Product Owner i Lund

It's not about technology. It's about life.

At Volvo Cars, we’re on a mission to make people’s lives less complicated. We never start with technology and try to squeeze people in around it – we always design our cars around people, and we innovate to provide safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

This is us. 
Volvo Cars have an ambition to expand our in-house software development. At the department of Core System Software, we are part of this ambition. Our teams are building the next generation high-performance in-vehicle compute cluster, designed to host different vehicle applications, stretching from basic vehicle state machines to advance active safety and unsupervised autonomous drive functionalities. This compute cluster will be launched in our coming generation of pure electric and self-driving Volvo models. Our task is to create a safe, reliable, and secure software that serve as a platform for our stakeholders and partners to deploy applications on. 
 

We are now looking for leader to take on the role as Product Owner for Continues integration of Core System Platform.
  
What you´ll do? 
As a Product Owner (PO) you will own, build, prioritize, decide, and refine the stories in the team’s backlog including defects and enablers. You will participate in the development of acceptance criteria for stories and support the team with review. You will take lead in the coordination of content dependencies with other product owners and relevant stakeholders. You will also work closely with subject matter experts to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures. 
 
In addition to the daily interactions with your teams, where you play an important role as a servant leader, you will also be a member of the product management team and review and contribute to the product areas vision, roadmap, and content. 
 
Core System Platform is at the center of the transformation of VCC from a “traditional” automotive company into a powerhouse of high-complexity / high-quality software development, and your responsibilities as a product owner will include to support this transformation through your ideas, through listening to the needs of the organization, of other Product Owners and your colleagues in general, and through helping define the common direction of the Core System Platform organization. 
  
Do you fit the profile As Product Owner for Continues integration of core system platform?
As the Product Owner of Continuous Integration, your mission is to connect, through automation, the build, verification, packaging and release of the Core System Platform product into efficient and well-working continuous integration pipelines supporting 20+ (growing quickly!) development teams. To your aid, you have 2 dedicated Continuous Integration teams with strong competence in large-scale Continuous Integration from both VCC and elsewhere. As a Product Owner, you will guide these teams towards your goals through your leadership, your communication and your definition and prioritization of work to be done. 

Skills that will help you in your role as a Product Owner for Continuous Integration include: 

• Strong experience with Continuous Integration, especially with high-complexity and/or embedded software. 
• Experience in both technical and non-technical leadership, preferably of multiple teams. 
• Ability to listen to and understand the needs of others, balancing these needs with your own vision and goals, to create a plan and work packages that others can work on. 
• Understanding of the full software lifecycle. From the challenges to get hundreds of persons code to work together, to the challenges connected to testing, releasing and continuously improve the code. 

 
You have knowledge of the toolbox or similar below, Jenkins, Zuul, Git/Gerrit, Python, Azure, Grafana, Configuration management and knowledge/experience from at least one modern programming language is an advantage. Fluency in spoken and written English is required. 
 
What do we offer? 
Everything we do starts with people and we want to be the employer of choice where people make the difference. We encourage and support our people to a happy and healthy lifestyle – whether mental, physical, or social wellbeing. Therefore, we invest in our facilities, providing excellent collaboration areas, we offer both proactive health benefits and a safe working environment, and we drive an inclusive working culture where our teams have fun every day. You will be offered possibilities to develop your competence and you will have possibilities to grow your contributions in our organization over time. 

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position please contact Johan Fast at johan.fast@volvocars.com. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact recruiter, Olivia Holm at olivia.holm@volvocars.com. We want your application at the latest 2ond of May 2022. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted.

Location: We are based in Gothenburg but also have an office in Lund.  

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.