About this role
### Additional Location:
Boblingen - Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Bochum - North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Karlsbad - Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Ulm - Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
What You’ll Be Part Of
You will own end-to-end SDV product use cases within the SDV & AI Solutions pillar of HARMAN's Software Products portfolio — the composition layer that defines what HARMAN's customers actually buy. Your role is define how capabilities from across the platform combine into coherent, high-value vehicle lifecycle use cases for specific market segments. You will be close to customers, deeply fluent in the SDV platform's capability landscape, and able to translate both into a roadmap that drives commercial outcomes.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Own the use-case roadmap for one or more SDV market segments: define which vehicle lifecycle scenarios HARMAN should address, what capabilities are required, and how they compose into a coherent customer offering.
- Conduct continuous discovery with OEM customers and Tier 1 partners: understand their development and deployment workflows, pain points, and buying criteria.
- Work with the SDV Infrastructure and SDV Developer Experience pillars to specify capability requirements that arise from use-case needs — and validate that delivered capabilities meet the bar.
- Define success metrics for each use case: activation, adoption, customer satisfaction, and business impact.
- Support go-to-market: work with Sales, Pre-Sales, and Product Marketing to build the use-case narrative, demos, and commercial packaging.
- Contribute to the HARMAN SDV brand positioning by ensuring use-case stories are clear, differentiated, and grounded in real customer value.
What Makes You A Strong Fit
- 5+ years in product management, ideally for complex B2B platform or software products.
- Experience defining end-to-end product experiences that depend on multiple underlying capabilities or services.
- Solid understanding of the automotive software domain: OTA, SDV architecture, vehicle development cycles, or connected vehicle services.
- Strong customer discovery and research skills — able to run interviews, synthesise findings, and translate them into prioritised product decisions.
- Comfortable working across organisational boundaries: influencing engineering teams and capability pillars you do not directly control.
- Excellent communication skills — able to present to customers, write clear specs, and tell compelling product stories.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Bonus Points if You Have
- Hands-on experience with one or more SDV capability domains: OTA, software distribution, virtualisation, or testing.
- Prior experience at an automotive OEM, Tier 1 supplier, or automotive software platform company.
- Exposure to AI-enhanced product features and understanding of how to position AI capabilities to enterprise customers.
- Experience with platform business models, API ecosystems, or marketplace products.
What Makes You Eligible
- Willingness to travel up to 25% , both domestically and internationally.
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
What You Can Expect
- A hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with in-person collaboration, with most office-based roles onsite three days a week.
- 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
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