UX Designer - Innovation

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.

What You will do :
As a UX Designer within the Innovation Arena, you will primarily focus on design that enables product discovery in a rapidly partner-enabled ecosystem. You will also be a strong facilitator for innovation in the company, helping scale methods and learning to those working closer to product delivery.
Through UX practice, you will lead the way for exploration, experimentation and incubation of future products and services together with experts in business, brand and technology. You will meet ambiguity, abstraction and uncertainty with curiosity and thoughtfulness. You will take delight in creating vision, structure or content through UX for others because most often there might not be a prior way to rely on.
Your primary responsibility will be to deliver end-to-end user experience design artefacts - user flows, stories, wireframes, and prototypes that balance design aesthetics with intuitive functionality for speculative experiences. You will work closely with user-researchers and other experts to test critical assumptions, gathering valuable data and learning about emergent areas of opportunity. You will help use user-experience design as a tool to test hypotheses and share learning across the company.
As a UX designer you will ultimately advocate for future desire in our experiences and offers. You will develop deep empathy for future human needs and frictions, serving as an expert for humans amidst business, brand or technology directions.

Who you are:
* You’ve been designing for 4+ years for a consumer-focused tech company, so you understand what it takes to create elegant, consumer-oriented experiences.
* You can demonstrate a strong 'hunter-gatherer' mindset. You can hunt for diamonds in the dirt using design skills for discovery and speculation, instead of delivery.
* When faced with uncertainty or complexity, you have a proven knack for innovation methods that help build empathy, clarity and simplicity.
* You are a strong facilitator who relishes in helping others learn how to think differently.
* You are a versatile designer who uses a full range of skills—product design, interaction design, and visual design — to ensure you deliver magical experiences to the customer.
* You have strong experience in service design and experiences beyond the screen and are able to shape intangible experiences into something tangible.
* You’re a strong communicator who can inspire teams towards action and empathy for the user.
* You are a strong collaborator, who can work with not only design partners, but many other stakeholders from marketing to engineering.
* You have a people-focused design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback. Whether that’s hands-on user research or a quantitative A/B test.

Show, don’t tell
Applicants must provide a portfolio of work as part of their application.Location
Volvo Cars Gothenburg or Stockholm
Contact & Application
Applications and CV's will not be accepted via email. In this process, we work with continuous selection.