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.

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.

We’re looking for an experienced UX Leader to join our Design department and lead the team defining vehicle 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’re looking for:
* Motivation. You can share your passion to motivate the team and the wider organisation.
* Design Excellence. Driving 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.
* Management & leadership. You 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.
* 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.
* 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.


What you’ll do
You will be responsible for leading a team of 50+ user experience professionals focused on delivering outstanding experiences to our growing user base. Alongside your product and engineering counterparts, you will be responsible for leading a product area. This includes customer facing experiences on both digital and non-digital car interfaces. Work with partner teams team to deliver projects in a timely manner that meet product and design goals.
You’ll provide thought leadership to develop the right product strategy and share and communicate the product direction and strategy across the organization.
Build and shape a multi-disciplinary team to be highly performant and highly collaborative. Guide the teams to work with a human-centered mindset, being informed through the work of our research, analytics and insight teams.

Who you are
You have 9+ years leading design teams with a variety of crafts (visual, interaction, information architecture, writing, research, etc.) at product organisations. You have experience in leading product strategies and managing teams that create product solutions that mix software and hardware. You are a player/coach leader with practical design skills. You’ve shipped many consumer products over the years, and understand what it takes to create awesome, consumer-oriented experiences. 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 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.

Contact
If you have questions regarding the position, please contact Thomas Stovicek, email: thomas.stovicek@volvocars.com

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 30th of June.

*A digital portfolio of work should be included with the application.