HARMAN International

People Operations

• Coordinate pillar execution across Academy, assessments/frameworks, onboarding, and community formats
• Maintain integrated project plans, timelines, trackers, governance cadences, and repositories
• Prepare meetings, agendas, follow-ups, and decision logs across global stakeholders
• Support rollout readiness for key initiatives such as learning roadmaps, onboarding series, feedback formats, and global/regional activation formats
• Create and refine presentations, dashboards, progress reviews, KPI trackers, and update materials
• Track deliverables, risks, dependencies, and escalation points across the People & Culture portfolio
• Support consistency of tools, templates, documentation, and ways of working across the pillar
• Partner closely with the two pillar leads to translate strategic concepts into executable workplans

Customer Excellence – People & Culture

Architect

• As the Global TcPCM Enterprise Architect, you are the strategic executive owner and integrator of the Teamcenter Product Cost Management (TcPCM) platform across HARMAN globally
• Ensure stable enterprise operations, governance, and continuous improvement of product costing workflows
• Chair, define, execute, and improve the multi-year digital product costing platform roadmap
• Ensure standardized costing processes, data governance, and calculation standards across the board
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, automation, and system integrations globally
• Acts as a senior strategic partner to Engineering, Product, Procurement, Finance, IT, and Program Management
• Strong business acumen to link product design, technology choices, and cost implications to margin and strategy outcomes

Director, TcPCM Architect

• Own end-to-end configuration, optimization, and operational support of Workday modules (HCM, Time Tracking, Absence, Recruiting) across global regions, ensuring alignment with business and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and support Workday enhancement initiatives and large-scale cross-functional projects, improving system accuracy, auditability, compliance, and user experience.
• Drive the implementation, enhancement, and adoption of ServiceNow capabilities related to HR Service Management and Employee Center, including evaluation and enablement of AI-driven features.
• Partner with People, Places, IT, and HR leadership to gather requirements, design scalable solutions, prioritize initiatives, and ensure successful delivery.
• Identify operational inefficiencies, system interdependencies, and process gaps, recommending technical and procedural improvements to meet business objectives.
• Support multi-quarter HR technology roadmaps, contributing to best practices, documentation, onboarding, and mentoring of team members.
• Proactively identify and escalate risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery impacts to HRIS leadership and project sponsors.
• Partner with stakeholders to define test strategies, scenarios, and scripts, and execute system and end-to-end testing in preparation for UAT.
• Support and manage Workday bi-annual releases, including impact analysis, testing coordination, and communication.

People Systems & Analytics Analyst

Full-stack Engineer

• Owner of Target costing system/process/framework for Automotive passenger electronic systems
• Lead, drive HARMAN Target Costing methodology for programs
• Translate customer target prices into system, module, and component-level target costs
• Identify, lead and track cost gaps, risks, and opportunities
• Drive cross program standards for cost closure actions with cross-functional stakeholders
• Ensure target cost alignment at key program milestones
• Develop, shape independently and maintain Target-cost models for HW, SW, and manufacturing
• Analyze BOMs, architectures, and manufacturing concepts
• Perform benchmarking and competitive cost analysis
• Identify value engineering opportunities and lead it through CVM process
• Support value workshops and cost reduction initiatives
• Contribute to reuse, modularization, and standardization strategies.

Principal Engineer, Product Target Costing

Business Development Rep

• Develop and manage strategic global relationships with (primary) Lighting Designers (min. 75-80% of time/efforts) plus (secondary) consultants, system integrators, distributors, rental customers and key end users within the professional Entertainment lighting ecosystem.
• Drive demand creation and specification for professional lighting solutions through education, demonstrations, and consultative engagement.
• Seek, Identify, develop, and convert new business opportunities to build a sustainable global specification pipeline aligned with business objectives.
• Manage frequent touchpoints and unfiltered engagement/feedback directly between key lighting designers and product management, R&D, application engineering and marketing.
• Support regional sales teams with pre‑sales and post‑sales technical and market expertise, including project pursuit strategy and key account engagement.
• Monitor global market trends, competitive activity, and customer feedback to identify growth opportunities and potential gaps in the lighting portfolio.
• Provide structured input into product management, product strategy and roadmap development by translating market requirements and customer insights into actionable recommendations.
• Ensure sales objectives, forecasts, and business development activities align with long‑term strategic goals.
• Collaborate with marketing on go‑to‑market initiatives, industry events, and thought‑leadership activities to strengthen brand presence in professional lighting.

