Product Specialist- Digital Workplace (Product Strategy & Roadmap Planning)

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Employment Type: Regular

Who you are

We are seeking a Product Specialist to focus on end user devices—including laptops, desktops, and print solutions—for our many colleagues.

Join us as we develop innovative ways to help IKEA stay relevant to our customers.

Our diverse Co-worker devices team is growing, and we would love to talk with you, if you recognize yourself in some of the following:

Passionate about being at the leading edge of technology and digital innovation within End User Computing.

Have a strong background in unified endpoint management solutions

Love being creative through agile analysis techniques for creating user stories and business justifications.

Is a team player who takes ownership, builds cross-functional relationships with peers and loves sharing knowledge with others

Have experience working with large enterprise device management systems

Appreciate the mix of strategic thinking and turning engineering trends into practice

Energized by working both independently and interdependently and cross functions

Intermediate analytical capabilities, including both quantitative and qualitative analysis

Delivery focused with excellent attention to detail and drive to resolve issues

Proactively manage relevant stakeholders

Is curious, self-directed and want to keep learning!


Key previous experience and skills needed:

Proven work on owning outcomes and influencing product decisions

Demonstrable experience in working in an Agile or DevOps working set-up

Demonstrable experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis

Proven analytical skills and experience making decisions based on hard and soft data

This is our wish list! If you don’t recognize yourself in all these points, you might still be an excellent candidate for the role.


The must-haves we see for this role is though:

8+ years of proven experience in digital product development.

5+ years of proven experience in End User Computing focusing on client management and Print management

8+ years of proven work with enterprise, global stakeholders

Strong communication skills with global business and technical stakeholders

Strong collaboration skills across international product and engineering teams

About this work area

You’ll be a vital part in the transformation of IKEA into a more front-line obsessed company by ensuring that we provide device offerings that are both cost-efficient as well as fit for purpose for our co-workers globally. You immerse yourself in our products, turning complexity into insights that inspires both consumers and teams. By connecting technology with user experience, you help to ensure every feature makes sense and adds value. As a Product Specialist, you tell compelling stories that make products relatable and engaging for diverse audiences. Your passions sparks confidence drives progress and nurtures a mindset of continuous improvements.

This mean that you will:
Responsible for all product related analysis, utilizing both customer and product data

Support the product owner in tactical decision making with analysis results and insights

Supporting the Product Owner in writing user stories

To test, analyze and validate the actual impact of the product to make sure the product reaches its goals

Where needed, (and directed by the Product Manager/Owner) work with co-workers to understand and quantify their needs and requirements, ensuring they are included and integrated into the product as needed

Work cross functional to ensure that the agile team has what is needs and remove blockers that prevent the agile team to maximize the delivery of digital products

Together as a team

We’re the ones who make it possible for people to have a smarter life at home and a hassle-free and rewarding shopping experience. Together we work to find new digital solutions for every business need to help make IKEA a great and efficient place to work. We like to think of ourselves as innovative and modern, and we believe that nothing would actually work without us.