Engineering Project Management (m/f/d)

A Career at HARMAN Automotive

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive, we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

- Engineer audio systems and integrated technology platforms that augment the driving experience
- Combine ingenuity, in-depth research, and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
- Advance in-vehicle infotainment, safety, efficiency, and enjoyment

What You’ll Be Part Of

As the Program CEO of a complex, high-revenue automotive program, the Senior Program Manager provides overall leadership for the cross-functional team responsible for developing, launching, and sustaining innovative products and services. Acting as the primary customer interface, the Senior Program Manager defines program objectives, drives execution, and ensures alignment between customer expectations and business goals. The role is accountable for balancing profitability, quality, timing, and risk while leading change management activities from program award through successful launch and stable serial production.

Your Team

You will lead a cross-functional core team (TEAM 1) responsible for the development, industrialization, and successful launch of innovative automotive products that meet customer requirements and achieve high levels of customer satisfaction. The team's mission is to deliver products on time, at the required quality level, and within financial targets, while ensuring a smooth transition into stable serial production.

The team brings together experts from Sales, Engineering, Product Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Quality. As Senior Program Manager, you will provide overall leadership, align stakeholders around common objectives, and drive the program to achieve its business, customer, and operational goals throughout the product lifecycle.

How You’ll Make An Impact

- Lead and develop cross-functional teams to successfully deliver complex automotive products and services from concept through production launch.
- Define program objectives, governance, communication strategies, and ways of working across internal and external stakeholders.
- Assume full end-to-end accountability for program execution, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and business objectives.
- Deliver program targets related to timing, quality, profitability, budget, and product cost throughout the program lifecycle.
- Balance cost, schedule, and quality objectives while proactively managing trade-offs and ensuring achievement of overall program goals.
- Drive risk, issue, change, and scope management processes, including leadership of internal and customer-facing change control activities.
- Support business acquisition activities by contributing to RFIs, RFQs, feasibility assessments, technical solution development, and commercial proposals.
- Own overall program planning, financial management, forecasting, and performance tracking.
- Ensure effective collaboration and technical alignment across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, purchasing, and commercial functions.
- Act as the primary customer interface for all program-related topics, maintaining strong relationships with OEM stakeholders and ensuring transparent communication.
- Lead the transition from development and prototyping into industrialization, ramp-up, and stable serial production.
- Provide regular program status reporting to customers and executive leadership, including escalation management and decision support at senior management level.
- Drive value management initiatives and cost optimization activities throughout the product lifecycle.
- Ensure successful post-launch support and program stabilization beyond SOP, including coordination of major customer and quality topics.

What Makes You A Strong Fit

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related technical field; equivalent experience will also be considered.
- Minimum 8-10 years of experience in product development and/or program management, including leadership of complex cross-functional programs in an automotive or similarly demanding industry.
- Proven track record of successfully leading and launching complex products from business award through stable serial production.
- Experience managing large-scale automotive OEM programs and acting as the primary customer interface for executive stakeholders is highly desirable.
- Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align global cross-functional teams and manage executive-level customer interactions.
- Solid understanding of product development processes, program management methodologies, financial management, and P&L principles.
- Demonstrated ability to drive decision-making, resolve conflicts, manage risks, and perform effectively in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Bonus Points if You Have

- Master of Science, Technical or MBA
- PMP Certification
- Automotive supplier, Tier1 Electronics background
- Direct experience with applicable customer

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 and others).
- Learning and development opportunities through our award-winning HARMAN University programs
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
- Work on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that motivates you to give your best.

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About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.
Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other.
If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today! (https://harmanglobal.avature.net/talentcommunity)

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