Global Business Development Manager, Entertainment Lighting

Director

• Define and own the Data & Analytics vision and roadmap for the Automotive division, aligned with enterprise digital and AI strategy
• Act as a transformation leader, driving a shift from centralized data platforms to domain-driven, product-oriented data capabilities
• Partner with executive leadership to shape long-term AI, analytics, and data monetization strategies
• Champion a data-as-a-product mindset across business and technology teams
• Lead the design and rollout of a Data Mesh architecture, enabling domain-owned data products with federated governance
• Establish standards and best practices for data product ownership, including lifecycle management, SLAs, quality, security, and value measurement
• Enable interoperability, discoverability, and trust across data products through shared platforms and enablement services
• Balance innovation with scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across cloud and big data ecosystems
• Provide strategic oversight of big data platforms and engineering capabilities supporting batch, streaming, and real-time analytics
• Ensure scalable, secure, and resilient data pipelines across cloud and hybrid environments
• Guide platform evolution to support AI/ML workloads, feature stores, and analytics at scale
• Align data architecture with modern cloud-native and event-driven design principles
• Accelerate the AI and Advanced Analytics roadmap by enabling high-quality, reusable, and trusted data products
• Collaborate with AI/ML, software, and product teams to operationalize analytics and models into production
• Drive analytics maturity across descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive use cases
• Enable AI-driven decision-making across Automotive domains, including connected vehicles, software-defined vehicles, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and customer experience
• Own and drive tactical analytics execution within the Automotive division
• Prioritize and deliver high-impact analytics initiatives tied to business KPIs and operational outcomes
• Provide hands-on leadership and direction to analytics teams delivering insights, dashboards, and advanced models
• Ensure analytics outputs translate into actionable decisions and measurable value
• Define and implement federated data governance, including data quality, security, privacy, and compliance
• Establish a clear data operating model between central platforms and domain teams
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards
• Enable responsible AI and ethical data usage practices
• Build, lead, and mentor high-performing teams across data engineering, analytics, and data product management
• Foster a strong culture of data-driven decision-making and ownership
• Develop talent strategies to scale data, analytics, and AI capabilities globally

Executive Director, Big Data & Analytics

Manager

• Act as main driver to increase car audio take rates at all VW group brands
• Execution of marketing activities, presence at the customer and maintenance of customer contacts
• Responsibility for market analysis, observation and research in relation to car audio products
• Preparation of strategic concept descriptions and price indications as well as preparation of technical and commercial offers and conducting negotiations
• Interface with the customer's marketing department, identification of business potential and development of suitable measures to increase customer satisfaction, sales and market presence
• Build strong and sustainable relationships with the customer: OEM sales channels, Dealer management teams, Fleet business responsible and supporting functions focused on driving the revenue growth of Branded Audio and Connected Car products
• Develop a deep understanding of the customer specific go-to-market approach (post engineering and purchasing) globally and navigate their priorities to develop strategic plans that promote the joint agenda
• Act as the primary Harman contact and consultant with these teams for strategic joint growth plans, and building compelling joint- value proposition-oriented programs
• Drive idea generation internally for creating disruptive and out-of-the-box ideas to help deliver revenue growth. Own pitching these ideas to the customer and seeking approval and support for programs from the customer
• Work closely with the CAMs and Marketing to execute best-in-class plans, including dealer and customer programs.
• Monitor and report internally and to the customer on the success of programs
• Lead program management function for these programs. Develop detailed project plans, including campaign goals, disruptive ideas, action plans and success metrics for all the programs
• Reporting to the customer and CAM management at Director level

Take Rate Increase Manager

Strategy

• Provide strategic insight on consumer and professional audio market trends
• Partner with business and functional leaders to assess and evolve portfolio strategy across product categories
• Support strategic decisions through fact-based analysis and business case development
• Evaluate inorganic growth and partnerships, including evaluation of audio, software, services, and platform-based business models

Director, Corporate Strategy – Lifestyle Portfolio

General Counsel

• Independently conduct comprehensive preliminary legal research and perform detailed legal analysis as requested by the legal and compliance team and other departments
• Share critical updates on major laws and regulations across various countries
• Independently review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of complex global commercial agreements and amendments
• Actively collaborate with other L&C staff and organizational partners to develop, update, and maintain sophisticated templates, playbooks, and other critical documentation
• Independently draft and manage comprehensive global brand authorization letters for import and export purposes
• Act as the primary L&C point person, providing expert legal consultation services during the establishment of new plants or facilities in countries where L&C is not yet represented
• Independently manage intricate corporate governance matters, including but not limited to Annual General Meeting filings, officer changes, business scope changes, and legal address changes
• Engage and collaborate with external counsel as needed to address complex legal issues and support litigation matters
• Take the lead in gathering comprehensive input from each region when launching a global L&C policy or rule
• Handle and coordinate intricate cross-divisional matters as requested by other practice groups

Corporate Counsel, Legal Shared Services

Analyst, People Systems – Analytics

• Stakeholders Management for AI projects and deliverables from paper to product.
• Be able communicate complex, difficult concepts , solutions to facilitate management review and approval.
• Manage contractors and consultants: Manage contractors’ deliverables for project relates milestones.
• Provide long term service strategies proposal for AI- Automation initiatives.
• Design and implement: AI solutions using MS AI Studio, Azure OpenAI, and other tools to automate and enhance business processes within enterprise apps (E.g. Outsystems) and SAP ERP systems like S4 Hana, Ariba or other ones like Supplyon, Ivalua etc.
• Develop: Intelligent process automation solutions, including document processing, natural language interaction, and predictive analytics.
• Collaborate with data architects: Align AI solutions with enterprise data architecture and governance standards.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with stakeholders, peers and cross functional resources to identify and prioritize AI-driven automation and enhancement opportunities based on key business objectives.
• Review existing Landscape: Assess existing data landscapes to identify opportunities for AI-driven use cases leveraging well-structured data.
• Quality Assurance : Conduct testing, validation, and performance tuning to ensure robust and reliable AI-enabled applications.
• Training: Provide training and knowledge sharing to business and technical users on AI capabilities and best practices.
• Documentation: Documenting system architecture of solutions or technical application landscape.

