Senior Product Owner - Driver Times Management

Do you want to work in the forefront of connectivity?
Are you a person with strategic mindset who get things done? Volvo Group Connected Solutions is a global organization that leads the development of the Volvo Group’s connected services and solutions. We work with advanced technologies and data from over 1 000 000 connected customer assets. Connectivity is a major cornerstone for creating more efficient, cleaner, safer transport and infrastructure services and solutions. You will play an important part in this. Being based in Lindholmen, Gothenburg, you will work in the heart of a vibrant area that lives and breathes new technology.


This is us, your new colleagues in the Driver Times Management team
We are a true dev ops team and create great results together. We listen to our customers and develop services to meet their needs. We want to set a new standard for user experience, speed to market and customer value. We have a lot of fun, are great collaborators and support each other to be successful. We all consider ourselves as leaders of our work and owners of our results. Together we make things happen. In our team we have the possibility to work from the office every day but also the option to work remotely three days a week.


What will you be doing?
As product owner your focus will drive a product vision through all stages of its lifecycle by securing a road map with a backlog of services and features within a service area. 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 back log. You will make sure that we understand our customers’ needs, our business strategy, objectives and technology.
You will act as a bridge between the business stakeholders and the dev ops 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 ensure that the road map is delivered on and help the development team, while displaying owner’s mentality. You will drive the work to continuously improve the teams’ ways of working together with the scrum master. You will work in a tight dialogue with your manager to support the growth and development of the team members through sharing feedback on team members and resource gap. You will also on a regular base share the vision and budget with the team manager to enable, the manager to strategically to 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 Fleet and Transport Management team and the Product Owner fora.’


Your personality is your major reason for success, but you also have:
Experience from delivering software as services. You are used to lead, take responsibility and communicate in an excellent way on different levels and with different kinds of people. You easily coach others and you are a good listener and team player. We believe you have strong business understanding and great relationship building skills. Your outstanding ability to coach, lead and encourage others makes your environment thrive and grow!

In addition to this we believe that you:
Have a university degree in a relevant field
Are fluent in Swedish and English – both written and spoken
Have many years’ experience of product management
Have experience from agile ways of working and are familiar with SAFe
Work structured with a strong drive and make things happen, without having someone telling you what to do
Easily establish good relationships with all types of people
Have been creating and presenting product roadmaps and statuses in an excellent way
Experience from the automotive industry is considered beneficial
Experience from being a product owner is beneficial
Have a valid work-permit for Sweden, if not EU-citizen

We hope that we have caught your attention and are looking forward to your application!


Welcome to the heart of connectivity at Volvo Group Connected Solutions!


Applications will be handled continuously during the application period.
Johanna Utbult, Manager, +46 31 322 95 37