Product Owner to Azure Platform, H&M Group

Job Description


We are looking for a Product Owner to our Azure Platform product team! We are developing enterprise scale self-service cloud platforms to enable even faster value creation for the entire H&M Group – meaning you will support development and deliveries for more than 8 brands and 350+ product teams! If you would be excited to work both on strategic product vision as well as sprint goals and feature prioritization for our Azure platform, then this is the opportunity for you!
We have come far. We have been named best in class as Center for Cloud Enablement by Microsoft. We have presented our Cloud transformation journey and success stories on events like Microsoft Ignite, DevOps Enterprise Summit and Tech Days Sweden. We frequently push the agendas of GCP and Azure and we interact with engineers and product teams to support the needs.
Our mission is to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across the H&M Group, therefore we believe you are flexible, curious and like to work in an environment that is not yet formalized with a lot of exciting visions ahead. You are a natural networker with good communication skills who enjoys growing long-term relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, which makes you great in collaboration with key stakeholders, always keeping customers and users at the heart of your focus!
The Product Owner role
The Product Owner role for our Azure Cloud platform is a strategic one, it’s our main infrastructure platform supporting the entire H&M Group and brands. You will take end-to-end ownership of the product with accountability for value delivered and set ambitious and clear product mission and quarterly goals, translate these goals into a prioritized roadmap and team backlog that drive agreed KPIs. Your product spans from cloud security, cost management, driving cloud maturity, enabling cloud transitions, and doing automation. Automation allowing developers and others to get fast access to cloud and maintain it efficiently. In addition to this, you will also:
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of market / industry landscape, staying up to date with Cloud vendors and services
• Establish and maintain relations and collaborations with comparable enterprises, also allowing benchmarking the Azure platform against theirs.
• Interact with vendors (e.g. Microsoft) for advice and for driving our interests and requests to implementation
• Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles
• Monitor and manage financial impact of decisions and priorities of the product team
Who are you?
We are looking for a driven Product Owner with great technical and leadership capabilities. We believe you are either an experienced Product Owner/Team lead with a strong interest in cloud, or perhaps you are a Azure Cloud architect with experience building and maintaining Cloud platforms – with a drive to shift path towards product. You have a truly agile mindset with the ability to inspire and bring people together and we believe you have a structured and pragmatic approach to setting and communicating priorities in a dynamic environment. Furthermore, you also have:
• An ability to shift between the broad stokes with long term or overview perspective and paying attention to details and being highly analytical
• Worked in a global context and managing stakeholders on both executive and operational levels
Who are we?
Shaping the future of fashion with people, data, and tech - The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers technology and sustainability expectations. At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of retail by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.

What we offer!
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.


Additional information


This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm, Marievik.


Please apply with your CV as soon as possible but no later than 2022-05-30. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Jakob Knutsson, jakob.knutsson@hm.com or Anna Ekeroth, anna.ekeroth@hm.com.