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.

We are ART Electrical & Software Engineering, part of Vehicle Software & Installation within Digital, Volvo Cars. We provide, develop, and maintain an extensive suite of digital solutions with the sole purpose of enabling best-in-class vehicle software development. To succeed, we work in close cooperation with our R&D organization, joint ventures (Zenseact, Polestar et.al.) as well as other departments within Digital. Our solutions span from Complete CI ToolChains (Gerrit, Zuul, Artifactory, Blackduck to name a few), High-Performance Computing, Compilers, and other tools for Software development and engineering. We are a highly diverse and engaged team, currently constituted by 60+ team members divided into 8 product teams. We are growing and we want to grow with you! Currently, we are looking to expand our team with an additional Digital Product Owner.

As Digital Product Owner you will play key role in our ART working closely with our peers across the Digital and R&D organization. You will hold the responsibility of defining and prioritizing adequate activities that enhances and optimizes the overall delivery of your product. You will own, build, prioritize, decide, and refine the roadmap and deliveries backlog, work with our Product Manager and other Product Owners to define and maintain the roadmap as well as validate backlog items making sure they meet the acceptance criteria, definition of done (DoD) and the appropriate tests. Moreover, you will represent E&SW in several meeting foras and accompany the E&SW Product Manager in roadmap dialogues.

As Product Owner for Artifacts and Quality your product scope includes solutions for:
• Enterprise-level binary management at a scale requiring engagement at the forefront of industry developments.
• Software Composition Analysis to follow-up of OSS license compliance and vulnerabilities driven in close collaboration with R&D Open Source SW Council, of which you will be a member.
• Static Code Analysis to improve software quality with cross-functional collaboration. 
The breadth of the scope and the requirements on the solutions makes it an interesting, challenging, and developing role. Working with a great team and energetic stakeholders makes it enjoyable and inspiring.

You and your skills
We believe you have a Master or Bachelor of Science degree, or relevant technical experience gained from previous positions. You master the art of stakeholder management paired with excellent communication and collaboration skills (English). 
You thrive to work in an agile DevOps context and have previous experience as preferably Product- or Service owner. 
Furthermore, we see that you are well acquainted with embedded software development, preferably from the automotive area and are experienced from working with modern cloud-based solutions, virtualization and microservices.
You have good understanding of concepts such as Continuous- Integration/Delivery and cybersecurity and have experience from working in a global environment.
This position will be based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Does this sound like your next goal? 
Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter no later than February 18th, 2022. Please note that due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications via email. 

For questions about the position, please contact Niclas Johansson, nicklas.johansson@volvocars.com.  
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Abigail Glez: abigail.gonzalez@volvocars.com.