Do you want to contribute to a mission that impacts all of Sweden?

The Swedish Pensions Agency reaches over 8 million users and manages assets corresponding to up to 10% of Sweden's GDP.

Digital development is crucial for our success – and your contribution can make a real difference.

About the job

As a product owner, you lead and prioritize the team's work based on the needs and goals of the organization. You translate strategies into concrete activities, coordinate with other teams and stakeholders, and ensure that deliveries create real value for both users and the organization.

We work agilely with a SAFe-inspired approach, and you collaborate closely with other teams, architects, suppliers, and other key persons to drive development forward. You will lead the team in close collaboration with the team's Scrum Master.

The daily work will be characterized by a lot of change work. You help the team, as well as the surrounding organization, to move forward together in an open and goal-oriented manner.

Recurring tasks:

• Drive and prioritize the team's backlog based on the agency's strategies and goals in a manageable way.
• Participate in relevant internal and external networks, including product management and architecture forums.
• Manage dialogue with customers/stakeholders to gather, understand needs, and handle initiatives in the area.
• Be responsible for planning and roadmap based on different time horizons.
• Ensure operational processes for the area that the team is responsible for executing.
• Network and gather needs from the business and define the needs in Features with clear boundaries.
• Communicate status, plans, and changes to relevant parties clearly.
• Ensure and approve the team's delivery of value based on set delivery criteria.
• Follow up on the value and effect of the delivery and act on the results.
• Handle necessary administration and documentation and ensure compliance with the agency's guidelines and instructions for the area.
• Assist the train management in summarizing the budget for the team's work and responsibilities.
• Collaborate with the Scrum Master to reach and ensure that everyone understands the team's common goals.

Your profile

You are an experienced leader who can read people and situations. We need a communicative and collaborative leader who creates engagement and builds trust. At the same time, you are analytical and have the ability to navigate in a complex organization.

Since the team is technically specialized in the infrastructure platform, we prefer that you have good technical understanding and can engage with both technical and business-related issues, preferably within large organizations with complex system connections.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Good experience in the PO role and has worked within a larger agile organization.
• Is a people person who can collaborate very well and fits into our open culture.
• Good knowledge of technical environments and processes, preferably within infrastructure.
• Can make tough prioritizations but with a sense of change management.
• Very good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish.

Meritorious is also:

• Experience of working with complex system connections/large-scale environments.
• Experience of working with the SAFe framework.
• Experience of LOU (the Public Procurement Act).
• Background from government or public operations.
• Previous experience from working at the Swedish Pensions Agency.

It is not only what and how long you have done something that is most important, but what you are capable of doing.

To be successful in the role, we want you to:

• Work well with other people. Relate to them in a responsive and smooth manner. Listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts constructively.
• Lead, motivate, and empower others to effectively reach common goals. Create engagement and participation.
• Adapt easily to changing circumstances.
• Be outgoing and socially active in professional contexts. Create contacts and maintain relationships.
• See the big picture and take into account the larger perspective.

Your personal qualities are important to us as we value having a generous and open culture. In the selection process, we will place great emphasis on these.

We offer

A government assignment that is truly important! A workplace where we care about our employees having a good balance between work and leisure. We offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work partially from home. As a state employee, you also have good employment conditions and a benefits package with wellness, paid leave days, as well as good vacation and pension terms. Our office is centrally located in Hornstull, Stockholm.

You can read more about our benefits and what it is like to work with us here.

Good to know

The position is a permanent full-time employment, and we apply a 6-month probationary period.

The employment will be placed in a security class.

Your application

We work competence-based throughout the process and are committed to an inclusive, fair, objective, and candidate-friendly process. Therefore, we ask you to answer a number of selection questions instead of requesting a personal letter.

We may use psychological tests.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the recruiting manager who will assist you with your application.

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore we welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding advertising channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly ask for no further contact with media/advertising sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

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