Assignment Job specific key tasks and responsibilities
• Responsible to set the platform vision with a clear roadmap, ensuring it aligns with digital product roadmap ambitions.
• Responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of a software or technology platform
• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the platform. This includes monitoring performance, managing user accounts and access, and ensuring that the platform is running smoothly.
• Accountable for the platform backlog (build, edit and maintain) and also to clearly communicate the backlog to products and other stakeholders.
• Accountable for platform prioritization based on needs from various products and release needs.
• Comply with relevant frameworks and standards.
• Responsible for the composition and operational functioning of the digital platform team
• Accountable for digital platform release plan, communication and setting of expectations for delivery of new features and functionalities.
• Responsible for managing key stakeholder engagement (e.g. developers, suppliers)
• Responsible for securing that the digital platforms are efficient and simple for the products and developers, controlling the costs and giving input to the overall budget.
• Responsible to manage dependencies and blockers, improving digital platform delivery capabilities.
• Gather insights to understand and empathize with the products and developers' reality.
• Identify and create measures of success to understand how the platform achieves desired outcomes
Qualifications• Minimum of 5 years of progressive and diverse experience in digital product or platform development
• Demonstrable experience in working in an Agile or DevOps working set-up
• Strong knowledge of the software engineer’s day to day challenges
• Knowledge and experience working with various technologies
• Experience working with and understanding the needs of developers
• Proven analytical skills and experience making decisions based on hard and soft data
• Strong communication skills with business and technical stakeholders
• Strong team working, leading and collaboration skills
Skills Required
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive and diverse experience in digital product or platform development
- Demonstrable experience in working in Agile or DevOps environments
- Strong knowledge of software engineering challenges
- Knowledge and experience working with various technologies
- Proven analytical skills and data-driven decision making
- Strong communication skills with business and technical stakeholders
- Strong team working, leading and collaboration skills
IKEA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IKEA and has not been reviewed or approved by IKEA.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive for eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision alongside company‑paid protections. Feedback suggests access is available for many part‑time schedules, with additional resources such as savings accounts and mental health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is presented as generous, complemented by paid time off for caregiving needs. Family‑focused benefits like adoption support and childcare discounts are also available in some regions.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401k with company match and the Tack! loyalty pension contributions, alongside pension or group insurance in certain markets. These programs are positioned as broad‑based, adding long‑term value to total rewards.
IKEA Insights
What We Do
The IKEA vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. Our business idea is to offer well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. The IKEA Brand unites more than 200.000 co-workers and hundreds of companies with different owners all over the world. It’s one brand, but it reaches millions of hearts and homes. Our value chain is unique. It includes everything from product development, design, supply, manufacture and sales – and of course it begins and ends with our customers.
