Product Owner

We are seeking a Product Owner to join an agile team for a customer project in Stockholm.

They empower the organisation to comply with global and regional product policies in a safe, inclusive and sustainable way, thereby delivering the best products to their customers that make them look and feel good.

You will get the opportunity to work in a dynamic & creative Product Area where the teams have the responsibility for the Design & Product Development of tech solutions for the organisation. They have just formed their teams and their area, so they have an adventure and learning journey ahead of us in many ways.

The product team has high agile maturity and consists of a team of approximately 10 people, located in Sweden and India, with close collaboration with colleagues in Hong Kong.

We are looking for a person who has experience of leading hands on agile tech deliveries in a business context with a strong customer focus and willingness to learn.

Key responsibilities

- Take end-to-end ownership of the product (full lifecycle from ideation, through requirements, tech implementation and rollout to optimisation) with ultimate accountability for business and customer value delivered
- Lead a cross-functional team of engineers and business expert to execute and deliver value
- Translate customer needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their product
- Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles
- Provide great tech solutions for your product and ensure tech is an accelerator
- Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders to ensure optimal collaboration across relevant business functions in the broader company
- Establish and manage relationships with key external vendors to ensure optimal collaboration and long- term strategic partnerships.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of market / industry landscape and customer needs through close collaboration with key stakeholders and users to adjust strategy and priorities dynamically
- Clearly communicating the product mission, OKRs, and backlogs across the organisation


Essential (must have) skills, knowledge and experience

- English language proficiency
- At least five years of leading and supporting hands on agile tech deliveries in a Product Owner role and/or as a Scrum Master
- Knowledge of agile methods such as scrum, Kanban, SAFe
- Experience from working with development teams from ideas and requirements, to implementation, delivery and maintenance
- Understanding of DevOps concepts and an interest in operational stability and excellence


Qualifying skills, knowledge and experience

- Swedish language proficiency
- Experience from working with distributed and/or outsourced teams
- Worked with tools such as JIRA and confluence


Personal attributes

- Flexible and able to balance between internal and customer interests
- Ability to understand and analyse complex information and share it in effective and powerful communications
- Ability to understand people psychology and to connect to people to encourage new behaviours
- Ability to take responsibility, work proactively and continuously improve activities in complex, quickly transforming environments


Additional information

Start: January 2021

Type: FTC (fixed-term employment)

Duration: 8 months

Workload: 100%

Salary: Dependent on experience

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Before you apply

We receive a large number of applications. In order to allow us to make a fair assessment, it is important that you spend some time crafting a good explanation of how you will succeed in the position and why we should choose you. Please connect your answer to the specific requirements, and how your skills, experience and personal attributes will contribute to it.

Apply with a multi-page, clear CV, preferably in Word format. We prefer CVs where previous employments and projects are described as mini case studies. Please ensure that all relevant skills are mentioned in your CV.

Due to the volume of applications received, we are unable to provide individual feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

You must be a Swedish, Nordic, EU, EEA or Schengen citizen or otherwise have a right to work in Sweden.