Who you are
Are you passionate about compensation and how it creates a comprehensive offer for co-workers? Do you enjoy understanding how systems, processes, and workflows connect end-to-end? Are you someone with a genuine interest in how to improve through a smart combination of technology and processes? If yes — keep reading, this might be your next role!
We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to join our People Platform You will play a key role in shaping and maintaining our People Platform area.
We believe you bring:
- Has strong experience (8-10yrs) in integration product ownership or architecture — ideally within an HR technology or enterprise platform environment
- Has worked across platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors, Avature, OpenText, or ServiceNow and understands how they connect and interact
- Understands integration patterns and middleware — familiar with APIs, event-driven architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, and tools such as Astronomer, DBT, Fast API, or similar
- Has a solid grasp of API governance, integration standards, and enterprise architecture principles
- Naturally connects strategy to execution — able to work at both architectural and delivery levels
- Is curious and forward-looking — translating AI, automation, and integration trends into actionable roadmap decisions
- Thrives in cross-functional environments — managing dependencies across engineering, architecture, and business teams
- Communicates complex data and integration concepts clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders
A day in your life with us
As a Senior Product Owner, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of our People Platform — ensuring reliable, connected, and intelligent data flows across our HR technology ecosystem. This includes ownership of integrations, middleware, pipelines, and reporting that underpin our People & Culture platforms.
This role is for someone who understands integrations deeply — how it moves, how it's governed, and how it creates value across an organisation. This means that you will:
- Define and own the multi-year data platform roadmap — covering integrations, middleware, system sources, pipelines, and reporting across the HR technology landscape
- Define and own the integration roadmap across the People platform ecosystem — covering middleware, APIs, data pipelines, and system-to-system connections
- Stay close to emerging integration technologies, tools, and market trends — translating them into practical direction
- Lead planning and prioritisation — managing cross-platform dependencies across SuccessFactors, Avature, OpenText, ServiceNow, and adjacent systems
- Define and govern integration standards, API frameworks, and middleware patterns across the People platform landscape
- Translate complex business and technical needs into a clear, well-structured backlog using roadmap tools and Jira
- Drive stakeholder alignment across engineering, architecture, business, and platform teams
- Act as a trusted advisor on integration architecture, technical trade-offs, and platform connectivity decisions
- Ensure reliability, performance, and governance across all integration flows and middleware components
- Continuously improve integration quality, observability, and operational efficiency
Together as a team
You will work in Group Function Digital Area. The Digital Area – Group Functions is a new area built to strengthen digital partnership and delivery across all Group Functions and Global Business Operations (GBO). We develop and deliver digital capabilities across key areas like Finance, People & Culture, Procurement, Legal, Business Risk & Compliance, Communications, Real Estate, Business Steering in Ingka's global organisation.
You will be part of a team driving the future of People Platform solutions - with a clear vision to deliver seamless, human-centred HCM processes and experiences for our co-workers across IKEA.
We are a team that:
- Leads with data - our decisions are grounded in insights, not assumptions
- Collaborates openly - we work across people and teams in a pragmatic, inclusive, and transparent way
- Never stops learning - the technology landscape is evolving fast, and we evolve with it
- Owns our commitments - we communicate our roadmap clearly and hold ourselves accountable to delivering it
IKEA has long been a global leader in home furnishing. We are proud of our vision to improve the everyday life of the many people. But our industry is quickly changing, and we need to adapt to stay competitive. We see so many opportunities for what we can accomplish and have the ambition to be a world-class team. At the same time, we believe that our work is not just about building models, but also about learning and having fun together.