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Role Description

The Technology Manager for BU Integration serves as the key strategic liaison between the Intelligent Audio team and the business units. In this role, you bridge advanced technology development and product execution, ensuring that the innovations from Intelligent Audio align with business unit roadmaps and get successfully integrated into products.

• Manage the technology planning process, capturing product requirements from various BUs (consumer, automotive, professional) and mapping them to the Intelligent Audio portfolio.
• Maintain an integrated technology roadmap that shows when and how new AI/DSP features will land in products.
• Coordinate efforts so that research delivers the “right technology at the right time” for the BUs.
• Handle outward communication and education – evangelizing Intelligent Audio capabilities to product teams and customers.
• Bring feedback back to the R&D team.

What You Will Do

• Roadmap Alignment: Develop and maintain a unified roadmap that links Intelligent Audio technology deliveries with product release schedules across multiple divisions.
• Requirements Gathering: Proactively gather detailed requirements from business units for intelligent audio features and translate these into technical requirements for the R&D team.
• Integration Planning: Coordinate the integration of new technologies into BU product development.
• Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the evangelist for Intelligent Audio within the company and to key external partners.
• Program Management: Oversee cross-team initiatives that involve Intelligent Audio tech and track progress of technology-related deliverables.
• Market & Competitive Awareness: Keep a pulse on industry trends and competitive moves in smart audio, AI, and adjacent domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field; MBA or relevant business training is a plus.
• 5-8+ years of experience in a technology management, product management, or technical program management role, ideally in the audio, consumer electronics, or automotive tech industry.
• Prior experience interfacing between R&D teams and product/business teams is highly desired.

Requirements

• Broad understanding of audio and AI technologies.
• Experience with media or audio technologies or AI/ML products is a strong asset.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects or roadmaps with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communicator in both written and verbal form.
• Good understanding of product lifecycle and go-to-market considerations.
• Highly collaborative, works well in a matrix organization.

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 products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

What Makes You Eligible

• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment (post-offer).