Product Manager

Volvo Cars; Göteborg; On-site; SEK 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

Volvo Cars is seeking a forward-thinking Product Manager for their Data Platform team. This role is pivotal in shaping the data platform's capabilities, ensuring robust, user-centric solutions that drive business success. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical background and proven experience in product management, ready to collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to enhance the data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in data engineering and software development.
• Proven track record in Product Management, particularly in data-related roles.
• Experience with platform adoption strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the data platform.
• Prioritize development based on business impact and user experience.
• Oversee timelines and deliverables ensuring timely execution.

Skills

Advanced English communication

Data engineering

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Data architecture

Job description

Why look for a job when you can look for a purpose?

A job with purpose is more than just a job. After all, your next move determines your everyday life. So what about creating positive change? What about impacting your future and that of millions of others in ways you may never have imagined? Curious? We hope so.

Let's introduce ourselves

Our Data Platform is the backbone of the company's data-driven transformation. It provides shared infrastructure, tools, but also workflows, templates and golden paths to support everything from raw data ingestion to business intelligence and AI/ML. Built on modern technologies like Kubernetes, Snowflake, DBT, Kafka, and Backstage, the platform enables self-service data product development in line with data mesh principles.

The platform is designed to be cloud-agnostic, support multi-region deployments, and ensure secure, compliant, and scalable use of data across the enterprise. We adopt GitOps-principles and computational governance to make it scalable and create trust in the data in a streamlined fashion.

We are looking for a modern, forward-thinking Product Manager to join our Data Platform team. In this role, you’ll help define and deliver data platform capabilities that enable teams across the company to build, share, and consume trusted data products. This is a critical position for driving self-service, scalability, and efficiency in our data ecosystem.

You will collaborate closely with engineering teams , product managers and key stakeholders across business and tech to deliver offerings that make our platform robust, intuitive, and cloud-agnostic .

What you'll do

As a Product Manager for Data Platform, you will lead the charge in shaping and optimizing the usage of our data platform. Your role will be pivotal in creating a seamless and efficient data journey for our users. You will be working very close to your product manager-colleagues, who all cares for different offerings in our Data Platform, aligning the common vision, strategy and roadmap.

Next to you, you will also have an engineering team to collaborate with very closely.

In this role you will:

• Developing and executing a strategic vision for our data platform.
• Do collaborative product development: Apply empowered product teams, ensuring cross-functional collaboration with our users, engineering and data teams to deliver a user-centric data platform.
• Prioritize development based on business impact, user experience, and technical feasibility.
• Define and track KPIs that demonstrate platform value, adoption, and performance.
• Project management: Oversee timelines, deliverables, ensuring smooth execution and timely delivery of initiatives. Expertise in Agile methodologies and project management best practices is essential.
• Stakeholder management: Engage with key stakeholders across business domains to understand their needs and problems, prioritize features, and communicate progress and outcomes.
• Metrics and continuous improvement: Define product metrics and KPIs to measure platform adoption, usage, and success. Use data-driven insights to iterate on and improve platform offerings continuously.
  
• Leadership & Collaboration: Work closely with the Group Product Manager and your fellow Product Managers to ensure that the product roadmap is cohesive and aligned across all platform capabilities.
  
  

What you'll bring

You possess a strong technical background, including a deep understanding of data engineering, platform engineering and software development. Your ability to navigate complex technical challenges and provide innovative solutions will be essential.

Proven track record in Product Management, particularly in data-related roles. Your ability to define and execute product strategies will be critical in shaping our data platform's future.

Have a strategic vision for how data can drive business success. You should be able to align technical strategies with overarching business objectives.

Bring a forward-thinking and innovative mindset to the team. We're looking for someone who can drive technological advancements and explore new possibilities in the data space.

You also have

• Advanced English communication skills
• Experience working with highly visible projects in an international environment
• Knowledge or experience of both traditional and modern data engineering practices
• Experience with platform adoption strategies and internal developer platforms.
• Strong technical insights, with a deep understanding of data architecture, Data Mesh principles, and software development.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage complex technical initiatives.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

Please submit your application through our career page. Due to GDPR regulations, we’re unable to store or consider applications from other platforms. Make sure to submit your application in English.
Once your application is successfully submitted, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Applications are open until 1st of June 2025. We’re excited to get to know you!

Volvo Cars – driving change together

Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, so you can reach your fullest potential.

And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!