Arbetsbeskrivning

Company Description

The goal of Range experience is to make it easy for the many to design a better everyday life at home. We run and develop digital solutions used by customers and co-workers enabling them to design and visualize homes and home furnishing solutions for the entire IKEA range for all IKEA retailers. Part of our portfolio are planning solutions for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage solutions, Beds...Our next big step ahead will be to enable customers to design their full homes.

Our customers should experience an inspiring, fun, simple and rewarding planning journey based on their needs and preferences. Our co-workers and service partners should experience a fun, efficient and unbroken sales process.

The solutions and capabilities we develop are an integral part of the entire seamless buying and selling experience and a key contributor to converting visitors into happy customers and to engaging with our customers from the start. Utilizing data around and about our products to create more personalized experiences is an integral part of the work we do.

Range experience provides solutions to all IKEA retailers spanning over 50 markets worldwide and over 450 stores and IKEAs digital and physical channels. All solutions are made to help customers and co-workers in all customer meetings, from a mobile phone to the largest IKEA store in the world.

Job Description

In this recruitment round we are looking for several Digital product leaders who will work with digital products in our portfolio. Products to work with can be customer facing or more of enabling/ backend nature.

Being a Digital product leader in the Range experience team

As a Digital product leader you will be part of a great team and creating digital solutions that enable customers and co-workers to configure and combine home furnishing solutions and design any space and activity in their homes and businesses across all the full omni-experience.

You will lead a Product team in a continuous product discovery and enhancement to fulfill business and customer needs, and the work to establish the mission of a product and build the overall product area vision and roadmap, balancing needs from business, customer and technology perspectives. Exploring and utilizing different technologies and approaches is part of finding the best solution for the needs to solve. By that you contribute to a seamless customer and co-worker experience across all customer meeting points throughout the full product lifecycle.

You are the biggest fan of your product and feel and are accountable for the outcome and deliveries for your product in meeting business/ customer needs.

You will interact and collaborate with other Digital product leaders and teams and stakeholders across IKEA, franchisees and customers, to understand needs and synergies and based on this, define requirements and make decisions and trade-offs where needed to maximize business results and customer value.

You will manage the product backlog, scope and prioritize activities based on business direction and goals, business and customer impact and actively participate in planning to clarify features and user stories. Together with your team you define acceptance criteria and ‘definition of done’. Optimizing ways of working within your and across teams is always on your mind.

To be successful in this role

• You are passionate and curious about life at home and creating seamless and convenient experiences and really connect to the assignment of Range experience.
• You are passionate about creating and enhancing high performing, clever and easy to use solutions and working methods supporting co-workers when creating and developing the meeting with our customers.
• You have a great interest and proven track record in creating great solutions/ experiences for users and you understand how emerging technologies and trends can improve customer and co-worker experiences throughout the product lifecycle. You have a deep interest in and understanding for data around and about your product and use it to continuously improve.
• You are an experienced Product owner/ leader and bring extensive experience and knowledge in software development and are fully familiar with agile/ develops practices. You have a solid technology understanding, ideally have worked with 3D customer facing applications before.
• You are a strong leader with the ability to inspire and build the success of a product on the strength of and together with your full cross-functional team and interaction with peers and stakeholders for reaching the best results and contributing to efficiency and value across IKEAs value chain.
• You make mistakes sometimes that keep you evolving and learning as you are not afraid to find new ways to solve a challenging task together with your colleagues.
• You enjoy an agile and iterative, yet structured way of working and achieving results together with a and peers and stakeholders in a flexible environment, but also have a strong individual drive to deliver high quality results on time.
• Travelling based on business needs might be necessary.

Additional Information

This role is full-time (40 hours per week) and is currently based in Malmö, Sweden. From January 1st 2025 this role will be based in our Älmhult office. Your assignment will require presence in Älmhult and Malmö based on business needs.

Interested? Send us your CV, in English, by December 12th 2024. There will be some delays in the process during the summer vacation and interviews will start in mid-August.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs. At IKEA, we’re all on the same project.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.