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. 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.

What’s in it for you?
We are looking for a passionate Product Owner that can coach and challenge our product team in delivering an outstanding Enterprise Data Warehouse for Volvo Cars. You will join the Core Services & Development product cluster within Data Platforms at Volvo Cars. This product cluster delivers end-to-end solutions for the management of Volvo Cars data. We are enabling capabilities like Enterprise Data Warehouse, MDM, Data Lake, and Data Visualization with tools like Snowflake, Power BI, and xDM to provide a best-in-class data platform. Of course, we have fun together while doing it.

What you’ll do
You will be coaching the team and people in all aspects of agile ways of working and mindsets. You and your team will enable Volvo Cars Enterprise Data Warehouse for multiple teams with a framework, including things like architecture, conformed dimensions and best practices, etc. This will be done with close collaboration with your team members (architects, developers, and Scrum Master), but also other teams within the cluster. You will be working with stakeholders across the whole company, enabling them to make use of their data for analytical use-cases. Data producers, and consumers. Creating a state-of-the-art Enterprise Data Warehouse where all data is interoperable and with a consistent architecture.

Your main areas of responsibility are:
• Steer the development of our Enterprise Data Warehouse, the technical platform but also data architecture, best practices, and enabling conformed dimensions for various teams.
• Own the product backlog, plan, and lead refinement sessions as the product expert.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Maintain a network of stakeholders and partners to develop and maintain a keen understanding of their support and requirements.
• Identify relevant use cases of stakeholders and prioritize according to our roadmap and company vision.
• Prepare solid specifications for new features to be developed by our Data Engineering team
• Communicate with business stakeholders on questions regarding the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Identify opportunities for business improvement based on our current setup
• Unblocking the team and removing impediments

Who you are:
We are looking for you who love data and have solid experience in Data Warehousing, Data product development, Data Governance, MDM, and BI preferably as a Product Owner or Product Manager.  You have experience within Data Management in general (Data Management Framework). You possess s very good understanding of database concepts (both relational and dimensional) and Experience working in an Agile environment (SAFe).  In addition, you have a complete understanding of the product owner role and what is expected of you when working with development teams, you are used to working will multiple stakeholders and have the capability to facilitate workshops and perform activity & story mapping exercises. 

As a person, you are solution and delivery oriented with a strong drive and problem-resolution approach. You are a servant leader, culture and people driven, with a team before me mindset and good presentation skills.  We believe you have the ability to create an environment that fosters high-performing teams. You should have the ability to drive and create commitment. It is important that you have integrity and a change management mindset.  You can communicate with both developers and businesses in a convincing way, furthermore, you are easy to collaborate with different types of people and want to work cross-functionally.  It’s natural for you to lead others with the ability to earn trust while still challenging the team to improve and operate outside its comfort zone

The position is located in Gothenburg, and the major part of the workweek is needed in the office. 

We offer our employees excellent benefits such as:
• Plenty of leave to let you take time off for what's most important in life.
• At Volvo Car Group, all new parents with one year’s active permanent service now receive 24 weeks of parental leave, paid at 80 percent of their base pay. The policy is for everyone – whether you’re a designer or a plant operator, whether you work in Sweden, China, or the USA. Read more here: https://group.volvocars.com/careers/family-bond-by-volvo-cars 
• Collective Agreement and ITP pensions.
• An annual allowance to spend on your health and wellbeing.

How to learn more and apply?
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter no later than September 5th, 2022. Please note that due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications via email. 
For questions about the position, please contact Anders Skördåker at anders.skordaker@volvocars.com.  
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Abigail Glez: abigail.gonzalez@volvocars.com.