Hej future leaders,

Do you believe old digital products can be transformed into strategic assets for the future?

Once upon a time, there was a powerful digital product, complex, essential, and built years ago. It still drives IKEA’s value chain today, but as we move toward a modern engineering landscape, it presents both a challenge and an opportunity. How do we preserve its value while transforming its structure and compatibility for the future?

Your assignment

This assignment invites you (1-3 participants) to dive deep into the complex but critical digital product that has supported IKEA’s value chain for years. You’ll explore its current user experience and business logic, map workflows, pain points, and dependencies, and help define a blueprint for transferring the solution into a modern framework. Based on this exercise, the case will explore how IKEA can approach adult legacy digital products and build ways of working and recommendations for future projects with the same challenges.

Beyond this, you’ll contribute to shaping IKEA’s approach to legacy digital products - creating recommendations and ways of working that will guide future modernization projects across our digital portfolio.

• Analyze the current state – explore workflows, user journeys, pain points, and technical dependencies for the digital solution.
• Document complexity – capture business logic and UX patterns to create clarity in a complex system.
• Design the future – help define a blueprint for transitioning the solution into a modern framework.
• Shape IKEA’s approach – develop recommendations and principles for handling legacy systems across the digital portfolio.
• Collaborate widely – work with stakeholders across Inter IKEA Group functions and companies to align priorities and share learnings.

You will meet different digital experts across IKEA, receive support through coaching, access the various product teams, and get guidance on IKEA’s modernization strategy - all while feeling fully supported throughout the journey.

What you’ll bring to the table

We’re looking for curious, structured, and analytical minds, UX enthusiasts or specialists who loves creating structure in complexity.

• You’re patient and detail-oriented, but also able to zoom out and see the bigger picture
• You’re comfortable collaborating across functions and documenting user journeys clearly
• You can visualize complex logic in a way that makes sense to others

Experience with UX mapping or service design is important - but a learning mindset and curiosity matters most!

What’s in it for you

This assignment will help you build capabilities that are highly relevant for the future:

• Collaboration across functions – work with diverse stakeholders across Inter IKEA Group
• Digital transformation insights – understand and define the challenges and opportunities of legacy modernization
• UX mapping & visualization – gain experience in analyzing and visualizing complex user journeys and system logic
• Systems thinking – learn how enterprise-level digital products fit into a global ecosystem
• Be part of the Next Generation Leader community – expand your network and grow your influence

Please note that this is a development programme for co-workers under 35 years, working within Inter IKEA Group.

Last day of application: 14th November

Number of openings: 1-3

20% of time commitments for 9 months

No travels required

Questions? Please connect with Igor Popov

After you've sent in your application & we've reviewed it, you will receive an email to complete the next step of the process - The video interview, where you record yourself answering questions from the assignment leader. You will see the questions once you’ve started the video interview. Don’t worry – you will have unlimited tries and times to think about your answer. 

During the interview you will get to answer the following questions:

1. What motivates you to apply for the Next Generation Leaders Programme?
2. What kind of feedback have you received from your manager or colleagues, and how has it influenced your development?
3. Why would you want to explore the complex adult legacy systems?
4. How would you approach a knowledge bottleneck where only one person knows everything about solution?
5. What is leadership for you?

 Before you apply: 

- Perform the self-evaluation found on the bottom of the IKEA Next generation leaders programme
- Align with your manager and make sure that you are able to use 30% of your time to the Next Generation Leaders Programme (20% within the assignment + 10% for the learning modules)
- Don't forget to gather feedback from your manager & colleagues!  

We are truly looking forward to receiving your application! 

Please contact: [email protected] if any questions regarding the selection process.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the selection process, just let us know.  

Be yourself, a future leader, and more!

Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co-worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow.