Product Owner, Customer Meeting Points – IKEA app

WHY WE WILL LOVE YOU
We believe you share our IKEA values and that you are excited to join us in our journey to become the world’s leading omnichannel home furnishing retailer. You enjoy a real digital challenge, in an environment where everything is changing. You are passionate about working in a complex cross-functional environment with the focus on solving problems that our customers love and drives IKEA business results.
A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
We are seeking a Senior Product Owner to own the sub-products of Explore and Find within the IKEA app portfolio, delivering value to our app users in 30 countries in close collaboration with our workstreams and product teams. We expect you to play an important part in making sure that our IKEA app will become a great destination for consumers wanting to explore and find home furnishing solutions, inspiration and ideas for a better life at home. This is an exciting opportunity to make a direct and significant impact on one of the world’s biggest and most innovative retail brands.
Reporting to the Product Manager you will:
Own the strategy and roadmap for the Explore and Find sub-products ensuring that the delivery of outcomes meets objectives
Own and actively manage the digital product backlog and prioritizing items based on customer needs and business goals
Contribute to prioritisation of the overall roadmap and product strategy of the IKEA app
Providing insight, context and additional information as needed to help the team to understand what is required in the discovery and delivery processes
Work collaboratively with stakeholders and ensure alignment between cross functional teams and across domains
Coaching and growing the product team to a high-performing empowered team that develops products that our customers love

About you:
You will have more than 3-years’ experience within product management
Ideally you have worked with complex products, perhaps within an e-commerce company or with B2C mobile apps
You have extensive knowledge of product discovery techniques and delivering successful and innovative consumer experiences
Ideally you have a good understanding of retail and a curiousness about where the future of digital retail is headed
You are driven, but with a collaborative mindset. “You don’t win unless your team wins”
You are highly organized, with strong communication skills and like to work in complex environments
You are a “do-er”, willing to work hands-on including stepping in to work directly with the development team
You are a change agent helping us build a customer-centric world-class product development culture

This role is an open-ended contract and will be located in Malmö, Sweden or Amsterdam, Netherlands
TOGETHER AS A TEAM
At IKEA we believe in people and that we are always better together. Within Group Digital we set the digital agenda to keep IKEA leading in an uncertain and fast-moving environment. We drive the development, provision and operation of our digital products and services through the use of new and existing technology and agile delivery methods to deliver at pace. At the same time, we provide a home for digital skills to both develop and extend the technical, people and business skills needed to ensure continuous development and growth of our digital capability.
QUESTIONS AND SUPPORT? LET'S CONNECT!
If you have questions regarding the recruitment process or other practicalities, please get in touch with Namrata Mahajan at namarata.mahajan@ingka.com
We are looking forward to receiving your application and will review candidates continuously, so please submit your application as soon as possible but no later than November 12, 2021.