Software Cluster Lead

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Role

As a Software Project Lead at Harman, you are responsible for successfully running the Software part of our Intelligent Cockpit Products and ensure project deliveries in time, budget, and quality. You are the face to the customer for a group of software domain topics.
What You Will Do

• You will lead a dedicated SW Team and being responsible to deliver SW for Customer programs in high quality, in time and in cost for a group of functional domains.
• Acts as a role model in terms of leadership and code of business conduct in Project Management
• Understand potential customer’s expectation clearly and lead engineering teams to deliver according to customer expectation in terms of timing and quality.
• Report and explain technical matters to customer clearly, negotiate and communicate with customer to reach mutual agreements and conclusions.
• Ensure high level of collaboration and transparency between the various entities involved with project execution, including but not limited to the CG, SW/HW domain and Test.
• Own and monitor the project metrics and ensure they stay healthy. Risks are identified earlier, and mitigation actions are initiated in a timely and effective manner.
• Management reporting internally incl. SBU Leader (Director level and above)
• Constantly tracks project key performance indicators and sets priorities for optimization.
• Works with procurement to ensure license and royalty prices are best-in-class and correct.
• Support VAVE initiatives with ideas and research.

What You Need

• University degree in engineering (Electrical Engineering, Information Technology) or Business Administration or appropriate graduation
• Several successfully steered high value, complex or strategic projects in global development.
• Ability to plan and manage technical projects and lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to understand complex systems, to break down and structure into reasonable parts so dependencies become visible, describable, and thus manageable.
• Ability to define, pursue and reach strong and measurable individual aims corresponding to general HARMAN strategy and to integrate people, to resolve conflicts, broad intercultural experience, Excellent communication skill.
• Experience to work and directly communicate to Japanese-OEM with excellent presentation and explanation skills about technical matters.

What is Nice to Have

• Certified Project Management Professional (e.g. PMP).
• Automotive experience
• Projects implemented with Automotive ASPICE Level 3
• Experience in real-time embedded software and system development.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 20% domestic and international travel.
• Be willing to work in an office in Tokyo (Nagoya as option), Japan.
• Successfully complete a background investigation/Aptitude Test as a condition of employment.

What We Offer

• We offer an authentic diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
• You will work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry.
• Our work environments are fast paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible and exciting.
• We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
• We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.