We are now looking for technical Product Owners (PO) for our Cloud platform teams. We need your help in developing our enterprise scale self-service cloud platforms to enable an even faster value creation for the entire H&M Group. Platforms that support development and deliveries for more than 8 brands and 350+ product teams. If you would be excited to work both on strategic product vision as well as sprint goals and feature prioritization for either our Azure platform or Google Platform, this is the opportunity for you!  

You will be a part of our Cloud and Datacenter area in Business Tech and join a talented, cross-functional, multi-competent and diverse team of cloud architects, cloud engineers and software engineers in a fun, global multicloud environment. 

We have come far. We have been named best in class as Center for Cloud Enablement by Microsoft. We have presented our Cloud transformation journey and success stories on events like Microsoft Ignite, DevOps Enterprise Summit and Tech Days Sweden. According to several external reviews we are far ahead of most enterprises in cloud maturity. Given that and our scale, we frequently push the agendas of GCP and Azure. We interact with their engineers and product teams to support our needs. But we still see many challenges and opportunities ahead e.g., having recently started our multicloud journey.  

Responsibilities 

Your customers/users are mainly found in the 350+ product teams across the H&M Group. Your product spans from cloud security, cost management, driving cloud maturity, enabling cloud transitions, and doing automation. Automation allowing developers and others to get fast access to cloud and maintain it efficiently.   

As a Product Owner, you will take end-to-end ownership of the product with accountability for value delivered. You define the strategic vision for your product and create the product roadmap based on a deep understanding of the market / industry, and input from stakeholders across the company.  

You will: 

• Set ambitious and clear product mission and quarterly goals for the Cloud platform and translate these goals into a prioritized roadmap and team backlog that drive agreed KPIs 
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of market / industry landscape, staying up to date with Cloud vendors and services
• Establish and maintain relations and collaborations with comparable enterprises, also allowing benchmarking your Cloud platform against theirs
• Identify and interact with internal stakeholders and users e.g., POs, developers, management.  Gather & analyze qualitative and quantitative insights to adjust strategy and priorities
• Translate customer, stakeholder, and business needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for the product 
• Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles 
• Monitor and manage financial impact of decisions and priorities of the product team
• Interact with vendors (e.g. Azure/Google) for advice and for driving our interests and requests to implementation
• Responsible to define staffing needs for the team and drive recruitment together with HR 

We are looking for you who have: 

• Agile and product mindset 
• A degree in business and/or engineering 
• An ability to shift between the broad stokes with long term or overview perspective and paying attention to details and being highly analytical 
• Worked in a global context and managing stakeholders on both executive and operational levels
• Fully fluent in English, written and verbally
• We think maybe you are  
  •  Either an experienced PO/team lead/Product manager with a strong interest in cloud  
  • Or a seasoned Azure/GCP/AWS Cloud architect with experience building and maintaining Cloud platforms – and now with a drive to shift path towards product 

Who are you? 

Our mission is to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across the H&M group, therefore we believe you are flexible, curious and like to work in an environment that is not yet formalized with a lot of exciting visions ahead. You are a natural networker with good communication skills who enjoys growing long-term relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, which makes you great in collaboration with key stakeholders, always keeping customers and users at the heart of your focus. You are great at ensuring overall alignment, setting objectives & key results that your product will drive towards. At the same time as you identify, build, and manage strategic partnerships across products, working to manage dependencies in a fun environment!    

Who are we?    

As a team, we contribute to improve the speed to market, flexibility and scalability of all H&M Group tech products. We empower and enable product teams to deliver on our cloud strategy and transform our tech landscape by democratizing infrastructure, providing modern, scalable, and flexible self-service platforms and services. All to cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers and deliver technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.  

H&M Group is a family of brands with the desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable and circular way. Rapid technological development is transforming the fashion retail industry. We are seizing this opportunity to not only challenge ourselves, but the whole industry with the aim to be the most impactful ecosystem. We operate on a large scale across 74 markets. From AI to data-driven business development, user experience to engineering, we turn business challenges into innovative tech solutions – making H&M Group a global leader in combining tech, fashion, and design. 

What we offer!    

Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future. 

Additional information 

This is a full-time position with placement in Stockholm, Marievik. We will review and interview on-going, apply as soon as possible but no later than 23 of January 2022. You may be asked to perform aptitude tests in this process.  Due to the upcoming Christmas holidays, response times may be longer than usual. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Jakob Knutsson, at jakob.knutsson@hm.com, and about the recruitment process, please contact Helena Larbo, at Helena.larbo@hm.com.

We are looking forward to your application!