Product Owner for Platform Software Services - Gothenburg

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.

Product Owner for Platform Software Services in future SW-centric Volvo Car
We imagine that our friends and family are transported in a personal, sustainable, and safe way. We visualize an environmentally friendly car that autonomously drives us to work or that it drives our children to school and that we can feel perfectly fine about it. What we build is a self-driving, fully electric, connected, and super safe Volvo Car. But the software architecture in our latest cars is complex. In fact, they are so complex that we cannot proceed with this platform to take the next level of an electric, autonomous, connected, and safe vehicle. Therefore, we build a new platform. The idea is that it will have a software-centric architecture, a built-in core computer that will run every application in the car. This new centralized signal system aims to enable scalable software architecture and continuous deployment, over-the-air data updates, and real-time decision-making for autonomous drive. 

About our R&D – Platform Software Services 
Building this new software-centric platform is highly prioritized and we are facing a new stage. Our department was established to take lead in the coming challenges. Our ART is newly assigned by a team of Software Engineers with both a holistic understanding of SW architecture and a commitment to details and quality code. We are responsible for governing API and application architecture for the software in the Electric Control Units. We set deliverables, frameworks, patterns, and policies that are fundamental for other development teams to build with consensus. We also act as development support by working together with teams to succeed with development and integration. 

We are looking for a Product Owner in Gothenburg
To succeed with our mission, we will need a Product Owner to maximize value-added work by owning and deciding upon priorities in the Team Backlog from a business perspective to streamline execution, while maintaining the technical integrity of the features/components for the team. 

Role Specifics  
You will own, for example, build, prioritize, decide and refine the stories in the Team Backlog including defects and enablers and approve and sign Change Orders. It will be a responsibility of reviewing and reprioritize the backlog as part of the preparatory work for Iteration including coordination of content dependencies with other POs and all relevant stakeholders. You will draft the team’s specific objectives for the upcoming program increment and participate as a member of the extended Product Management team and review and contribute to the program-level vision, roadmap, and content presentations. 

Requirements
We believe you are a former embedded software engineer who is motivated by challenging tasks in a complex and innovative environment. Needless to say- technology and teamwork is your real passion. You enjoy learning from others, as well as, sharing your knowledge with your colleagues. You are fluent in English and can communicate effectively with all types of stakeholders. You are a social, analytical, and problem solver.  
•    M.Sc. in Electrical and/or Computer Science, Software Engineering  
•    At least 8 years of experience from working with embedded software development, committing code as well as and handling requirement within software projects 
•    Experience from working on embedded software in large-scale agile software companies 
•    Experience from PO, Scrum Master, and/or Managerial responsibility. 

Meritorious  
•    Experience within Automotive and from working in an international environment 

Interest and application 
We are curious if this might be the next thing for you. If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact Hiring Manager, Henrik Svensson at henrik.svensson.4@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Daniel Grape at daniel.grape@volvocars.com. To apply, please register your profile at our career site and attach your application documents as soon as possible since recruitment is ongoing. Please note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted due to GDPR.