.com . To apply, please register your profile at our career site and attach your application documents as soon as possible. But recruitment will be addressed continuously. Please note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted. As we use our own channels for recruitment, we respectfully but strictly decline to be contacted for any offer of recruitment assistance from external companies.