UX Manager Car

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.

We are looking for an experienced UX Leader to lead the team defining the In-Car experiences. This will be someone who has mastered the craft of managing and directing designers and researchers towards creating delightful experiences. Who can inspire organisations through storytelling and their team with thoughtful critique.  And who is forever championing the user through investments in research and insights.

What We are Looking For
We are searching for someone to lead our Car Platform, focused on defining the product experience in and around the car. Our UX leaders partner with their product and engineering counterparts, balancing input and strategy from our business stakeholders, to deliver exceptional experiences, and results for our users.

To be successful in this role, you are very motivated and can share your passion to also motivate the team and the wider organisation. You bring Design Excellence and can drive a team of design to craft effective and engaging experiences worthy of a luxury car brand, that solve real user problem and help drive business needs. You would bring management & leadership skills as well as have practical management experience with designers in agile product development environment, and you are able to foster and grow the culture in cross-functional teams through advocacy.

You are a collaborative. You are a team player and have deep history working with Product Managers, Developers, and Researchers, Business Partner teams as well as guiding your teams to work collaboratively with partners.

You are curious. You have a working understanding of how to discover unmet customer needs, create a shared hypothesis, prototype features and test the adoption of a paid service as a business model.

You will be responsible for co-leading a product area (ART), including management of 20+ designers focused on delivering outstanding tools and experiences to our growing user base.

What you’ll do
Alongside your Tech and Product counterparts, you will be responsible for leading a product area, which has responsibilities across many areas of Volvo Cars. This includes customer facing experiences on both digital and non-digital car interfaces. You’ll provide thought leadership to develop the right product strategy. Together, you’ll solve problems and come up with solutions that delight our users.

Shape the data-informed product design vision for the user experience of the products we make in this product area and create the space for others to collaborate across the entire product lifecycle and multiple product launches. You will put a premium on listening to users, both directly and through the work of our research and insight teams. You will build and shape a multi-disciplinary team to be highly performant and highly collaborative. You will work with partner teams team to deliver projects in a timely manner that meet product and design goals.

Who you are
You will carry 8+ years leading design teams with a variety of crafts (visual, interaction/IA, writing, research, etc.) at product organisations. You should have experience in coaching startups on design, iteration and prototyping to create human centered design strategies as well as leading teams that create product solutions that mix software and hardware. You are a player/coach leader with practical design chops. You’ve shipped many consumer products over the years, and understand what it takes to create awesome, consumer-oriented experiences.

You have experience in driving product strategies. You’re a fantastic communicator. You have the communication skills to help you work cross-functionally with business stakeholders, You shine most at motivating others to carry forward and execute a strategy without needing to be in the room.

You have a user and data-focused design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your teams instincts through user feedback and data insight. You understand the role and importance of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. You are familiar and comfortable working within and contributing to large design systems that you may or may not own directly. Balancing the needs of the larger design ecosystem with the local goals of your product area. You have experience leading, mentoring, and managing designers to help grow their skills in research, design, ideation, innovation and UX systematic thinking.
A digital portfolio of work should be included with the application.

Contact
If you have questions regarding the position, please contact Robin Page @ robin.page@volvocars.com or +46723716969

If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact mark.chan@volvocars.com

Please note the CV's submitted via email will not be accepted. Please apply no later than the 21st of February.

(Please be prepared to provide a Portfolio of your work)