Digital Product Leader

, you will lead the development and implementation of viable, valuable, feasible, and desirable digital products. You will be accountable for the product backlog (build, edit, and maintain) and prioritization, for solution requirements through user stories to meet business needs and user experience. You will create and communicate a product vision and act as the bridge between our business partners and product teams where you'll collaborate closely with your colleagues in the business, UX designers and Solution Architects to prioritize the product backlog and define OKRs (Objectives & Key Results). You'll work alongside your colleagues to ensure UX, data and technology is connected. While representing the needs of the IKEA stakeholder community, you'll be the voice of our users, ensuring that our efforts consistently deliver maximum value to the business. The job implies responsibilities for goal setting, roadmap and vision, marketing, selling, budget and services and support for delivering great customer satisfaction. The key job assignments are

• Leading the product team
• Defining how to deliver the wished business value
• Technical development and operations in collaboration with engineering and IT operations
• Build product and services that customers love
• Through our culture and values lead by example and influence others to become high performing

You are the type of person that can manage to see the big picture and the details. You have strong collaboration and communication skills, that builds trust and partnership with your stakeholders, to reach our common goals. You inspire, listen and give direction to the team, partners, and stakeholders. You thrive in complex environments, you see them as an opportunity to clarify and simplify. You are curious and open-minded, naturally building bridges between teams. To be successful in this role, the following knowledge, skills and experiences would be valuable:

• Solid software Product Management experience leading a cross-functional team
• Strong understanding of marketing and/or content management technologies
• Strong ability to create and communicate a product vision, mission and product strategy
• Strong ability to lead, inspire, and empower team members while delivering with speed and employing an agile approach to development, both internally and externally. Serve as an ambassador for agile practices and product culture within your team and across transversal teams.
• Strong ability to communicate and create trustful relationships in collaborative processes as well as visualizing concepts and ideas
• Ability to handle complexity and solve problems through simplicity
• Passionate about technology and trends that create better solutions and bring business and user value
• High entrepreneurial drive: Stretching boundaries, challenging what already exists, always striving to develop a better digital landscape
• Previous experience in tech companies and/or retail will give you an extra edge