Do you want to lead a team of highly skilled engineers and transform how we derive value from our data assets?
We are now looking for a product owner in our new Business Tech organization, within the Analytics and Data Platforms product area.
We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech will deliver technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
In Business Tech, we will continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business - by releasing the power of people, data, and technology. We explore new ways of working, have a customer focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world
About the role
As a Product Owner, you will take responsibility for a product team building services around data and analytical processing, leveraging cloud services as an accelerator. You will help the H&M group to derive the most of our data assets - with ultimate accountability for the business and customer value it delivers.
To do this, you will lead a cross-functional, multi-competence product team in close collaboration with key stakeholders, always keeping customers at the heart of our focus. You will define the strategic vision for your team and create the product roadmap based on a deep understanding of the market / industry, emerging technologies within the field of data & analytics, insights & data on your customers, and input from stakeholders across the company.
Working closely with the Product Area Manager and other Product Owners to ensure overall alignment, you will set objectives & key results that your product will drive toward. You will also identify, build, and manage strategic partnerships across products, working to manage dependencies. Finally, you will play a key role in the Business Tech transformation, by assessing gaps and improving team composition, agile ways-of-working, technical backlog, and relationship with surrounding teams, always with support of the product area leadership.
The Product Owner has great leadership skills, believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. Focus is on value creation, growth, and serving customers with full ownership and accountability to deliver exceptional customer and business results.
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of the product (full lifecycle from ideation to optimization) with ultimate accountability for business and customer value delivered
- Set ambitious and clear product mission and OKRs and translate these into a prioritized roadmap and team backlog that drive agreed KPIs
- Ensure that the product has a long-term viable architecture by actively working with the architectural debt as an integrated part of the product roadmap/backlog
- Lead a cross-functional team including engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to execute and deliver value
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of market / industry landscape, emerging technologies in the data & analytics field, and customer needs through gathering & analyzing qualitative and quantitative insights to adjust strategy and priorities dynamically
- Clearly communicating the product mission, OKRs, and backlogs across the organization
- Translate customer needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their product
- Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles
- Utilize A/B tests for rapid iteration on potential product improvements
- Monitor and manage financial impact of decisions and priorities of the product team
Requirements – We are looking for you who
- Have a degree in business and/or engineering
- At least 5 year’s work experience and previous leadership responsibility, preferably with analytics and leveraging cloud
- Experience in leading a cross functional team, and experienced with deriving value from engineering principles such as DevOps and CI/CD
- Proven track record of delivering great results in analytics-focused products and initiatives
- Excellent communication skills
- Highly analytical with attention to details
- Strong in planning, prioritizing, execution, and follow up together with a “can-do attitude”
- Motivated to work in an environment that allows you to work and take decisions independently
- It is beneficial if you have previous experience from working with business or data analysis
- Fluent in English, both written and verbal
Our journey will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail, and learn. You are an important player in this transformation; therefore, we believe you are flexible, stress-resistant, and able to work in an environment that is not yet formalized.
What we can offer
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. You will report to Product Area Manager within Analytics and Data Platforms at Business Tech.
There are endless opportunities to grow, regardless of whether you are interested in developing functional depth or business acumen. Just let your skills, ambition and imagination drive you.
We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you!
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users.
Practical info
Please apply with your CV and Personal letter as soon as possible, no later than November 8th. We are looking forward to your application!
