UX Designer; UX Design Chapter - Volvo Group Digital & IT

Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future


At Digital & IT, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With Digital & IT, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the Group? The time is now!


This will be us - your new colleagues within User Experience Design


User Experience Design is a newly created Chapter in Digital & IT. We have the goal to drive change through design in Volvo Group business teams by discovering user needs and using a data-driven approach to improve the usability of products and services across the company. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared openly. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we win together.


As a UX Chapter, we are focused on building our skills and developing our people in the user experience competencies needed to excel un crafting compelling digital experiences that add value for our business and for our customers. In our UX Chapter, we’ve defined areas of expertise of UX Research, UX Creation, and UX Strategy to guide competence growth of our design team. This team, as a Chapter will be supporting our employees at the Volvo Group in improving their understanding of UX best practices and methods to become a company that builds applications and services in a data-driven approach that puts people first.


This is how you can make an impact
Now we need you to join our team - this is your chance to truly make a difference for thousands of people in the transport industry, all over the world!


We seek an innovative problem solver, a collaborative team player, and a skilled UX designer who can handle multiple products of differing size and scope. You are driven by curiosity and passionate about user-centered experience design and able to handle both high-level vision and detail-focused execution. You will work through the different stages of the design process, doing user research, facilitate ideation exercises and workshops, create and test product prototypes and support and guide the development team in product industrialization.


From the UX Chapter you will work across multiple teams from one of our hubs in Gothenburg, Lyon, or Wroclaw collaborating closely with engineering, product, and business folks to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges.


Your background


We’d like to see you demonstrate experience in UX design and research and show that you understand and can communicate the principles of user experience design and UX strategy. We’d like to know that you are comfortable with some but not all of the methods and principles of Agile, Scrum, Lean Startup, DevOps, and Design Thinking. You should be passionate about driving strategic & technological transformation in a business focused, fact-based, and collaborative way to achieve real impact.


We expect you to be self-driven and comfortable taking the lead in discussions and workshops, with energy and drive and a “can-do” attitude. We also want you to join us in our continuous improvement work to find better and smarter ways of working. You should feel energized by working both independently and interdependently, have proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and thrive in managing, fostering, and enabling both the performing and performing aspects of the job.


Are we a good match?
In the Volvo Group, we have defined leadership as a set of observable behaviors that leaders exercise to achieve alignment towards our vision 2030, to better execute our strategy and for the Group to continuously renew itself in order to “Perform and Transform”. To reach our vision and deliver on our strong commitments, we need to pair “the will” with “the skill”. That is why our leadership principles are behavioral based. The principles Lead with Passion, Perform with Purpose and Transform with Vision are our values in action, and they will strengthen our culture.


In your role as Line Manager, we expect you to develop your area of responsibility by having the ability to define the right priorities based on a customer centric mindset. We encourage the ability to drive business forward and act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value (financial, cultural, or social) for others. We create an environment of continuous improvements and learning maximize the outcome of our work.


To achieve our goals, we collaborate within and across teams. We create a sense of unity and trust by nurturing open dialogues and collective work. We build a work environment where diversity in expertise, opinion and culture is valued.


Are you curious and have questions? Contact us!
Contacts:
Matthew Connors, Act. Head of UX Design Chapter, Volvo Group Digital & IT, matthew.connors@volvo.com
Nina Johansson, HRBP, Volvo Group Digital & IT


The location for the position is flexible but limited to the following locations: Sweden (Gothenburg), Poland (Wroclaw) and France (Lyon).
We are happy to receive your application.


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