Release Coordinator

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.

Release Coordinator for our new central SW platform in future Volvo Car  

We imagine that our friends, families, and children are transported in a personal, sustainable, and safe way. What we build is a self-driving, fully electric, connected, and super safe Volvo Car.     
To embody this vision of ours, we will build a new SW platform. The heart of the platform will be a core computer with the capacity to carry a vast majority of electric control units and applications- a vehicle control unit. We have taken large and determined steps towards becoming more of a software developing company and where our products give the driver’s a car-experience that improves every day. We look for curious, creative people who want to continue this journey through innovative thinking 

About the department - Core System Software
We have come to an important step in the development of our new software-centric platform. In our part of the R&D, we code the base software on the Core Computer to refine computational power and to enable successful integration with applications. Our teams work in an agile manner organized according to SAFe to be able to quickly adjust to changing requirements.   
We work with an a-state-of-the-art embedded multiprocessor environment from Nvidia including hypervisors, Linux, QNX, Rust, Robot Framework, and other modern technologies.  

Role specifics  
As a Release coordinator within CSP your main focus is to consolidate the SW releases for the department. The releases consist of 7 nodes withing the platform. The work consists of coordination activities, structure release process. You will be responsible to plan and track the progress on releases to meet project expectations and milestones. 
You will, together with your team secure qualitative releases with known content and, drive release and process improvements and make release available for stakeholders. You will be the main contact for stakeholders and secure correct usage of our releases. The team consists of SW coordinators, Configuration manager and a quality assurance engineer 

You and your skills
We believe you have a keen interest in SW development and specifically for securing quality of a SW release. You have a clear ambition to create processes and targets that enables developers and work effectively while securing costumer needs. 
As a person you have strong customer focus, enjoys the possibility to influence and you love to be part of a team where we take own initiatives and take pride in your own and the team’s deliveries. You should have prior SW release management experience and high communication and coordination competence. A background within SW development in meritorious. 

Interest and application  
We are curious what you think about the future. Would you like to know more about our R&D and the role?  
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. As we use our own channels for recruitment, we respectfully but strictly decline to be contacted for any offer of recruitment assistance from external companies.