Product Owner - Success Factor Compensation

IKEA; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA is seeking a Product Owner for the Total Rewards team in Bengaluru to shape and maintain the Total Rewards landscape, including Success Factors, Global View, Benefits, and in-house systems. You will own end-to-end product delivery, align capabilities with business needs, and collaborate with global stakeholders to drive adoption and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities include translating business needs into solutions, prioritizing backlogs, and ensuring data quality and effective

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of HR domain and HR processes and systems – SAP SuccessFactors, ADP Global View, Benefits, Variable Pay.
• Experience in data standardization — data models, consistency, and quality.
• Experience owning and communicating a product roadmap, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to identify gaps in data pipelines and translate them into clear use cases for engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — bridge business, data, and technology.
• 5–6 years of experience in a similar role within HR Tech and product-oriented environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall Total Rewards area end-to-end from a product perspective.
• Translate business needs into solutions, workflows, and improvements.
• Identify gaps between capabilities and business needs and define solutions.
• Consolidate needs into a product backlog with non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with global business organization, center of excellence, config- and engineering teams.
• Support planning, prioritization, and backlog work.
• Ensure structured and reliable data/process flows.
• Drive adoption by ensuring solutions are practical and user-friendly.
• Manage stakeholders proactively and ensure alignment.
• Continuously improve processes, usage, and quality.

Skills

HR domain knowledge

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Product roadmap ownership

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

ADP Global View

Jira

Job description

Are you passionate about Total Rewards and how it creates a comprehensive offer for co-workers? Do you enjoy understanding how systems, processes, and workflows connect end-to-end? Are you someone with a genuine interest in how to improve through a smart combination of technology and processes? If yes — keep reading, this might be your next role!

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our Total Rewards team. You will play a key role in shaping and maintaining our Total Rewards area.

We believe you bring:

• Strong knowledge of HR domain and HR processes and systems – SAP SuccessFactors, ADP Global View, Benefits, Variable Pay
• Experience in data standardization — data models, consistency, and quality
• Experience owning and communicating a product roadmap, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• The ability to identify gaps in data pipelines and translate them into clear use cases for engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — you can bridge business, data, and technology
• 5–6 years of experience in a similar role within HR Tech and product-oriented environments Proven experience in collaboration driven outcome Strong communication and visualization skills

A day in your life with us

As a Product Owner in the Total Rewards team, you will play a key role in ensuring that our products across the Total Rewards landscape (Success Factor, Global View, Benefit, as well as in-house built systems) delivers value to the business and supports efficient, data-driven decision-making.

You will take ownership of the area, continuously improving it by aligning capabilities with business needs. You will work hands-on with roadmap tools and jira, ensuring solutions support how we actually operate.

You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the bigger platform area, ensuring alignment and driving adoption.

This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, where your work directly impacts our many co-workers.

This means that you will:

• Own the overall Total Rewards area end-to-end in a product perspective
• Translate business needs into solutions, workflows, and improvements
• Identify gaps between capabilities and business needs, and define solutions
• Work with various needs, requests and non-functional requirements and consolidate into a product backlog
• Collaborate with our global business organization, center of excellence as well as our config- and engineering teams
• Support planning, prioritization, and backlog work
• Ensure structured and reliable data/process flows
• Drive adoption by ensuring solutions are practical and user-friendly
• Manage stakeholders proactively and ensure alignment
• Continuously improve processes, usage, and quality

Together as a Team

You will work in Group Function Digital Area. The Digital Area – Group Functions is a new area built to strengthen digital partnership and delivery across all Group Functions and Global Business Operations (GBO). We develop and deliver digital capabilities across key areas like Finance, People & Culture, Procurement, Legal, Business Risk & Compliance, Communications, Real Estate, Business Steering in Ingka's global organization.

You will be part of a team that is leading the Total Rewards digital solutions — with a clear vision: to bring our Total Rewards solutions to our many co-workers.

We are a team that believes in:

• Being data driven in our approach and decisions
• Collaborate between people and teams in a pragmatic and open way
• Continuously learn and improve – the landscape is evolving and so are we
• Transparency - we communicate our roadmap clearly and hold ourselves accountable to it
• IKEA has long been a global leader in home furnishing. We are proud of our vision to improve the everyday life of the many people. But our industry is quickly changing, and we need to adapt to stay competitive.
• We see so many opportunities for what we can accomplish and have the ambition to be a world-class team. At the same time, we believe that our work is not just about building models, but also about learning and having fun together