Job Description

<h3>Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.</h3><p>Use your talent to drive towards a better future</p><p>If you are a passionate and innovative Digital Product Owner, join us to create XR solutions to enable a smarter, safer, and more sustainable transport and infrastructure industry. At Volvo Group, the future’s not just bright, it’s circular. Join us to be part of a global and diverse team with the power to reshape our industry. Tomorrow’s vehicles and construction equipment are electric, connected, and autonomous, increasing safety and reducing environmental impact. Our ambition for 2030 is to be 100% safe, fossil-free and more productive, and to have 50% of Volvo Group revenues generated from areas other than our physical products. In this goal, the XR solutions that you will shape will play an important part.</p><h3>Drive our Digital Transformation</h3><p>Several areas of interest have been identified as part of this shift to digital deliveries at the Volvo Group, among them solutions within Mobility and XR (Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality). The Digital & IT business area includes a Mobile & XR Team composed of over eighty people worldwide, with over twenty currently dedicated to XR deliveries. In the XR team, we have an opening for a Digital Product Owner for our Virtual Reality Team as described below.</p><p>The shift is here, are you in?</p><h3>What you will do</h3><p>Your mission in this Digital Product Owner position is to turn the Virtual Reality roadmap into a set of deliverables in your team’s backlog. Our virtual reality solutions started a few years ago with virtual training initiatives, and this scope has expanded to include sales and marketing, as well as onboarding initiatives with new employees. You will support and lead an Agile stable team of colleagues and consultants that will prototype, develop, build and deploy all applications within the delivery basket for Virtual Reality to support needs in the business areas across the Volvo Group. You will coordinate with your team to define the end-to-end product lifecycle from business analysis, requirements gathering, user experience, development, testing, delivery, and maintenance in virtual reality applications. The current VR team are working in an Agile process defining and crafting immersive experiences from global Volvo sites including Greensboro, Wroclaw, Vénissieux, and Gothenburg. The team is composed of Digital Consultants, Software Developers, UX Designers, and Business Analysts.</p><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><p>As Digital Product Owner, you will:</p><ul><li>Define user stories and prioritize the product backlog for the Agile teams engaged in Virtual Reality, ensuring that the backlog is visible, transparent, and understood</li><li>Clarify team purpose, strategy and business priorities on virtual products and services</li><li>As trusted partner with the business stakeholders, you will elicit requirements, understand and communicate expected business outcomes, and develop product features to meet those needs</li><li>Manage budget and financial follow up for the of owned digital products and solutions</li><li>Secure that the team regularly collects feedback on implemented work</li><li>Facilitate capacity management and resource allocation discussions across the stable team</li><li>As an engaged collaborator, you will foster the relationship between business stakeholders and the product team, collecting necessary feedback from the business and users to inform the product backlog</li><li>Shape product delivery and development, including product strategy and overall product roadmap</li><li>Establish and ensure fulfilment for any solutions and support managed by the team</li></ul><h3>About you</h3><p>You are a passionate, innovative, and driven solution leader with professional experience of XR development, or similar experience in application deliveries. Building successful software solutions and solving new challenges motivates and energizes you. You collaborate well with others and can thrive in multi-cultural & multi-disciplinary teams and are comfortable making business decisions for application deliveries. Using innovative technology to solve both new and old problems excite you.</p><h4>Required competencies:</h4><ul><li>Ability to solve complex IT challenges with a bias for action</li><li>Ability to manage tasks, work in sprints (SCRUM), work with User Stories, find and produce documentation (Experience how to operate with supporting tools JIRA, Confluence)</li><li>Knowledge related to requirements gathering; ability to craft and edit business proposals and coordinate with Volvo Group purchasing team</li><li>Good presentation skills and workshop facilitation experience</li><li>High facility in English language, written and verbal</li></ul><h4>Desired competencies:</h4><ul><li>You fulfill some or all the below competencies, and you are aware of your strengths and weaknesses in all of them:</li><li>You are an ambitious person eager to upskill your competences</li><li>You have an interest in XR technology and working knowledge of augmented reality, mixed reality, and a drive to learn more about emerging technologies</li><li>You have knowledge in Agile, Lean, team building, and learning management systems, to advise the team in their efforts of streamlining Augmented Reality products</li><li>You are comfortable coordinating with stakeholders and SMEs in several countries in the Volvo Trucks manufacturing and sales network; Sweden, France, Belgium especially.</li></ul><p>We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.</p><p>Who we are and what we believe in</p><p>Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.</p><p>Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.</p><p>Group Digital & IT is the hub for digital development within Volvo Group. Imagine yourself working with cutting-edge technologies in a global team, represented in more than 30 countries. We are dedicated to leading the way of tomorrow’s transport solutions, guided by a strong customer mindset and high level of curiosity, both as individuals and as a team. Here, you will thrive in your career in an environment where your voice is heard and your ideas matter.</p>