Product Owner for System tests and measurements

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.

This is us.
Volvo Cars have an ambition to expand our in-house software development. At the department of Core System Software, we are part of this ambition. Our teams are building the next generation high-performance in-vehicle compute cluster, designed to host different vehicle applications, stretching from basic vehicle state machines to advance active safety and unsupervised autonomous drive functionalities. This compute cluster will be launched in our coming generation of pure electric and self-driving Volvo models. Our task is to create a safe, reliable, and secure software that serve as a platform for our stakeholders and partners to deploy applications on.

Core System Platform is at the center of the transformation of VCC from a “traditional” automotive company into a powerhouse of high-complexity / high-quality software development, and your responsibilities as a product owner will include to support this transformation through your ideas, through listening to the needs of the organization, of other Product Owners and your colleagues in general, and through helping define the common direction of the Core System Platform organization. We are now looking for a leader to take on the role as Product Owner to System tests and measurements.

What you´ll do?
As a product owner (PO) you will own, build, prioritize, decide, and refine the stories in the team’s backlog including defects and enablers. You will participate in the development of acceptance criteria for stories and support the team with review. You will take lead in the coordination of content dependencies with other Product Owners and relevant stakeholders. You will also work closely with subject matter experts to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures. In addition to the daily interactions with your teams, where you play an important role as a servant leader, you will also be a member of the product management team and review and contribute to the product areas vision, roadmap, and content. You will lead teams working with testing of our system solutions, in different forms. Altogether your teams will quality assure and measure our maturity, while contributing to deliver an automotive grade SW that meets relevant standards, e.g., cyber security, and functional safety.

You and your skills
You are a customer-oriented person who enjoys being part of a high performing team where you take own initiatives and take pride in your own and the team’s deliveries. You are curious, always eager to learn and have an innovative mind-set. You embrace the agile principles and you have a continuous improvement mind-set. We believe that you have previous experiences as a leader or architect in a software organization, or similar. You probably have previous hands-on experience of working with performance testing, stability testing, test case development and/or test framework development.  Fluency in spoken and written English is required.

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position, drop an email to recruiting team manager Marie Fast, at marie.fast@volvocars.com.  For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Catharina Skog at catharina.skog@volvocars.com. Selections will be running continuously. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted.