AES - Functional Owner

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: 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

About the Role

Our new Functional Owner is accountable for the end to end delivery of the features inside the assigned domain. You will be a key stakeholder in the project, by coordinating all the required effort for the features definition, development and testing and by acting as the single point of contact for your domain.

What You Will Do

• Define, plan and monitor all the activities related to the assigned domain, in alignment with the overall project scope and timeline

• Collaborate with your customer counter-part to clarify the requirements and translate them into technical requirements for the development team

• Partner with the software project lead to align on the project timelines and priorities and to report the status of domain features against the plan

• Support the system and software architects during the architecture definition

• Coordinate with the other domain functional owners, to identify interfaces and dependencies

• Lead the software development team to ensure the features are implemented and validated according to defined technical requirements

• Work with the test manager to ensure the features are properly tested and the reported issues are addressed

• Ensure adherence to both Harman and customer processes, standards and quality requirements

What You Need to be Successful

• University degree (MSc/BSc)

• Proven experience in automotive embedded software development, with relevant involvement in requirements management, architecture definition, development and testing

• Experience with working in a matrix based organization

• Experience with ALM and Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) tools

• Analytical and systems thinking abilities

• Communication and technical presentation skills

• Self-driven, autonomous and structured way of working

• Good English language skills

Bonus Points if You Have

• Knowledge of Automotive Connectivity/Telematics systems

• Experience in external customer facing roles

• Good understanding of Automotive quality standards (e.g., ASPICE)

• Experience with working within an agile development framework (e.g., SAFe)

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel up to 25%

• Willingness to work in a hybrid model, with the office located in Bucharest, Romania

What We Offer 

• 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

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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.