Product Owner Global Features – Volvo Group Connected Solutions

Are you a person with strategic mindset who get things done? Do you want to be part of a team where we support each other to succeed? Our team is part of a global organisation leading the development of the Volvo Group’s connected services. For us “connected for efficiency, sustainability and safety” is much more than a tagline. If this sounds interesting to you, keep on reading!


At Volvo Group Connected Solutions, we work at the forefront of connectivity with data from more than 1 000 000 Volvo Group customer assets. Together with customers, partners and the Volvo Group we create real value, not only for our customers but also for society at large.
Are you experienced with delivering software services? Do you like to coach and develop others? Do you thrive when you get to work with stakeholders, secure business prioritizations and guide a development team toward success? Well, then this might be your perfect challenge!


The role
As product owner you will drive a product vision through all stages of its lifecycle by securing a road map with a backlog of capabilities and features within our Global feature product. You will also be responsible for keeping the budget and ensuring most value for money. You will have a tight dialogue with stakeholders in our different business areas and with their inputs prioritize the team’s backlog. You will make sure that we understand our customers’ needs, our business strategy, objectives and technology. In the role one important part is to collaborate and negotiate with internal and external parties such other organizations and iniatives.


You will act as a bridge between the business stakeholders and the development team. You will be working in a social environment which requires you to be a communicative and an extrovert person with good abilities in building and maintaining strong relationships. You need to manage and help the development team, while displaying owner’s mentality. You will drive the work to continuously improve the teams ways of working. You will work in a tight dialogue with your manager to support the growth and development of the team. You will also on a regular base share the vision and budget with LT team to strategically fill potential resource gaps.
You will lead, plan and report the ongoing work in relevant foras and communities. You will contribute and drive common topics in the Global features team and the Product Owner fora.
To succeed in this role, we believe you need a passion for understanding the user but also developing new solutions together with others, enjoy empowering people and embrace an agile mindset and culture.


Your profile
Most important of all is your personality and desire to drive a product concept. More than that we believe that you have long experience from working within a field close to or within product management. You are used to taking responsibility and have the ability to communicate on different levels and with different kind of people.


We also believe you have:
A strong business understanding and great relationship building skills. Your outstanding ability to coach, lead and encourage others makes your environment thrive and grow!
A university degree in a relevant field and many years’ experience of product ownership/Product management. Experienced with SAFe and agile ways of working. Work structured with a strong drive to make things happen, without having someone telling you what to do. Easily establish good relationships with all types of people. Experience from the automotive industry is considered beneficial. Great knowledge and ability to create and present product roadmaps and statuses. If not EU-citizen, have a valid work-permit for Sweden. Fluent in English – both written and spoken.

What can we offer you?
You will be part of the global features team and Digital channels eco-system. We are a team of developers, testers, UX, BA and architect who work together to create great products. We are of course using the latest technologies delivering a modern micro service based service platform hosted in the cloud. We use agile methods and are adopting the DevOps model. We want to set a new standard for user experience, speed to market and customer value. We will do this through modern leadership, people in focus and a true passion to really make a difference. We who work in this team have a lot of fun, are great collaborators and we all consider ourselves as leaders of our work and owners of our results.
Our main hub and headquarter is in Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg, a vibrant area that lives and breathes new technology like IoT, autonomous driving, electro mobility and digitalization.


Welcome to the heart of connectivity at Volvo Group Connected Solutions!
Does this sound like a perfect match? We look forward to your application.
Applications will be handled actively during the application period.


Want to know more? Contact us!
Please contact
Azadeh Larsson, Line Manager, +46 704432984


Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.