Product Owner for Enterprise Core ( 348625 )

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Are you ready for a new challenge in a company that encourages you to take your competence and skills to the next level?
We are looking for an engaged Product Owner to contribute to Ericsson's market-leading 5G cloud packet core products and solutions.
 
The Solutions Department develops products and solutions for the Ericsson Cloud Core – one cloud packet core for all accesses and services, with dual-mode operations, 4G and 5G. We deliver Massive IoT, Mobile Broadband and Enterprise Core on different cloud environments.
What we do is a vital part of the accelerating digital transformation, building our networked society where everything and everyone that can be connected will be connected.
 
Position overview
PDU Packet Core is looking for a Strategic Product Owner (SPO) for the Enterprise Core Solution. This role is combined with the task of being Operational Product Owner (OPO) for Deployment of Packet Core Solutions, leading the teams for Deployment Validation and the System Manager Team.
The open position is within the section Solution Design and System Management. This section consists of around 20 System Managers and Product Owners.
 
Responsibilities & Tasks:
Your primary task is to set the directions for the Enterprise Core Product. An equally important task is to lead two teams, the SM Deployment team and the Deployment Validation team. You will:
Produce Roadmap for Enterprise Core
Together with product line and peer OPOs keep roadmap and function plan up to date
Explain what, when and why to deployment and SM teams
Keep backlogs up to date with regards to Feature priority and F-states
Define features on EPIC level for teams
Be Packet Core point of contact towards VMware
Be part of Packet Core solutions program team to aid program and resource planning
Together with SPOs define long term evolution of Packet Core solutions
Support teams to deliver on time e.g. by negotiating scope and priorities
Be responsible for updating Solution release notes together with other OPOs

 
Competencies we value in this role:
Leadership skills:Communicate clearly and ability to explain tasks
Keep team motivation high
Ability to coach and provide feedback 
Moderate meetings and perform stakeholder management
Collaboration skills:Seek collaboration across organizational borders
Travel is expected
Presentation skills:Should be comfortable to present for large crowds
Previous experience of following technical areas is important to be able to execute on responsibilities: IP Routing & Networking
Linux Operating System
Mobile Packet Core
Software development
Cloud Technologies

 
Location for this position: Göteborg, Lindholmen.
 
Please send in your application in English as soon as possible since the process is ongoing.
 
 
Why is Ericsson a good place to work?
Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation.  We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With close to 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.
 
At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favorite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. Often, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.
 
 
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Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || || Göteborg || R&D
Req ID: 348625