Data Scientist

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What’s in it for you?
In the Consumer Digital team, we work in customer-centric product teams to build products that make owning a car better. We work on products and platforms such as Volvo On Call, Connected Car Cloud Platform, Service Booking, Connected Safety, Customer Care Chat, Volvo ID, over-the-air updates, car connectivity, and APIs for building new innovative services.

The team is located in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Lund, Sweden, and we also have teams in the US and in China. Many of the people you will be working with have experience from start-ups and global tech companies such as Spotify, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, Tradera, Klarna, and King.

We are now looking for data scientists to join the Data Science & Strategy Chapter. You will be working with a group of skilled data engineers and data scientists who are tasked with empowering their colleagues with data-driven decisions and developing data-powered products.

What you’ll do
You’ll support our product teams’ advanced analytics needs, inform business strategy through data-driven insights and build innovative products with data and machine learning. You are expected to understand complex business challenges, develop hypotheses, integrate internal and external data sets, analyze them and effectively communicate your findings to both a technical and non-technical audience. You will work in close collaboration with data engineers, product managers, developers and designers in the development of products and platforms.

You and your skills
We are looking for data scientists with excellent analytical skills and a good grasp of statistics, mathematical modeling, data visualization, and Machine Learning. We expect you to love Python, and have solid coding skills. Experience using cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS) is expected, as is working with databases and some flavor of SQL. Familiarity in (or a willingness to learn) the following is considered a plus: Docker, Kubernetes, git, Google Analytics, Power BI, geospatial analysis. Strong collaboration and communication skills are important. We are open to both entry-level and more senior candidates.

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position please contact Ronnie Jansson at [email protected]. For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter, Ellinor Magnusson at [email protected]. We want your application at the latest March 13th, 2020. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted.