Brand Owner

Role Description

The Car Audio Brand Experience Team designs innovative Branded Audio consumer experiences that positively impact lives through advanced products and technologies. This role leads the brand experience vision, develops customer relationships, and manages cross-functional teams to deliver brand experience product bundles with customer partners. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading cross-functional teams to create production-ready experience packages, combining hardware, software, and consumer-focused features, and presenting them as brand and customer proposals.
• Delivering reusable assets for production integration and validation in automotive environments, ensuring speed and quality.
• Acting as the primary technical and business interface for stakeholders worldwide and collaborating with consumer and professional divisions to align technologies and roadmaps.
• Expanding the brand experience portfolio across assigned brands and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related demonstrated technical expertise.
• 20+ years of combined brand, audio, product, and business-related experience.
• 5+ years in leadership, customer relationship management, and supplier relationships, preferably in automotive and/or luxury audio.
• A mature approach toward leadership and soft skills: building trust and long-term internal team relationships to influence consistent, positive outcomes.
• Functional audio architecture knowledge of automotive infotainment and audio systems.
• Demonstrated acumen in business case development, program management, make/buy, commercial, and product bundling/sales strategy, feature ideation, and consumer validation.
• Ability to communicate advanced and complex concepts and ideas persuasively and concisely to all levels of the business.
• A "whatever-it-takes" attitude using diplomatic leadership skills within a collaborative teamwork environment to accomplish the necessary results.
• Experience leading a team to drive time-critical projects to completion.

Requirements

• A combination of Engineering and Business Degrees (e.g., Ba ENG + MBA) is nice to have.
• Strong recommendations from automotive industry colleagues.
• Automotive Business & Engineering Landscape Knowledge.
• Passion for the power of brand as a unifying concept for bundles of experience products.
• Passion for acoustics and sound reproduction.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
• Salary Ranges: $210,000 - $308,000.

Company Description

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.