Product Owner to Kollmorgen

Are you open for a position as Product Owner in a global high-tech product company? With us you will get the opportunity to work in the expanding Mobile Robot market that is doing rapid technological leaps!

About the position

The position as Product Owner belongs to the Product Management team where you, in a SAFe-environment, will collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers and UX-Designers. Together with them and other stakeholders such as Sales, customers and users, you seek to understand customer and business needs and to enhance product value. The majority of the time you will however be working close with software engineers, hardware engineers, system architects and software quality assurance engineers.

As a Product Owner, you will break down features to user stories and prioritize and maintain the team’s backlog. You will also accept or reject completion of user stories. It is important to align to company strategy and the vision for the entire product portfolio. Furthermore, it is critical to produce customer value, which needs to be done by balancing new feature development with software architectural work for sustainable quality. You focus on product value while the team is responsible for getting the technical details right. You make your teamwork visible and transparent to the rest of the company.

The overall aim is to make sure that Kollmorgen continues to create successful products, considering business, technology and user experience. The technology within sensors and communication evolves fast and so does the overall technique within automation and Automated Gudied Vehicles (AGVs) which makes it important that you as a part of your work keep yourself up to date about what happens within our industry.

The culture among your colleagues is engaged and if you’d like, you will also be able to contribute in the practical development of new products from time to time!

We are looking for you

who have some experience from working as a Product Owner in an agile development team. Your background can be either commercial or technical, but you do have experience of working with electronic hardware products. It is important that you can take on a broader perspective rather than at a deeper level of detail.

We expect you to understand and have experience of working in modern product development methods such as Scrum and/or SAFe. You have a can-do attitude and are very good at communicating to be able to get your message across with different stakeholders within the organization.

Must have
To be successful in this role you need to have:

- Work experience as a Product Owner.
- Experience working with electronic hardware products.
- Experience in a SAFe and/or Scrum environment.
- An interest in automation technology.

Meritorious

It is a plus if you have experience in:

- Working with sensors and/or controllers.
- Embedded Software.
- Autonomous Vehicle development.
- Being the Product Owner for two teams at the same time.

About us

Kollmorgen is a global company which develops motion control and Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems and works with customers in many different industries all over the world.

Kollmorgen Automation is a part of Kollmorgen and we have our Swedish headquarter in Mölndal. The target is to provide world leading technology for the rapidly growing market of AGVs and Mobile Robots. The about 100 employees are working with product development, professional services, sales, marketing and finance.

Some of the good things that we offer
Innovation Days every twelve weeks - a 24-hour event for the whole company to dig deeper, explore new areas and solve problems! 💡
Gym at the office filled with machines for strength and fitness that is always open and free to use for all our employees 👟
Free parking outside our office 🚗
Noise cancelling headphones and home office equipment (office chair, screens etc) 🎧
Career opportunities within the company - we have employees who have worked with us for many years in different roles and departments 🚀
Day of Caring - every year we take one day to clean the west coast beaches together 🗑️
6 weeks’ vacation! ☀️❄️
Work time reduction - it gives you around 7 extra days off per year
Collective agreement, occupational pension, wellness allowance

Apart from above, Kollmorgen is characterized by an entrepreneurial spirit where you get the opportunity to carry out your ideas with the help of the company's experts.

We focus on engagement and personal development as essential tools for our success. We give you the opportunity to work in an open environment where ideas and thoughts are lifted freely among colleagues.

Additional information
Full-time employment. 📍 Based in Mölndal, Sweden. We recruit based on our values and for us it is important that you continuously want do develop yourself together with us!

Welcome with your application!

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