Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.
KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.
Technology and innovation careers - KONE Corporation
We are now looking for a
Product Owner, Simulation Platform
to join our team in Hyvinkää, Finland. We work in a hybrid way mixing office and remote work, with a minimum of three office days per week. We are looking for an experienced professional to join us full-time.
Are you ready to shape the future of engineering simulation? We are looking for a Product Owner to lead the vision, roadmap, lifecycle, and development of KONE’s Simulation Platform. You will connect engineering, simulation experts, IT, vendors, and development teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and valuable simulation capabilities.
This role combines product leadership, simulation-domain understanding, and technical judgement. Your scope includes roadmap planning, platform performance, simulation data, integrations, licenses, releases, support, adoption, and continuous improvement.
What You Will Do
-Own and communicate the platform vision, roadmap, backlog, and lifecycle plan
-Prioritize demand based on business value, user impact, cost, risk, dependencies, and feasibility
-Translate user and stakeholder needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and release goals
-Guide work from discovery through validation, release, adoption, and continuous improvement
-Oversee platform performance, integrations, upgrades, support, security, compliance, and technical debt
-Govern simulation data, licenses, access rights, vendor services, capacity, and spend
-Align engineering, simulation, IT, architecture, vendor, and business stakeholders on decisions and trade-offs
-Develop the key-user network and improve feedback, communication, guidance, training, and support
What You Bring
We are looking for a collaborative, outcome-oriented product professional who brings:
-Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience
-4–6 years of relevant experience in product ownership, product management, development, or lifecycle management of simulation platforms, engineering applications, or comparable technical services
-Practical understanding of engineering simulation workflows and digital simulation environments (e.g. digital twin, HIL, structural or system simulations)
-Ability to define a vision and roadmap, manage a backlog, prioritize competing needs, and guide delivery from discovery through adoption
Experience translating complex business and engineering needs into clear, testable -requirements
-Experience managing technical platforms, including integrations, releases, support, risk, and continuous improvement
-Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and structured problem-solving skills
-Ability to coordinate delivery across virtual and multicultural teams
-Fluent written and spoken English
Additional Advantages
-Experience with C#, .NET, SQL, APIs, scripting, automation, or simulation-data management
-Knowledge of agile delivery, service or vendor management, software licenses, platform architecture, observability, access control, or information security
For additional information please contact Pekka Marttila (Product Manager, Design and Engineering Solutions) tel. +358 40 861 2260 on Thursday, August 27th 15-15:30 or Monday, August 31st 14:30-15 o’clock EET.
Want to join the #PeopleFlow?
If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers-site latest by Sunday, September 13th, 2026.
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience
- 4–6 years of relevant experience in product ownership, product management, development, or lifecycle management of simulation platforms, engineering applications, or comparable technical services
- Practical understanding of engineering simulation workflows and digital simulation environments, such as digital twin, HIL, structural, or system simulations
- Ability to define a vision and roadmap, manage a backlog, prioritize competing needs, and guide delivery from discovery through adoption
- Experience translating complex business and engineering needs into clear, testable requirements
- Experience managing technical platforms, including integrations, releases, support, risk, and continuous improvement
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and structured problem-solving skills
- Ability to coordinate delivery across virtual and multicultural teams
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Experience with C#, .NET, SQL, APIs, scripting, automation, or simulation-data management
- Knowledge of agile delivery, service or vendor management, software licenses, platform architecture, observability, access control, or information security
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
