Product Owner Core Digital Infrastructure, Group Digital

Who you are

• Are you passionate about shaping digital products for better business value and success through consumer centricity and product management practices within the area of Core Digital Infrastructure?

• As a Product Owner of Core Digital Infrastructure (CDI) with focus on Compute, Network & Application Hosting you are responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering Enterprise Infrastructure & DB as a platform offering across the organization.

• You are a strong advocate of simplicity and consumer insights, making sure that our business applications have a great friction-free application hosting experience.

• You thrive in cross-functional collaboration with consumers, engineering, service delivery, and operations to ensure cohesive management across the value stream. With a mindset for continuous improvement, you drive automation, efficiency, and simple self-service solutions.

• You share our IKEA values and lead inclusively - empowering teams, fostering learning, and building trust through transparent communication.

THE JOURNEY WE ARE ON

• Core Digital Infrastructure is a vital part of Ingka Group developing and maintaining digital application hosting platforms for IKEA. Application runtime, secure data storage and seamless connection through self-service is key for our digital business landscape.

Your responsibilities

• Co-lead with the Product Manager to set a clear and tangible product strategy for the assigned product(s), ensuring alignment with Engineering Managers and securing that delivery outcomes meet objectives and consumer needs.
• Continuously benchmark against industry standards to understand and meet consumer needs, ensuring that the product team(s) are aligned and driving toward those expectations.
• Align with cross-functional teams within the domain to maximize the overall impact of the product(s).
• Manage different perspectives and balance diverse viewpoints to meet business objectives, fostering collaboration and “One team” mindset and build strong partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Communicate the product vision and strategy effectively to ensure the team(s) are driving the product(s) in the intended strategic direction.
• Actively research consumer needs and apply the resulting insights.

Experience and qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure platform management in large enterprise environments and experience in modern infrastructure design, modern hosting architecture, data platforms and network.
• 5+ years of progressive and diverse experience in digital product development with proven track record of delivering products that provide substantial value.
• Proven experience of working with iterative, agile product development teams in complex global organisations and possessing a good knowledge of agile/scrum and System/Software Engineering working setup, including key events and artefacts.
• Proven track record of delivering and launching digital products, services, or projects within a complex, cross-functional environment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across service areas and leverage from others experience.
• Ability to engage constructively with consumers, engineers, and business leaders to secure collaboration.
• Experience of facilitating the process for taking the team from uncertainty / ambiguity to clear and concrete problems to address.
• Educational background in Information Technology or Computer Science (preferred).