Product Owner - Digital Key - Automotive Industry

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?

In the new domain of digital key and approach the phone will become the primary key for your car. This adds high demands on the team and the product owner. Here we are looking for a product owner who can help us build and maintain our internal roadmap looking into our future. Our area is growing and we need to expand our internal delivery team for solutions to other parts of the team. This includes platform software, test automation, and requirements and system design within the teams. Our deliveries are very complex and span over everything from mobile devices, through the cloud, to internal ECUs in the car.

The approach software that aims to predict if the user will use the car or not is based on UWB localization data and other data inputs. The goal is to provide the customer with the best possible user experience in the user journey of keys. Our solution aims for the enhanced user experience. The planning of tasks will include development and maintenance of a secure NFC card access system as well as the system for the digital key in the car. There will be stakeholder management with external suppliers on ECU level and can also be towards Apple and Google in device management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the long-term roadmap
• Being visionary about the future of the solution
• Preparing and prioritizing tasks for the team and between other solutions
• Stakeholder management, both internal and external
• Presenting solution and status to Business Owners and other management
• Attending and occasionally facilitate Agile ceremonies
• Ownership of the product backlog
• Synchronization on all above with the Product Owners in our group

You are experienced in the automotive industry with at least a couple of years in the industry; this is not your first rodeo. You have a quality mindset with a high sense of visionary thinking. Our solution is very much in deep into ECU, Embedded development, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Machine learning, Wireless technologies to name a few.

This role is challenging and rewarding. You will need to be structured in a very firm way and also be able to execute on a vast number of different tasks and also help in defining the work to be planned and implemented.

Mandatory background:

• You have a few years of experience within the automotive industry and feel confident in your knowledge in this area
• Experience as a Product Owner or similar
• Experience in Agile methods
• Relevant education, BSc or higher or equivalent professional career

Beneficial background:

• Confident in prioritizing the backlog
• Used to working with a CI/CD environment
• Software development background

Personal qualities

• Team player with strong collaboration skills
• Good communication skills; the ability to share verbally as well as in writing in a clear, concise manner to both technical specialists and people without technical knowledge
• Structured and analytical way of taking on tasks and performing on a daily basis in a result-oriented way

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Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations so you can reach your fullest potential.

And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more are on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!