UX Lead - Software Factories

TRATON is a group of strong brands with a shared mission: transforming transportation together to create the future of sustainable transport solutions. Within TRATON, we include MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Truck & Bus, and International. As part of a global team of industry experts, you get to think bigger, experience more, and reach further. Together, we have the power to transform transportation - Let´s make a difference together. Find out more: www.traton.com

Our values - customer first, respect, team spirit, responsibility, and elimination of waste - are at the heart of everything we do.

Role Summary

This role is a part of TRATON Group R&D, located in Södertälje, Sweden.
As a UX Lead within the Software Factories you lead User Experience design as a strategically important function and combine direction with active, hands-on work. You will be driving discovery, strategy, and highquality delivery across complex, multiplatform ecosystems while leading, mentoring a team of designers and collaborate deeply with cross-functional leaders and engineers. Your work significantly influences what is to be built by ensuring user-centric development while embracing modern tooling (especially AI) to drive both quality and speed.

You connect business strategy, technological feasibility, and real user needs to shape clear direction, principles, and value propositions. You coach teams, uplift UX maturity, and ensure governance and designsystem consistency, accessibility, and measurable impact. You are part of the VCT Software Factory Runway and are expected to actively contribute to the VCT's overall strategy and priorities.

Job Responsibilities

You will have an overall responsibility for product and application deliveries at a strategic, tactical and operational level in all channels and towards all target groups. You are responsible for the UX team, working methods and delivery, with the goal that design should contribute to business benefit, user value, and a strong operation within R&D EE Software Factory VCT. You ensure that design is a central part of product and business development.

This is an opportunity to build a UX function from the ground up - shaping not just the interface, but the very paradigm through how internal toolchain enables EE development for SDV. You will bring user experience cohesion and recognition across a suite of products and applications, creating a seamless experience that reduces learning curves and improves ways of working for our internal customers.

• Embed UX thinking into the product development lifecycle from discovery through delivery -Facilitating workshops, aligning senior stakeholders, and converting design intent into epics, user stories, and development-ready specs.
• Define and own the vision, strategy and roadmap for the UX design team, coaching, mentoring and developing team members within the VCT to elevate UX maturity - establishing excellent user experience in products and applications across EE Software toolchains.
• Lead early-stage problem framing and customer discovery, synthesize research into actionable roadmaps, and translate insights into flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI (Figma) for web, mobile, and relevant interfaces, customer validation, data driven (qualitative and quantitative).
• Acting as the design voice in product leadership: shaping priorities, highlighting user problems, and advocating for quality while engaging with trade-offs.
• Driving the adoption of modern design tools and AI-aided workflows that accelerate both quality and delivery.

Who You Are

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds - your unique experience and perspectives is valuable to us.

You are a curious and collaborative leader who thrives in setting direction, influences stakeholders and enables teams to deliver better experiences. You enjoy working in complex environments and are motivated by turning insights into practical, impactful design solutions. You take ownership of your work, but also thrive in close collaboration with designers, developers, product owners, and other stakeholders.

We believe you recognise yourself in the following:

• Several years of experience (ideally around 6-8 years) in digital product design (ideally related to embedded software and hardware interfaces), leading UX across complex, multi-product environment strategically.
• Relevant education in design or equivalent experience.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Be hands-on across the full product development cycle: user research, information architecture, design, implementation, testing.
• Demonstrable experience in leading end-to-end design process in technical, engineering software with strong technical understanding.
• Expertise in Figma, design systems, and accessibility best practices, and showcase how the AI shift has been applied within these tools.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive alignment, and build strong cross-functional relationships.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Nice to have:

• Experience with API product lifecycles, configuration workflows, and developer documentation

TRATON Offers

We offer a dynamic and engaging workplace where collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement are part of everyday life. You will be part of a strong team environment that encourages knowledge sharing and close cooperation across functions.

With a structured development plan and a wide range of training opportunities, TRATON Group R&D supports your professional growth both locally and internationally.

Benefits include access to our health center in Gröndal or a wellness allowance, bonus, flexible working hours, and company car leasing. We also arrange events for employees and their families, and for those living in Stockholm, convenient commuting is supported through direct Scania Job express buses to Södertälje.

This Is Us

Based at Scania Technical Centre we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system while shaping the future of mobility together with our brands in the TRATON Group. Technology is at the heart of this journey - we are currently reshaping and strengthening our digital backbone and embedded platforms. We are going together into a more global footprint, modernizing how we work and thus giving our business the processes, Methods, and tools to lead. Our Embedded Enablement solutions are vital for ensuring trust in our products, meet regulatory demands, and deliver value for our engineers and customers globally. Now, we are looking for a UX Lead to define and drive the UX vision across multiple teams in the Software Factories.

Within TRATON Group R&D, you are an important part of something bigger. Joining us means gaining access to the ins and outs of the entire transportation industry.

Application

We look forward to receiving your application, consisting of your CV and kindly ask you not to share a cover letter to ensure an efficient and unbiased recruitment process for all parties.

Apply as soon as possible, no later than 2026-11-05. Screening will take place on an ongoing basis during the application period. Logical and personality tests may be used as part of the selection process, and a background check may be required for this role.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact:

We look forward to your application!

This recruitment process is handled by Scania for TRATON Group R&D

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level 6

Requisition ID: 33569

Number of Openings: 1.0

Part-time / Full-time: Full-time

Permanent / Temporary: Permanent

Country / Region: SE

Location(s):
Södertälje, SE, 151 38

Required Travel: 0-25%

Workplace: Hybrid