Product Owner for R&D Validation
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Västerås
Northvolt is now looking for a Product Owner to help steering the data automatisation process in our growing validation team in Västerås. This is your chance to contribute to the development of the world's greenest and most sustainable Li-ion battery cell by shaping the validation data flow.
The Validation team is working directly with customer projects and cell development to ensure the excellent performance & safety of Northvolt's products – batteries. Increasing amount of test demands generate huge amounts of data, which needs to be stored, processed, visualised, and summarised in an efficient way.
As a Product Owner in the validation team, you have the key objective of driving the development of products for ensuring an efficient data management workflow within our testing facilities.
You will be responsible for defining problem statements, gathering requirements, identifying opportunities, and prioritising activities. The product owner represents the voice of the customer and provides guidance to the team in terms of clarity and focus while ensuring products' strategy and vision. You are responsible for the “what” and “why” and work closely with the teams who are responsible for the “how”.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with users and clients to identify/understand and anticipate needs, and translated into product requirements
- Create, oversee, and adapt activities within the products roadmap
- Be the contact person regarding information on features, requirements, training, and timelines
- Manage and prioritise backlog activities based on changing requirements and expectations
- Communicate data strategy and existing/future capabilities of products within the validation data life cycle
Ideally, you like to work and communicate with colleagues from various backgrounds. You have an eye for detail, while at the same time keeping the larger picture in sight. You are organised, pragmatic and keep an overview when working on different tasks. You are a curious, passionate life-long learner, who takes ownership and is eager to collaborate to improve the ways of data handling.
Northvolt is an equal opportunity employer. We're a diverse group of individuals, united by a common mission. We offer you an open and welcoming atmosphere where we win as a team – and fail as a team. For us it’s important to look at your skills and potential, please refrain from including your picture and age with your application to help us with this.
Apply with an English CV and your complete LinkedIn profile.
Full-time employment, fixed salary.
The planned starting date is ASAP.
Work with great people
Skills & Requirements
We believe that you have:
- Previous working experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Technical Project Manager
- Previous working experience in the domain of software/data science/engineering
- Good communication skills. You can communicate fluently and humbly (in English) with all types of different humans choosing effective methods based on context, audience, and purpose.
Bonus points for:
- Experience working with systems such as ERP, MES or PLM
- Knowledge in data storage, processing and computing technologies
- Fluency in other languages (Korean, Swedish, German)
- Experience in multicultural, start-up environment
Great Place to Work
World leading technique
Top specialists as team peers
International environment
Fast paced & entrepreneurial culture
Warrant program
Wellness grant
About the company
Northvolt makes green batteries for a blue planet. Affordable cells and high-quality battery systems. All manufactured with a record-low carbon footprint. Purposely built to provide Europe with the opportunity to switch to renewable energy – efficiently and entirely.
To accomplish this, we do things differently. We design, manufacture, and recycle everything under one roof. We even build our own factories. All this is incredibly challenging and requires us to think in unconventional ways. We’re constantly experimenting, learning and adapting to make batteries so great – they will one day make oil history.
Northvolt is growing fast. We’re staffing our international office in Stockholm, our R&D facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, as well as our Gdansk facility for production of battery systems. We're also hiring for our gigafactory Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå, Sweden. We want to work with smart individuals from all disciplines. Strong individuals that truly want to make a positive impact on the future. Those of us already on board share a passion for our mission. We’re prepared to work hard in pursuit of excellence. We enjoy the ride and our main drive is to make a difference for real. As a team, we’re dedicated to thinking new, working hard and having fun.
Ana Fonseca | Contact Person
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