Product Owner - Antennas i Göteborg

Your leadership will make a difference

At Volvo Cars, we are always looking for world-class leaders who bring out the best in our people. If you want to be part of leading and inspiring our mission to change the automotive experience and make people’s lives less complicated, then we have the job for you.
 

What´s in it for you?

We are looking for a passionate Product Owner that can lead product development teams to deliver Antenna products and transform ideas into innovations to meet the high standards of connected vehicles. You will lead Antenna development teams that enable wireless communication and best in class antenna characteristics. We research, develop and verify integrated and distributed antennas for over the air and satellite radio, HP-GNSS, WiFi, BT, cellular communication (3G, 4G 5G), V2X, telematics and UWB/BLE/AoA antennas/sensors. We use modern tools and agile methods to create business value continuously. We ensure high quality and adaptability in our development and delivery. Of course, we have a lot of fun together while doing it.

The purpose of the role

As product owner, you will maximize value by owning and deciding upon priorities in the antenna team’s backlog from both technical and business perspective in order to streamline the execution, while maintaining the technical integrity of the features/components for the team. You are the voice of the Antenna product areas; you are communicative, have leadership skills and hands-on experience from antenna design and development.

What you’ll do

You will be articulating and consistently emphasizing the short- and long-term vision of the products to your teams and relevant stakeholders.

You will also be owning, prioritizing, and refining the features in the backlog, including continuous improvements and enablers; as well as participating in the development of acceptance criteria, and drafting them when feasible. Involving the team in backlog refinement to achieve minimum handover and maximum joint understanding; as well as understanding the scope of the upcoming enablers, collaborating with the team and technical architects to assist with decision-making, and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures.

We believe it’s important you are available to the teams and answering their questions as well as participating in sprint planning, demo and retrospective (as requested by the team).
You will actively coordinate content dependencies with other Product Owners.

It is also important that you are continuously developing your own skills and help the team and other Product Owners develop theirs. Participating as a member of the extended Product Management team, review, and contribute to the program-level vision, roadmap, and content presentations.

You and Your Skills

The antenna product area is a fast growing, high focus area where a lot of new connectivity functions will be developed for Volvo Cars’ upcoming platforms. You are experienced in driving product strategy and have both technical Product leadership and business strategy competence. 

You have experience from facilitating collaboration between teams and management with agile development methodologies. You are excellent at communication, presenting and relationship building with teams and global stakeholders.

To succeed, we believe that your background and skills include:

•    Leading and driving product strategy as a tech lead, engineering manager, product owner, product manager, project manager, or equivalent for a minimum of 5 years.
•    Strong understanding and practical experience of agile development methodologies for product development teams.
•    Experience with using various tools for managing and visualizing the progress and value of a product team.
•    High integrity and a bias for action will make you successful in this role.

How to learn more and apply?

For questions about the position please contact hiring manager: Anders Gustavsson at a.gustavsson@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact technical recruiter: Klara Ymsén at klara.ymsen@volvocars.com. We want your application at the latest July 25th, 2021. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted.

Location: Sweden, Gothenburg. Product Creation, Research & Development, Connected Experience
Job requisition ID: xxx
 

Who are we?

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