Senior UX Designer - Volvo Group Connected Solutions

Job description

We are dedicated to leading the transition towards efficient, fossil-free, and safe means of transport. True progress happens when we connect talented individuals, as it’s through our collective efforts we shape the world we all aspire to live in.

 

Are you interested in joining a global organization at the forefront of developing Volvo Group’s connected services and solutions? For us, “connected for efficiency, sustainability, and safety” isn’t just a slogan—it’s our core purpose. 

 

At Volvo Group Connected Solutions, we believe that connectivity is the key to driving meaningful change. By leveraging immense amounts of data, we are pushing the boundaries of what connectivity can achieve in an industry that is continuously transforming.
 

This Is Us, Your New Colleagues.

Consumer Services at Volvo Group Connected Solutions is responsible for the end user services, from idea to development and operation. Together with our partners and customers we create value through fantastic user experience and business enhancing services and products.

 

We are now looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our UX Team and to take part in our exiting journey ahead. We are a collaborative team of more than 30 highly skilled designers with an ambitious target to create world class user experience for our digital products. Our designers play a key role in all our customers facing developments providing design competence to the product teams and work in close collaboration with product owner, BA, developers and stakeholders.

 

What Role is It?

 

In this role you will bring your design skills and competence to one of our product teams. You will champion the users and understand how to bring business impact in all phases of the product management cycle from context and problem framing to the delivery of meaningful solutions. Together with the team you will drive design from research, early-stage conceptual design all the way through final delivery, launch, evaluation and continuous improvements. You will also;

 

·  Advocate for our end-users by gaining a deep understanding of their work and the challenges they face by utilizing quantitative and qualitative research to generate meaningful insights that will drive creative concepts.
·  Facilitate workshops in partnership with our stakeholders and product team to collect knowledge, generate new ideas, and design solutions.
·  Translate concepts into user flows, designs in Figma, and rapid prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces, leading to intuitive user experiences.
·  Apply your findings to create detailed UI designs for the product and development team.
·  Bring your passion and your specific talents inside the UX Team to improve our design way of working and best practices and outside to guide and coach other team members to uplift their design thinking capabilities.

Who We Believe You Are.

 

·  You have a strong customer and user focus. You are driven by curiosity and passionate about user-centered experience design.
·  You are keen to identify business goals and value to design the right things always keeping in mind the compatibility with technical requirements and dependencies.
·  You are an innovative problem solver and a collaborative team player.
·  You are self-driven and comfortable taking the lead in discussions and workshops, with energy and drive and a “can-do” attitude.
·  You have experience in graphic/visual design, usability research & analysis, and designing complex user workflows.
·  You know your way in Figma and can deliver high quality UX and UI Design.
·  You have experience of working with design systems and understand code, front-end development and its relationship to design.
·  You have a minimum BA/MSc or equivalent degree in Interaction Design or a related design discipline, and between +3 years of industry design experience.
·  You have great communication and presentation skills.
·  You have a portfolio that shows your skills in creating impact with design.

 

What Can We Offer You?

 

You will be part of a team that creates great results through awesome people, strong relationships and a high-performance culture. We want to set a new standard for user experience, speed to market and customer value. We will do this through modern leadership, people in focus and a true passion to really make a difference. We who work in this team have a lot of fun, are great collaborators and we all consider ourselves as leaders of our work and owners of our results.

 

Our main hub and headquarters are in Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg, a vibrant area that lives and breathes new technology like IoT, autonomous driving, electro mobility and digitalization.

 

Welcome to the heart of connectivity at Volvo Group Connected Solutions!

How to apply and what to consider

You live in or close by to Gothenburg and can be at the office a couple of days a week. You have a valid work permit for Sweden.

 

Please include a CV and a cover letter in your application.

 

Applications without a portfolio won’t be considered – make sure to include it either as an attachment or as a link.

 

Want to know more? Contact us!

Anders Westman – UX & Design Manager – anders.westman@volvo.com

Carin Larsson – UX Design Lead – carin.larsson@volvo.com

 

We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail. 

 

Who we are and what we believe in 
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.

 

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group . Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities. 

 

At Volvo Group Connected Solutions we drive transportation forward through connectivity. Our services and solutions are the key to a connected and more productive infrastructure, to ensure safer transport and reduced carbon emissions. By leveraging massive amounts of data from our customers connected assets, we are leading the way in a rapidly changing industry.

Job Category:  Product Design

Organization:  Connected Solutions

Travel Required:  Occasional Travel

Requisition ID:  15407