Agile Product Owner

Role 2: Agile Product Owner Location: Gothenburg, Sweden About us:

• Software download and installation of Android firmware, applications, and updates with safe execution and rollback capabilities.
• Logging solutions that support troubleshooting, bug reporting, and data collection.
• Analytics services that help understand feature usage and user behavior while protecting privacy.

Your Mission As Agile Product Owner, you will maximize the value delivered by balancing stakeholder expectations, business priorities, platform strategy, technical sustainability, and customer needs. You will:

• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap
• Own and prioritize the team backlog based on business value, customer impact, risk, and technical dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with architects, developers, test engineers, release teams, and other product teams.
• Act as the primary interface between stakeholders and the development team.
• Translate business and platform needs into clear epics, features, and user stories.
• Drive continuous prioritization and scope decisions in an agile environment.
• Ensure alignment with vehicle platform strategies and software delivery roadmaps.
• Make trade-off decisions between new capabilities, technical debt reduction, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Follow product outcomes through data, KPIs, and customer feedback.
• Contribute to long-term platform evolution and strategic planning.

We Believe You Have

• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar leadership role in software development.
• Strong understanding of Agile ways of working (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, or equivalent).
• Experience working with software platform products, embedded systems, connected services, or large-scale software development.
• Strong hands-on technical experience of Android Automotive platform development.
• Ability to build trust and alignment across multiple stakeholders and organizations.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience managing complex backlogs and competing priorities.
• A data-driven mindset with a focus on delivering measurable value.

Meritorious Experience Experience with one or more of the following areas is considered a strong advantage:

• Over-the-air software updates (OTA)
• Connected vehicle ecosystems
• Telemetry and analytics platforms
• Logging, diagnostics, and observability solutions
• Cybersecurity and secure software deployment
• Embedded software development
• Cloud services and software lifecycle management

Who You Are You are a collaborative leader with good situational leadership skills. Who enjoys creating clarity in complex environments. You are equally comfortable discussing long-term product strategy with senior stakeholders and refining backlog items with engineers. You understand that great platform products are built through partnership, transparency, and continuous improvement. You are curious, pragmatic, and driven by delivering value through empowered teams. Note - Pls mail CV at smita-shree@hcltech.com