What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Software Engineering position at HARMAN International?
About The Role
You will be responsible for all Software (SW) deliverables related to a Japanese OEM customer program. The person in this role will take on the lead role to ensure that the project is executed and delivered with top-quality and on-time while ensuring the business delivers to or ideally exceeds its committed level of profitability. The person will have a small team of SW Project Lead’s to lead and work with in order to ensure we are implementing SW best practices/process, partnering effectively with the customer groups and managing change and SW release to customers, factories and service.
Your Team
Your team is made up of 5 SW Leaders, Config Managers, Defect Managers etc. The team will be distributed across multiple geographies.
What You Will Do
You will be responsible for all Software (SW) deliverables related to a Japanese OEM customer program. The person in this role will take on the lead role to ensure that the project is executed and delivered with top-quality and on-time while ensuring the business delivers to or ideally exceeds its committed level of profitability. The person will have a small team of SW Project Lead’s to lead and work with in order to ensure we are implementing SW best practices/process, partnering effectively with the customer groups and managing change and SW release to customers, factories and service.
Your Team
Your team is made up of 5 SW Leaders, Config Managers, Defect Managers etc. The team will be distributed across multiple geographies.
What You Will Do
- Be responsible to deliver SW for Customer programs in high quality, in time and in cost.
- 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.
- Staff and manage a team of SW Leaders, Config Managers, Defect Managers focused on the overall SW Delivery for all projects in scope of your area of responsibility.
- Oversee the activities within the various programs that they are responsible for and provide their team with the necessary guidance and support required to be successful.
- Work together with Biz-Analysts (from the regional Support offices) to identify and prioritize improvement areas in the different projects to optimize engineering costs and use synergies between projects of same OEM or region.
- Responsible for career growth and technical skills enhancements for all SW Leaders in your team.
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
- 15 years of overall professional experience in development and delivery
- 10 years of Experience in automotive project development.
- 5 years in leading multi-national teams/resources
- Proven expertise in developing complex systems from architecture to implementation
- Proven ability to lead, mentor and grow diverse teams
- Master's Degree in Engineering, MBA
- Be willing to travel up to 30% domestic and international travel
- Be willing to work in an office in North America/Europe/APAC, depending on regional responsibilities.
- 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
