About the job

As a Digital product leader, you will have the chance to lead the development and implementation of viable, valuable, feasible, and desirable digital products, including the opportunity to spearhead a product aimed at simplifying internal and external product communication. You will be accountable for the product backlog (build, edit, and maintain) and prioritisation, for solution requirements through user stories to meet business needs and user experience.

You will create and communicate a product vision while leading an empowered and motivated product team. Acting as the bridge between our business partners and product teams, you'll collaborate closely with our capability area to prioritise the product backlog and define OKRs.

Reporting to the Digital Product Manager, you'll work alongside your colleagues to ensure data and technology is connected. While representing the needs of the IKEA stakeholder community, you'll be the voice of our users, ensuring that our efforts consistently deliver maximum value.

About you

You are the type of person that can manage to see the big picture and the details, and you collaborate and communicate with your stakeholders to build trust and partnership to reach our common goals. You need to be a good communicator to inspire and give direction to the team, partners, and stakeholders.

Unafraid of complex environments, you see them as an opportunity to clarify and simplify.  
You are curious and open-minded, naturally building bridges between teams.

To be successful in this role, the following knowledge, skills and experiences would be valuable:

• Solid software Product Management experience leading a cross-functional team  
• Strong understanding of marketing, content and product information management technologies  
• Strong ability to create and communicate a product vision, mission and product strategy  
• Strong ability to lead, inspire, and empower team members while delivering with speed and employing an agile approach to development, both internally and externally. Serve as an ambassador for agile practices and product culture within your team and across transversal teams.  
• Strong ability to communicate and create trustful relationships in collaborative processes as well as visualising concepts and ideas  
• Ability to handle complexity and solve problems through simplicity  
• Passionate about technology and trends that create better solutions and bring business and user value  
• High entrepreneurial drive: Stretching boundaries, challenging what already exists, always striving to develop a better digital landscape  
• Previous experience in tech companies and/or retail will give you an extra edge

This role is full-time (40-hours per week) and based in Älmhult, Sweden with travel to the office in Malmö will occur occasionally. This role sits in the Range Operations, Digital Product Area of Commercial and reports to Digital Product Manager.

If you have questions about the recruitment process, please connect with Jamila via [email protected]

Interested? Submit your CV and let us know why you would be a good fit for this role, in English, by March 28th 2025. 

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.


At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs. At IKEA, we’re all on the same project.