Product Owner, Simulation Platform

KONE; Hyvinkää; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

KONE is seeking a Product Owner for its Simulation Platform in Hyvinkää to lead vision, roadmap, and lifecycle across engineering, IT, and vendor teams. You will deliver reliable, scalable simulation capabilities and drive adoption through structured guidance and governance.

You will coordinate platform improvements, data governance, licenses, and releases while collaborating with global teams in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or related field.
• 4–6 years of product ownership, management, or lifecycle experience with simulation platforms or engineering apps.
• Experience with engineering simulation workflows and digital twins is a plus.
• Ability to define a vision, manage a backlog, and guide delivery from discovery through adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the platform vision, roadmap, backlog, and lifecycle plan.
• Prioritize demand based on business value, user impact, cost, risk, dependencies, and feasibility.
• Translate needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and release goals.
• Guide work from discovery through validation, release, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee platform performance, integrations, upgrades, and compliance with security standards.
• Manage simulation data, licenses, access rights, vendor services, and capacity.

Skills

English fluency

Stakeholder mgmt

Backlog prioritization

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/CS/IT or related

Tools

C#

.NET

SQL

APIs

Job description

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI)

is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

Technology and innovation careers - KONE Corporation

We are now looking for a

Product Owner, Simulation Platform

to join our team in Hyvinkää, Finland. We work in a hybrid way mixing office and remote work, with a minimum of three office days per week. We are looking for an experienced professional to join us full-time.

Are you ready to shape the future of engineering simulation?

We are looking for a Product Owner to lead the vision, roadmap, lifecycle, and development of KONE’s Simulation Platform. You will connect engineering, simulation experts, IT, vendors, and development teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and valuable simulation capabilities.

This role combines product leadership, simulation-domain understanding, and technical judgement. Your scope includes roadmap planning, platform performance, simulation data, integrations, licenses, releases, support, adoption, and continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

• Own and communicate the platform vision, roadmap, backlog, and lifecycle plan
• Prioritize demand based on business value, user impact, cost, risk, dependencies, and feasibility
• Translate user and stakeholder needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and release goals
• Guide work from discovery through validation, release, adoption, and continuous improvement
• Oversee platform performance, integrations, upgrades, support, security, compliance, and technical debt
• Govern simulation data, licenses, access rights, vendor services, capacity, and spend
• Align engineering, simulation, IT, architecture, vendor, and business stakeholders on decisions and trade-offs
• Develop the key-user network and improve feedback, communication, guidance, training, and support

What You Bring

We are looking for a collaborative, outcome-oriented product professional who brings:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience
• 4–6 years of relevant experience in product ownership, product management, development, or lifecycle management of simulation platforms, engineering applications, or comparable technical services
• Practical understanding of engineering simulation workflows and digital simulation environments (e.g. digital twin, HIL, structural or system simulations)
• Ability to define a vision and roadmap, manage a backlog, prioritize competing needs, and guide delivery from discovery through adoption

Experience translating complex business and engineering needs into clear, testable -requirements

• Experience managing technical platforms, including integrations, releases, support, risk, and continuous improvement
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and structured problem-solving skills
• Ability to coordinate delivery across virtual and multicultural teams
• Fluent written and spoken English

Additional Advantages

• Experience with C#, .NET, SQL, APIs, scripting, automation, or simulation-data management
• Knowledge of agile delivery, service or vendor management, software licenses, platform architecture, observability, access control, or information security

For additional information

please contact Pekka Marttila (Product Manager, Design and Engineering Solutions) tel. [phone] on Thursday, August 27th 15-15:30 or Monday, August 31st 14:30-15 o’clock EET.

Want to join the #PeopleFlow?

If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge,

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html