Digital Product Owner

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.

What you will do

As a Digital Product Owner for Product Compliance area, you will be involved in development and maintenance of products to manage Part (chemical composition & hazardous info) & Chemical Compliance (Chemical properties & human safety) information for AB Volvo product compliance needs. Your responsibility is to identify and define the solutions that will maximize the value delivered to stakeholders. All work is done in agile teams in iterative collaboration with developers. You are expected to contribute and act as role model in all activities required to achieve customer satisfaction.

We are seeking a candidate with passion, you will work closely with business representatives, product managers, architects, engineers, and operations to ensure that our platforms deliver measurable value and are ready for use in production. Your responsibilities will include:

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy: Define and evolve the product vision, roadmap, objectives, and success measures, aligned with business priorities.

• Business Value & Prioritization: Identify and prioritize business needs for reusable Agentic AI capabilities, balancing customer value, risks, technical dependencies, and capacity.

• Backlog Ownership: Own and refine the team backlog, ensuring clear priorities, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and expected outcomes.

• Cross-Business Reusability: Promote the reuse of Agentic AI capabilities across business areas while accommodating justified business-specific needs.

• Product Evolution: Leverage user feedback, adoption insights, and performance metrics to drive continuous improvements in usability, quality, and business value.

• Technology & Governance: Collaborate with architecture, security, privacy, AI, and engineering teams to ensure solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, maintainable, and responsibly designed.

• Operational Readiness: Coordinate dependencies and ensure readiness for onboarding, releases, support, monitoring, and ongoing operations.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Communicate priorities, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and expected outcomes to stakeholders.

Key Competencies

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Demonstrated ability to translate business challenges into product direction and actionable delivery plans, taking accountability for outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

• Communication & Collaboration: Strong English communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders, influence decisions, resolve conflicts, and drive cross-functional alignment.

• Drives engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.

Who are you?

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering in mechanical, chemical and Computer Science, or a related technical field.

• Product Ownership: Proven experience as a Product Owner, preferably in automotive, manufacturing, or enterprise digital solutions.

• AI & Agentic AI: Good understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, and Agentic AI concepts, including orchestration, automation, and enterprise use cases.

• AI Product Development: Ability to translate business needs into AI-enabled product capabilities, assess feasibility, identify opportunities for reuse, and define measurable business outcomes.

• Agile Ways of Working: Experience with SAFe, Scrum, backlog management, and Agile product delivery. SAFe or PSPO certification is an advantage.

• Technical Understanding: Working knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably Azure), APIs, system integration, AI security, data privacy, and responsible AI principles.

Personal attributes

• Composed, able to stay calm and poised in stressful, difficult, or ambiguous situations.

• Affiliative, with preference for aligning with a larger team or organization working towards a common goal.

• Sociable, with natural inclination to engage with and seek interaction with others.

• Influential, with the ability to motivate and persuade others.

Ready for the next move?

If you are passionate about this position to work with the product development team and want to join a dynamic team that is making a difference for Volvo Groups different business units, we encourage you to apply.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Hiring Manager - Balamurugan E (balamurugan.e@volvo.com)

We look forward to receiving your application! The final date to apply is November 5.

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Who we are and what we believe in

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. ​We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. ​We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations (DTO) is a new division. The organizational set up is structured around domains, digital products with functions for digital excellence to deliver outstanding customer experience.

Joining the new DTO division means being part of a fast-moving digital product-oriented organization where teams truly own what they build from idea to delivery. In DTO, we work in agile, cross-functional teams, mastering the latest technology, and creating outstanding digital experiences that make a real difference for our colleagues and Volvo Group customers around the world. We put people first and build our culture on trust, passion, customer success, change, and performance. If you want to grow, collaborate across functions and entities, and help shape the future of digital products within Volvo Group, DTO is a great place to be.

In some countries and for specific positions within Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations, background checks may be required, in accordance with local laws & regulations. If this is applicable to the role you have applied for, you will be informed.