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Product Owner - High-performance platform
Let's create the future together.
The future belongs to those who are empowered by great ideas and can carry them out. At Volvo Cars, our purpose is to provide freedom to operate in a personal, sustainable, and safe way. Do you want to be part of creating a safe, reliable, and secure platform for our future Volvo models?
This is us.
Volvo Cars has an ambition to expand its 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 computing cluster, designed to host different vehicle applications, stretching from basic vehicle state machines to advanced active safety and unsupervised autonomous drive functionalities. This computing cluster will be launched in our coming generation of pure electric and self-driving Volvo models. Our task is to create safe, reliable, secure, and innovative applications.
Our multi-core architecture includes high-performance (HP) systems on a chip (SoC), providing a framework for current and future services.
We are now looking for a product owner with a genuine drive to manage and lead product-related work towards agile teams that are based on organization and business needs.
What you´ll do?
In our part of the R&D, we develop the Base Software Platform (BSP) for the Core Computer. We do that to provide computational power and to enable successful integration between applications.
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 the 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 the decision-making and sequencing of the key technological infrastructures.
In addition to the daily interactions with your teams, you will also be a member of the product management team and review and contribute to the product area's vision, roadmap, and content.
Our teams work in an agile manner organized according to SAFe to be able to quickly adjust to changing requirements. We work with a state-of-the-art embedded multiprocessor environment from Nvidia including hypervisors, Linux, QNX and other modern technologies.
The team develops platform software executing between the applications and the QNX and Nvidia drivers. As a product owner (PO) for your teams, you will work with team backlogs, architects, requirements, and roadmaps, ensuring that we are creating solutions that are secure, safe, and reliable.
Do you fit the profile?
As a Product Owner (PO) you have a broad background in requirement handling, architecture, Functional Safety, Cyber Security, and different processes connected to software products. You have several years’ experience as a Product Owner, Architect, or Product Manager and have a good track record handling agile software teams backlogs, and roadmaps and setting prioritization on work to be done.
Delivering requirements, internal as well as towards suppliers, working with roadmaps, and product evolution will be part of your daily work. Protocol stacks, software security, and software safety in embedded systems are key experiences that will be valuable in this position.
As a Product Owner within a High-Performance Platform, you deliver a software platform by working together with Product Managers, Agile teams, Architects, Suppliers, and the Engineering Manager. You are also expected to understand and communicate the importance of well-defined interfaces, a customer-oriented focus, and clear documentation.
Skills that will help you in your role as a Product Owner include:
• Strong experience with embedded software and high-complexity systems
• 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 and the challenges connected to testing, releasing and continuous improvement of the code base.
• Strong communication skills that enable you to balance stakeholders, enable work and drive results efficiently.
• Knowledge or experience within Cyber Security, Functional Safety and ASPICE
• Experience of Real-time systems, SW architecture, and Ethernet/IP Networking is preferable
To be successful in this assignment we believe that you are a leadership personality with good insight to balance the load on your teams.
You are also an expert in balancing your time between current workflow and upcoming work packages by keeping your roadmap updated. You enjoy your work since you are structured and enjoy explaining complex solutions to others in an easy way. Making tough decisions is something that you have experienced since you know when it is needed.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, both in Swedish and English.
Experience with the following tools will assist you in this role:
- JIRA/VIRA
- Jenkins
- Project planning tools
- Requirement management tools e.g., System Weaver
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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.
Location: Gothenburg
Interested in learning more? We are looking forward to your application!
Please note that applications via email will not be approved. Interviews will be held continuously. To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below before October 31st.
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.
29-09-2024
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