Product Manager for Collaboration Tools

The Digital Workplace unit is responsible for technical development and management regarding the client platform, technical user equipment, and ensuring that the authority has a modern, efficient, and user-friendly collaboration platform that supports our hybrid working method.

Together, we get Sweden to work. Do you want to be one of us?

Section's Mission

The product Collaborate is in the Collaboration Tools section and is responsible for offering modern, user-friendly, efficient, and secure collaboration tools for employees at the Employment Agency. These tools should primarily meet internal collaboration needs but can also be used externally if there are no other tools that should be prioritized for certain targeted/deepened collaborations.

Job Description

• Drive change and transformation while communicating the product's vision, goals, and strategy
• Work based on agile methodologies
• Develop a product plan with prioritized effects/benefits and delivery strategy
• In dialogue with the budget-responsible manager, make forecasts, follow-ups, and financial analysis
• Main responsibility for the product's entire delivery including operation, development, and lifecycle management
• Ensure that the product complies with regulations, laws, and directives. Responsible for identifying challenges, conducting improvement work, and coordinating with other products, building blocks, and other parts of the organization that have dependencies with the product
• Follow-up on SLAs for all IT support related to the product
• Decide on the handling and possible escalation of incidents
• Continuously monitor benefits and user experience within the product
• Ensure forums for dialogue and collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Responsible for ensuring that implementation and change management related to the product are carried out

Who Are We Looking For?

You are a driven and goal-oriented person who takes initiative, solves problems, and thrives on challenges. We see that you have an IT technical background and enjoy being in the spotlight and leading others. You think both short-term and long-term and turn ideas into reality. With outstanding communication skills in both spoken and written form, you create engagement and get the team moving towards common goals.

You always put the user experience at the center and make decisions based on data. You work strategically, proactively, and value good collaboration. Together with the team, you share knowledge, listen, support, and contribute to a safe and responsible culture.

Great importance will be placed on personal suitability for the role.

Our Offer

The position is a permanent full-time employment that may begin with a six-month probationary period. The place of employment is Solna.

Basic Requirements for the Position

• Relevant university education in IT or equivalent work experience that the employer assesses as equivalent
• Experience in the implementation, launch, and/or operation of collaboration tools
• Experience leading cross-functional teams within IT
• At least 3 years of experience working in IT in a large and complex organization
• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English

Other Qualifications for the Position

• Experience in driving business-related IT projects or development initiatives from initiation to implementation and delivery
• Knowledge to administer cloud-based services, M365, SharePoint on-prem, SAAS solutions, Teams, etc.
• Experience working in a government agency, including knowledge of legislation and regulations regarding information security such as OSL, GDPR, and data transfer to third countries
• Experience in procuring IT services
• Experience working with agile tools such as Jira and Confluence

The state value base guides us in our daily work. As an employee with us, you are expected to work fairly, impartially, and with high integrity, and contribute to maintaining and strengthening trust in our authority.

Application

Does this sound like a position for you? Welcome with your application by 2026-01-16.

Attach your CV specifying years, months, and job responsibilities for each employment, as well as certificates that support the requirements for education and/or work experience in your application. It is important that you answer the selection questions in detail and truthfully, so that we can get a clear picture of your experience. If the requested information is not provided, you risk being excluded from the selection. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

During the recruitment process, selection tests may occur. We will keep you informed throughout the recruitment process.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the recruitment partner named in the advertisement for assistance in submitting your application. We actively work to be an authority free from discrimination. It is important for us that all skills are utilized, and we welcome all applicants. We view positively if you have knowledge of any of our national minority languages.

Welcome to the job that gets Sweden to work! Here you work on the government's mission for a labor market that helps people move forward. We free up opportunities for job seekers to find employment and for employers to find their next employee. To achieve this goal, we need to collaborate, within the authority but also with various external actors across the country. Together we drive change, develop new working methods, and create solutions that allow Sweden to continue moving forward.