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 Management. You will play a key role in shaping and maintaining our People Management – Core HCM area.
We believe you bring:
- Has deep experience (8-10 yrs) in HR technology product ownership — ideally across SF EC, OpenText, or similar enterprise platforms
- Experience in data standardization — data models, consistency, and quality
- Experience owning and communicating a product roadmap, with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
- The ability to identify gaps in data pipelines and translate them into clear use cases for engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — you can bridge business, data, and technology
- 6-7 years of experience in a similar role within HR Tech and product-oriented environments
- Proven experience in collaboration driven outcome
- Strong communication and visualization skills
- Naturally connects strategy to execution — comfortable at both 30,000 feet and ground level
- Is curious and forward-looking — turning trends and AI developments into actionable roadmap decisions
- Thrives in cross-functional environments — managing dependencies, driving alignment, and enabling timely decisions
- Communicates complex choices 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 Management platform — spanning SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, and OpenText for document management and storage. This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, directly impacting how we manage and serve co-workers across the organisation.
This means that you will:
- Define and own the multi-year product roadmap — balancing business value, cost, risk, and technical sustainability
- Shape a forward-looking AI and innovation roadmap — identifying where intelligence and automation add real value
- Stay close to market trends and vendor developments — translating them into practical platform direction
- Lead planning and prioritisation — managing cross-team dependencies across SF EC, OpenText, and adjacent platforms
- Translate business needs into clear solutions and a well-structured backlog using roadmap tools and Jira
- Drive stakeholder alignment across global business, centres of excellence, and engineering teams
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and digital leadership on platform strategy and trade-offs
- Ensure platform reliability, compliance, and data integrity across all People Management processes
- Continuously improve platform quality, adoption, and user experience
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 Ingkas global organisation.
You will be part of a team that is leading the People Management solutions — with a clear vision: to bring core HCM processes and solutions to our many co-workers.
We are a team that believes in:
- Being data driven in our approach and decisions
- Collaborate between people and teams in a pragmatic and open way
- Continuously learn and improve – the landscape is evolving and so are we
- Transparency - we communicate our roadmap clearly and hold ourselves accountable to 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.