Senior Product Owner - Marketing Workflow Management

"You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.

A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."

• Location San Sebastián de los Reyes
• Employment type Full Time Permanent co-worker
• Department IT & Digital Solutions
• Deadline 2026-10-26

Candidate profile (title) Why we will love you Candidate profile (text) - Default language You are a collaborative digital product leader passionate about making work simpler and bringing great marketing campaigns to life. You understand co-worker needs, untangle complex processes and turn marketing technology opportunities into intuitive solutions. If you thrive in agile environments, this is your opportunity.

You lead with humility, embody IKEA’s culture and values. We are looking for an experienced product professional with at least five years of progressive digital product experience and a record of guiding Product Owners, product managers or cross-functional colleagues. You lead without formal authority, align perspectives.

You can shape product vision, navigate dependencies in Agile and DevOps environments, and make data-informed decisions. You build trusted partnerships with marketing leaders, creative specialists, agency partners and technical teams.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need

• Senior product leadership & mentoring: Five years of progressive product management experience, including guiding Product Owners, product managers or cross-functional teams.
• Marketing workflow management & campaign briefing: Understanding of campaign lifecycles, creative briefing, intake, review and approval. You reduce friction so teams can focus on creative quality and commercial impact.
• Adobe Workfront & workflow automation: Hands-on experience with Adobe Workfront and ideally Workfront Fusion or similar tools. You understand workflows, request queues, intake forms, digital proofing, templates.
• Product vision, strategy & roadmap: Ability to define a vision, strategy, roadmap and backlog connecting co-worker needs to business priorities. Experience with Engineering, UX/UI Design and Data Analytics in Agile ways of working.
• Product discovery & co-worker empathy: Experience with interviews, research, journey mapping, personas and prototyping.
• Agile leadership & delivery: Practical Scrum or Kanban experience. You support rituals, prioritisation and story mapping.
• Stakeholder partnership & change leadership: Strong communication, listening and negotiation skills. You build trust across marketing teams, creative agencies, technical specialists and senior leaders.
• Data-informed decisions & OKRs: Experience tracking OKRs and KPIs such as campaign cycle time, briefing completeness, adoption and operational bottlenecks.
• Technical acumen & MarTech integration: Understanding of software delivery and integrations across Digital Asset Management/Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Creative Cloud, CRM.
• AI, storytelling & problem solving: Interest in AI agents and agentic workflows is an advantage. Key responsibilities (title) A day in your life with us Key responsibilities (text) As Senior Product Owner for Marketing Workflow Management, you will modernise how IKEA plans, briefs and delivers campaigns across global and country markets. You will improve collaboration, reduce time-to-market and create consistent customer experiences.

You will set the direction for marketing work management solutions centred on Adobe Workfront and connected briefing applications. With engineers, UX designers, marketing operations leads, creative partners and Product Owners, you will shape the roadmap. You will work across markets and disciplines to improve planning, briefing, approvals and delivery. You will balance strategic direction with practical execution, create transparency through useful data, and make complex work easier for co-workers. Success means better adoption, faster campaign flow, stronger collaboration, clearer accountability and more time for teams to focus on ideas that create value for customers and the business. This is an important opportunity to shape a connected, modern marketing ecosystem. for IKEA teams. globally.

You will explore AI agent orchestration, testing how intelligent agents can improve briefs, route approvals and coordinate creative deliverables. This is an opportunity to represent the product area and shape the future of marketing collaboration at IKEA.

• Define and communicate product strategy: Set the vision, roadmap and prioritised backlog for Marketing Workflow Management and Campaign Briefing, connecting discovery, delivery to business outcomes.
• Lead discovery and solve co-worker friction: Understand needs across marketing organisations, agencies. Use research and operational data to identify pain points and shape useful solutions.
• Steer Adobe Workfront: Guide Workfront and connected tools, prioritising workflow, briefing, approval and reporting improvements.
• Lead product capability: Coach Product Owners and colleagues, share product practices.
• Set measurable outcomes: Define OKRs and indicators such as campaign turnaround, briefing completeness, adoption and reduced friction. Use results to demonstrate value.
• Align stakeholders and lead change: Build alignment across markets and functions, communicate decisions.
• Explore AI innovation: Test and scale opportunities such as brief enrichment, asset validation and intelligent task routing, focusing on co-worker outcomes.
• Manage dependencies and improvement: Oversee risks and dependencies across MarTech initiatives and share learnings. Team vision ( title) Together as a team Team vision (text) At Group Digital, Marketing & Loyalty, we set IKEA’s digital agenda. Through collaboration, human-centric design and commercial focus, we develop digital products that empower co-workers.

Within Marketing Activation, we are transforming engagement with customers and co-workers. Our vision is a tailored IKEA experience at the right moment and in the right channels.

Marketing Strategy & Planning is central to this transformation. We enable teams with digital capabilities that simplify workflows, enhance collaboration and unleash creative energy. Let's connect Apply now! Let´s connect Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

From: “Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified” by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014”

The role is based in Madrid, Spain.

“In line with our value of togetherness, we believe the best way to collaborate and co-create is when we meet in the office.”

We will be interviewing continuously and look forward to hearing from you!

Internal title: Senior Product Owner

“In this recruitment there is no relocation support provided by IKEA; hence we are looking for people living in the mentioned location.”

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Please respect that due to GDPR we cannot review applications submitted outside the recruitment programme. Please submit your application in English.

Why you will love us

From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.

At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.

Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.

What we all have in common

• Living our values
• Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
• A passion for home furnishing
• Performing & delivering while learning & developing
• Having fun!