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.

What’s in it for you?
We are looking for a Product Owner for Managed Workstation in the Digital Workplace product cluster. Managed Workstation is divided into the areas of Configuration-, Print- and Virtual Workstation Management. You get the opportunity to run a big product team, setting the roadmap, strategy and vision for Managed Workstation within Volvo Cars. 
We are in the frontline when it comes to providing a modern digital workplace combined with evergreen solutions enabling new technologies and ways of working for larger enterprises, and one of your responsibilities is to drive the area into even higher levels of cutting-edge technologies. We are also in the beginning of building our Digital Employee Experience, and how our product will tap in is for you and the team to explore. 
What you’ll do 
You will be Volvo Cars’s Product Owner for Managed Workstation, articulating and consistently emphasizing the short- and long-term vision of the product and its services to the team and relevant stakeholders. You will own, decide, prioritize and refine the objectives and expected key outcome in the Team Backlog. You will ensure that the product requirements are in alignment with the overall strategy.
You will review and reprioritize the backlog as part of the preparatory work for increment including coordinating dependencies with other Product Owners. You involve the team in backlog refinement to achieve minimum handover and maximum joint understanding.
Another important part is to work with Product Managers to define and maintain the roadmaps with the non-functional requirements to manage operational risks and keep our IT systems safe, modern and evergreen whilst maintainable and always on.
You will govern and be responsible for the global services providing Windows and Mac configuration management, Desktop and App sessions, Pull and push print-out and Workstation Health Monitoring.
You will be the main stakeholder and work close with our suppliers in our joint venture to develop and provide these services and managing the underlying agreements.
Do you fit the profile? 
We believe that you have deep experience of working with physical- and virtual workstation management in larger enterprises. You have a deep knowledge in workstation configuration management, i.e., designing, managing and maintaining Windows/MacOS as well as Virtualization platforms to provision services in the Digital Workplace scope. 
You are experienced in supplier management, writing service agreements and related requirements, outcome and service level targets and used to drive negotiations. In summary, we believe that you have:

•    Minimum a university or IT degree at a Bachelor level or equivalent work experience
•    Experience of Agile processes (Scrum & SAFe)
•    Experience of Virtual Workstation & Configuration Management
•    Knowledge in Print-out services and technologies 

Who are you? 
We believe that you are passionate about technology and how it can help us collaborate better. You are engaged and eager to drive change within Managed Workstation product area combining your strong technical, communicative and people related skills. You have an excellent ability to take initiatives, plan and execute. 
You like to try out new things and you are confident that the best is yet to come! To be successful in the role as Product Owner you are confident in communicating broadly and professionally in a global context, managing English both written and spoken, voicing digital products in the context of employee benefits. 
Your leadership skills will be valuable when voicing and negotiating priorities within the product team and with stakeholders. Leading by example as you and the team manage initiatives in a global business environment. Lastly, you encourage transparency and knowledge sharing.
How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume via the link below no later than the 22nd of January 2023. 
For questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Jenny Johannesson, Team Manager, at jenny.johannesson@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Jonathan Allirol at jonathan.allirol@volvocars.com. 
Please note that we will not accept applications via email.