Product Owner

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By 2025, we aim to sell 1.2 million cars annually, 50% of which will be electric vehicles and sold directly to customers through digital channels. Join us on the journey of a lifetime as we create the driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.

Product Owner – Test Objects and Test Environment
Gothenburg, Sweden 

Software that makes a difference.
At Volvo Cars, we're bringing big and bold digital visions to life. By building and expanding our digital ecosystem, we're making it easier for people to live simpler, safer, and more sustainable lives. We want to welcome more curious and creative engineers who want to change the world - one line of high-quality code at a time. Our transformation isn't for everyone, but if you're excited about solving the technological challenges facing the auto industry, then this role could be for you.

In the Test Objects & Test Environment, (TOTE), Product Cluster at Product Creation Digital we support Research and Development (R&D) with IT capabilities needed in testing throughout the whole the car development process. A major part of our delivery is the Test Object Content Control (TOCC) umbrella where early phase builds are in the spotlight. The agile TOCC products supports the entire lifecycle of a test object, from creation and specification throughout the usage phase, and we are merely in the beginning of a very exciting journey for these products serving over 1500 users at R&D, Manufacturing Engineering and the Production plants globally. TOCC is being developed to increase efficiency by supporting increased Test Object utilization, Content Control and to modernise our old system landscape.

What you’ll do:
We now seek to strengthen our TOCC Core product, handling the main application where the objects are created and followed up, with a Product Owner who will be setting the course for this agile product and take it to the next level. TOCC Core is the global Test Object Process tool for the Test Object planning, ordering and monitoring. The application is communicating with all test object sites as well as the production facilities globally. TOCC Core will be a key application going forward and there is a lot of development in the roadmap, such as workshop and test planning.

As Product Owner, you’ll be prioritizing the backlog from a technical and business perspective and continuously keep open dialogues with our R&D stakeholders. You will take responsibility for creating, refining, following up on features and coordinating dependencies with the users and other TOCC teams. In this role you will need to establish a wide user network to understand, analyse and break down business needs before we translate them into digital support.

We are looking for someone with a strategic mindset and an ability to inspire and motivate the team in working towards a common goal. Are you passionate about leading, coaching, and empowering people? Do you share our passion for product verification and understand its importance to Volvo Cars? Then the role as a Product Owner within TOTE is the place for you to prosper!

What you’ll bring:
We believe you have experience from working as a Product Owner (eg. backlog pio, refining features etc.) with new development as well as operations in a product landscape with high demands on stability, perhaps in the automotive sector. This means you will have gained substantial experience working with global stakeholders, both within business and digital/IT to build trust-based relationships and open communication. You have experience in facilitating collaboration between teams and management with agile development methodologies and tools (tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Miro, etc.). You effectively align the interest of multiple, diverse stakeholders and takes constructive action to navigate difficulties or impediments. 

As a person, you have a willingness to try new things and challenge the status quo. You are motivated by working collaboratively in teams and continuously improving by giving and receiving feedback. You have excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Want to know more? We hope so.
Does this sound like your next move? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter via the link below no later than the 21st March 2023. We will not accept applications via email. However, incoming applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so please apply as soon as possible. For questions about the position, you are welcome to contact hiring manager Petter Kostmann at petter.kostmann@volvocars.com . For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Roza Cizek at roza.cizek@gmail.com. Please note that we will not accept applications via email.



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