Digital Product Owner - Integration Office i Göteborg

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At Volvo Cars, we believe that being curious and truly committed to understanding people is the key to future success. We are people who care about other people, working together to create new technologies and innovations for safe, sustainable and convenient mobility. Want to join us?

If you want to grow together with talented people who are creating a new automotive future, we have a job for you.
We are on our way to our digital future in many different parts of our business. One success factor that we need, is new digital products that will help us deliver coherent user experiences. Our digital services will complement and enhance our vehicles, enable new business models and increase the pace of innovation throughout the enterprise. We put our users first by thinking with a human-centric mindset. 

What’s in it for you?
We are looking for a passionate Digital Product Owner for the area of integration provisioning within the cluster Integration Center of Enablement (ICoE). 
The Integration Office product resides within the Integration Center of Enablement Cluster which manages a set of integration platforms, currently 8 of them, where IBM MQ, RedHat 3scale, and Apache KAFKA are the key platforms. We maintain and operate these platforms and self-service portals to enable (state of the art) integration capabilities for all applications at Volvo Cars.

You will take an active part in the transformation around how we develop integrations at Volvo Cars by developing an efficient onboarding process for the product team to become empowered to use our self-service tools for integrations without having to rely on ICoE to the work. At the same time, there is both a transitional period as well as there will always be certain teams requiring support as well as more complex integrations that cannot be managed using self-service tooling, here you will make sure we have an efficient process with high quality in our deliverables along with happy customers. And of course, have lots of fun while doing it.

During the transformation, your team will act as a stakeholder towards the team responsible for developing VIP (Volvo Cars Integration Portal), which is our self-service portal for integration the “one-stop shop for all your integration needs”. You will work also work with all the users of VIP to gather and understand their needs together with the VIP team.  Timely provisioning of high-quality integrations to our applications are naturally critical in these times of speed and information exchange when digitalizing our company to grow. This team and product are crucial for our company to succeed. 

We are currently going through a major restructure of our cluster and we are creating 5 new products out of the current very large Integration product. As Product Owner for one of these products, you get the opportunity to be part of the exciting road ahead establishing the team and the product in a new way and building something exceptional together with the product team and cluster team. 

The purpose of the role.  As a Product Owner, you are in constant dialogue with our business stakeholders globally, the IT community, and with external parties to understand their needs and to help set creating solutions that support business objectives together with the rest of the teams within ICoE.  
You will head the work within ICoE around the provisioning of integrations for product teams at Volvo Cars and coaching the same to use our self-service tools. The team you will be leading is responsible for the following areas within the ICoE:
 • Integration process – you will be driving the way we work to deliver integrations in a fast and efficient way with high quality to the different product teams within Volvo Cars.
 • Onboarding process – you will be managing the onboarding and education of the product teams onto ICoE self-service tools (VIP, etc) helping the different teams in understanding how to build and also manage their integrations and use the tools in the most efficient way.
 • Documentation quality – you will be responsible for the document quality available in VIP; this applies both to the quality of the documentation as well as the completeness of it. There is a large documentation debt that needs to be addressed within the company.
 • Integration design – the team maintains and evolves the conventions around how we develop integrations and assists all product teams with design work when needed.
 • Integration development – the team develops integrations for all product teams when self-service is not possible.

What you’ll do:
Having very good knowledge around and within the field of integration and good strategic thinking is key to this role. Your main responsibilities will be: 
 • Own, prioritize and enable the quality of integrations we deliver to application teams and the product Kanban backlog 
 • Enable and support the refinement of the product’s ways of working around integration design and development so it is done in a high-quality way with efficiency; our focus is always on satisfied customers
 • Own, prioritize and facilitate refinement of the onboarding and education for users of VIP. Our focus is satisfied customers that understand how to use the available tooling
 • Actively collaborate with stakeholders as well as other teams
 • Actively participate within ICoE as a major stakeholder in the VIP development
 • Govern the quality and completeness of integration documentation within Volvo Cars
 • Govern the quality and completeness of integration design conventions within Volvo Cars
 • Manage our suppliers and optimize cooperation model with them
 • Manage financials associated with the assigned digital product
 • Proactively develop products strategically with long-term sustainability and excellent standard in focus

Who you are:We are looking for you who have work experience in a leading position - driving digital product strategy as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or equivalent role for a minimum of 2 years. You have extensive experience working with integrations and technology as well as integration strategies and understand the global environment in which Volvo Cars operates. Your dialogue with stakeholders is strong and well-articulated. You have worked with suppliers and are very comfortable with the dialogues related to both critical operations and development.  You have experience and a deep understanding in the value, function, and effectiveness of processes and you are used to work with measurements and process improvements. You are experienced in agile development methodologies and SAFE framework, you are an agile believer and you have worked in product teams. You are data-driven in your approach to decision-making and measuring your successes. You are also fluent in English, both verbally and written. 

As a person, you are customer focused and passionate about solving their problems. You are flexible, open to new ideas and always looking for ways to improve, and you love to initiate and drive transformation. You are energetic, have forward-thinking and you push for innovation. You are a strong collaborator and excellent at communicating, presenting, and relationship-building with teams and global stakeholders. You have a holistic viewpoint and an ability to inspire and motivate others to achieve the team’s goals. Also, you are a kind and positive person, with a clear technical interest. We would very much appreciate female applicants. 

We offer our employees excellent benefits such as:
• Plenty of leave to let you take time off for what's most important in life.
• At Volvo Car Group, all new parents with one year’s active permanent service now receive 24 weeks of parental leave, paid at 80 percent of their base pay. The policy is for everyone – whether you’re a designer or a plant operator, whether you work in Sweden, China, or the USA. Read more here: https://group.volvocars.com/careers/family-bond-by-volvo-cars 
• Collective Agreement and ITP pensions.
• An annual allowance to spend on your health and wellbeing.

How to learn more and apply?
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter no later than December 9th, 2022. Please note that due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications via email. 
For questions about the position, please contact Team Manager Louice Johansen, at: louice.johansen@volvocars.com.
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Abigail Glez at: abigail.gonzalez@volvocars.com.
 

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.

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