Product Owner API Management - Shared Software Development

At IKEA, we aim to make healthy and sustainable choices affordable and accessible for all. To make that happen, we need people with imagination. People who know that everyone has a right to feel at home. People who share our vision of a better everyday life. Together we’ll innovate the future of life at home through data, technology, retail and home furnishing know-how. We need future architects, down-to-earth data scientists, unboxed engineers, cyber guardians, common sense makers and more! Are you one of them?

As Product Owner you will:
Lead the product team and take lead in prioritizing, coordinating, and managing the development, deployment and operation of the product, according to the set-out business goals.
Manage the product backlog, and together with the product team, scope and prioritize activities based on business direction and goals, business and customer impact.
Continuously optimize ways of working in your product team and with other key stakeholders.
Support in the design and lead the implementation of a vision of an Inter IKEA wide API developer platform, which will become part of the shared software development offer.
You will work closely together with business product teams and architects and serve as partner to the business development areas across the organization and IKEA franchisees by sharing your expertise regarding APIs and the API developer platform
Ensure that the published APIs into the portal are vetted and well documented so they can be immediately ready to be used securely and consistently across the IKEA organization and potentially external partners.
You are the champion the API development platform, ‘API first innovation’ philosophy to product teams across the IKEA value chain and partners that interact with platform in order to stimulate autonomy and innovation speed
Help teams consume the API development platform services and CI/CD pipelines uniformly, helping developers make the most of the resources, features and possibilities while minimizing variation across teams and ensuring that the business product team to only focus to delivering “business logic” value through their connected streams.
Enable Dev/Ops culture and take ownership of API developer platform technical tooling for observability, testing, deployment and configuration and collaboration including their life-cycle management.
Continuously looking for and adapting new fit for purpose technologies supporting IKEA API development community eco system
Serve as partner to the business development areas in long-range planning about new or projected areas of technological research and advancements.


This is a fulltime role (40 hours per week) based in Malmö, Sweden or Delft, Netherlands.

We want to understand the why! Tell us, as part of your application, why you think you would be a good fit for this role. Applications without a motivation letter will not be taken into consideration. 9th June 2022 is the closing date to apply for this role. If you have questions regarding the process, you're welcome to connect with Lisen Götze (People & Culture) at lisen.gotze1@inter.ikea.com.

Please note that internal candidates will be taken into consideration first. 

About IKEA  

At IKEA, we do things a little different. We think, differently. Act, differently. And work differently as well. We like to break things. Like rules. And then make things. Like music-playing lamps. And beds disguised as sofas. Even plantballs that help us look after our planet. It’s all part of our vision - to create a better everyday life for the many. And it’s been keeping our co-workers going for over 75 years. By 2030, we hope to help millions more look forward to going home. Maybe you can help us.

Creating long term success for IKEA, together (Business Transformation)  
We want to become an even more affordable, sustainable and accessible home furnishing retailer in an omni-channel reality. We bring business and data & technology together to improve how we work and meet customers, and enable us to focus on creating value. So we can continuously improve and scale IKEA, together with our partners and the many people.  

IKEA Shared Data & Technology builds up, delivers, serves and supports shared data and technology for the IKEA value chain. Together we build a digital foundation to enable our core business partners and franchisees to work more efficiently and create a rewarding customer experience in an omnichannel world. 

At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant. 

Another thing fuelling our success is our values-based culture. While we are unique individuals with endless differences, something we share is our commitment to lead by example, work together, find better ways and to get things done. We believe in life-long learning, where we all play a part in helping each other (and our business) grow.  

Read more about us at https://about.ikea.com  

For data, tech and digital roles, read more at ikea.com/tastethefuture