IKEA Communications AB

Here it is. Your chance to bring your passion for business and technology to the most influential small town in the world.

Right now we're looking for a Standards Specialist. Someone who acts as a connection between IKEA needs and possible technical standards available on the market. That someone who can evaluate and explore customer experience technology into possible support solutions.

As a Standard Specialist, you will drive standardization work within and outside IKEA, doing strategic forecasts for technology. You will also work with early Digital IPR and you will be a contact person for IKEA towards technology universities in the field of Computer graphics software and Hardware.

In the role you will:

• Establish standards for the development and use of digital applications or programming interfaces across IKEA in work areas within media, graphics, information and communication technologies connected to IKEA pre/post sale services; and in alignment with existing open source standardizations from organizations such as the Khronos Group, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the International Communication Institute (ITU), among others.
• Explore possible new/future digital technologies, foresee business opportunities and applications across IKEA, as well as the strategic partnerships that would support in positioning IKEA at the forefront of these developments.
• Create targeted forecasting presentations for IKEA stakeholders to facilitate decision making, give a better strategic understanding of the global digital landscape, the opportunities it offers, its possible implications in consumer behaviour, production/communication standards and pre/post sales drivers.
• Align strategic 3rd party partners with the current and forecasted landscape to enable faster iteration, and speed of deliverables.
• Collaborate with IKEA Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) department to set a strategy and execution of longer-term patent goals and deliverables.
• Support the IPR department with threat analysis, highlight problem areas and in filing business critical patents of current and future, mid/long-term pre/post sales service offering from IKEA.
• Promote IKEA at various industry events, forums or tech conferences.
• Contribute to the knowledge transfer and technical expertise in projects.
• Build a network of external partners and internal stakeholders.

To be successful in this role, you need:

• 4+ years working experience in Computer Graphics industry or related area.
• Deep understanding of open standards set by groups such as Khronos, ETSY and ITU.
• Experience from standardization work within hardware and software computer graphics.
• Experience with handling early technical intellectual property rights (IPR) questions.
• Broad technical knowledge cross all disciplines within Information Technology.
• Experience in project planning, follow up and steering others according to agreed plans.
• Ability to handle multiple parallel projects in different levels of development.
• Risk analysis and scenario planning.
• Knowledge of IKEA business processes, creation & production ways of working
• Fluent in English both writing and speaking

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE POSITION WILL BE BASED IN ÄLMHULT, Sweden. We look forward to receiving your application (IN ENGLISH) as soon as you have decided that this could be something for you.

This position was posted 2018-08-28. We do not have an application deadline for this position. We take candidates into the recruitment process continuously and close the position down once we have found the right candidates.

If you have any questions for recruitment process please contact aorui.pu@ikea. com .We do not accept the applications sent by email.