Digital Product Owner (EaaS - DPO)

at  Volvo Group

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure 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.
The Volvo Financial Services Global D&IT team is seeking a senior Digital Product Owner (DPO) for our Equipment as a Service platform to act as the link between the stakeholders and the development teams.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

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.
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.
At Volvo Financial Services, we are working together to shape the world we want to live in. As the captive finance arm of the Volvo Group, VFS provides financial services and solutions that meet the needs of our customers’ evolving business. Through our dedication to innovation, we support society in its adoption of sustainable transport and equipment solutions. VFS is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, and serves Volvo Group customers and dealers in more than 50 markets

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a DPO, you will lead an agile team of Solution professionals playing a key role in transforming the product vision into value creation. You will turn the product roadmap into working deliverables in your team backlog, aligned with the overall strategy and product vision. You will be a member of the stable team responsible for managing the team backlog.

Your starting point will be to, together with your colleagues at VFS (Volvo Financial Services) and in the broad cross-functional network at the Volvo Group, take responsibilities in the following areas:

• Lead a diverse global team focused on product engineering, development, and implementation
• Ensure transparency, understanding and dependencies of the team backlog.
• Clarify team purpose, strategy, and business priorities.
• Secure that the digital product is developed and maintained in compliance within given architecture, security requirements, and digital product strategy until decommissioning is completed.
• Manage budget and financial follow up for the of owned digital products and solutions
• Manage dependencies and collaborate with other teams and business partners, as needed.
• Secure that SLAs (Service Level Agreement) are established and fulfilled end to end for any solutions managed by the team, for both the delivering and consuming services.
• Manage lifecycle management and support of digital products and solutions in team scope.
• Secure that the team regularly collects feedback on implemented work.
• Contribute to digital product roadmap and capacity planning.
• Responsible for team and culture development to secure proper capacity and capability for its delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE INCLUDE:

• Strong Business Analysis, Problem Solving and Decision-Making Capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology Management or Computer Science
• Five plus years of experience in Digital Technical Product development and Digital Product lifecycle management (you build it, you run it)
• Five plus years of experience and in-depth knowledge of agile methodology, Scrum methods for digital product management, incl testing approaches and technologies
• Experience and ability to identify, track, and manage dependencies within product roadmap and release plans, ensuring smooth delivery execution and timely delivery.
• Outstanding communications, presentation, leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to effectively manage priorities and conflicting needs of stakeholders
• Experience and understand Solution architecting, component development, Infrastructure monitoring and maintenance, user role management, and API development.
• User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design experience
• Ability to have fun and a willingness to try new things and challenge the status quo.