Product Owner - Connected Experience

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 we offer
The Connected Experience unit within R&D includes Remote Functions, Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform, Infotainment Platform, Applications and Data & Diagnostics. Our vision and strategy is to maximize the attractiveness of owning and using a Volvo, make all cars connected and provide a continuously enhanced experience for both new and existing cars. 

Our Agile Release Train (ART) Remote Functions mission within the Department Car Cloud Platform and Remote Functions is to enable remote functions globally to contribute to the overall connected experience. We build, provide, and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users. We aim to optimize functional and organic growth by using cutting edge standards from Car Connectivity Consortium® together with cloud services, the latest technology from phone OEMs and connectivity. This new way of using your phone as the key for your car will open up for a new connected experience. The journey into the future starts here.

What you will do
In the new domain of digital key and approach the phone will become the primary key for your car. This adds high demands on the team and the product owner. Here we are looking for a product owner who can help us build and maintain our roadmap looking into our future. The approach software that aims to predict if the user will use the car or not is based on UWB localization data and other data inputs. The goal is to prepare the car before the customer enters the car, to provide the best possible user experience. Our solution aims for the enhanced user experience. The planning of tasks will include development of a secure NFC card access system as well as coding for the digital key in car as well as cloud development. There will be stakeholder management with Phone OEMs such as Apple and Google and other external suppliers. 

Common tasks will involve you to maintain the long term road map as well as be a visionary about the future of the solution. You will prepare and prioritize tasks for the team and between other solutions. You are a stakeholder management, both internal and external. You to present solutions and the statuses to Business Owners and other management. You will also attend and occasionally facilitate agile ceremonies. You will take ownership of the product backlog.

You and your background
You are experienced in automotive with at least a couple of years in the industry, this is not your first rodeo. You have a quality mindset with a high sense of visionary thinking. Our solution is very much in deep into ECU, Embedded development, Cyber security, Cloud, Machine learning, Wireless technologies to name a few. 

This role is challenging and rewarding. You will need to be structured in very firm way and also be able to execute on a vast amount of different tasks and also help in defining the work to be planned and implemented. 

You should carry a BSc or higher degree along with a few years of experience from the automotive industry. You should also bring experience as a Product Owner or similar. You should have experience in agile methods, preferably SAFe. 

What would be considered a beneficial skills and experience would be successfully prioritizing backlog along with working with CI/CD environment.

Being a team player with strong collaboration skills will fit in very well with your cultiure. You should have good communication skills; the ability to share verbally as well as in writing in a clear, concise manner to both technical specialists and people without technical knowledge.

You are structured and analytical way of taking on tasks and performing on a daily basis in a result oriented way

How to learn more and apply 
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your CV no later than August 1st, however incoming applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so please apply as soon as possible. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Mark Chan (mark.chan@volvocars.com). Please note that due to GDPR regulations, CV's submitted via email, will not be accepted.