Principal Engineer, AI-Automation

Attorney

• Support strategic Legal & Compliance initiatives aligned with departmental goals and the Legal & Compliance strategic plan.
• Manage strategic projects end-to-end, including planning, execution, stakeholder communication, and delivery.
• Collaborate across Legal & Compliance, DigITal, Procurement, Finance, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and adoption.
• Select, implement and maintain global Legal & Compliance technologies aligned with business objectives.
• Lead or manage Legal & Compliance technology initiatives, including implementation, optimization, governance, and user adoption.
• Analyze operational and performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.

Legal Operations Specialist

Marketing

• Develop global category and portfolio strategies, identifying “big bet” growth opportunities through robust segmentation, market analysis, and strategic frameworks.
• Guide strategic planning cycles, recommending targets, KPIs, brand roles, and budget allocations across categories, brands, and products.
• Lead the creation of long-term category strategies that are adaptable to regional market dynamics and consumer needs.
• Act as a trusted business partner to regional Sales and Marketing teams, integrating commercial strategies and market insights into a coherent global marketing strategy.
• Ensure alignment between regional and global marketing strategies and their connection to Harman’s enterprise strategy.
• Partner with regional marketing teams to translate global strategies into qualitative and quantitative objectives and initiatives.
• Support analyzing and drive distilling the market forces that are impacting the category today and tomorrow.
• Identify opportunities that will grow the category or enable growth in the category and manage category development through tools, processes, and templates.
• Assess the attractiveness and attainability of category growth opportunities and feed category growth story and growth opportunities into the BU roadmap.
• Own creation of opportunity blueprint required to realize the opportunity across the marketing mix, informing Category Strategy and HTW strategy.
• Collaborate with brand teams on strategic initiatives by informing about market enablers and barriers and competitive forces and brand growth plan and campaigns.
• Collaborate with regional category & marketing planning to tailor category strategies to local market conditions and ensure fit-for-purpose execution.
• Represent Marketing in the GTM triangle in early phases of GTM process.
• Support HTW draft with category and consumer insights.
• Collaborate with GTM team on finalizing HTW strategy and product and pitch deck.
• Design and implement a recommendation framework for global targets and KPIs based on market attractiveness and cost of playing.
• Co-manage regional marketing investment balance with regional leaders to optimize long-term success.
• Enable regional GMs and marketing leads to prioritize key business challenges and opportunities, driving efficient resource allocation.
• Contribute to annual marketing planning cycles, ensuring strategies are fact-based, investment-optimized, and aligned across global and regional teams.
• Ensure consistent execution and integration of category and portfolio strategies across all touchpoints.

Group Marketing Strategy Manager

Recruitment

• Serve as a key recruiter supporting multiple client groups.
• Advise the business on talent availability in the market and create sourcing strategies based on external market data.
• Pro-actively identify qualified candidates through multiple sources, including employee referrals, social networking sites, alumni, internal transfers, networking, etc.
• Partner with hiring managers to develop and implement plans for sourcing and recruiting strategies.
• Provide regular updates to hiring managers, HR business partners, Talent Acquisition leaders and other stakeholders as appropriate on pipeline development and progress of candidates.
• Manage candidates through the entire interview and hiring process, from assessing candidate qualifications to negotiating offers and managing pre-employment requirements and onboarding.
• Creates clear and concise oral and written communications.
• Develops compelling and inspirational messages to tell the HARMAN talent story.
• Master the use of recruiting tools and technologies (Avature, Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, etc.) to remain at the forefront of talent acquisition.
• Integrate HARMAN’s brand strategy into all recruitment activities.
• Maintain all pertinent applicant and interview documentation and data in applicant tracking system (Avature).
• Proactively escalate complex recruitment challenges as needed.
• Share competitive market intelligence with hiring managers and recruiting team.
• Recommend and implement improvements to recruitment processes.
• Participate in global and regional recruiting projects as needed.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Operations

• Lead, manage and develop a team of ~50 team members around the region with P&L responsibility to include sales, gross margin, marketing, expense and EBITDA results
• Lead and develop the revenue generation of the region including wholesale and distribution development
• Provide overall leadership, developing and implementing a clear vision, strategy and plan for the regional sales and GTM organization in line with Sound United’s go to-market strategy
• Identify and implement new business opportunities and growth strategies for the product portfolio and solutions around the region
• Work with the product team on roadmap development to ensure the regional requirements are being met
• Collaborate closely with Sound United senior management globally to ensure alignment with global business objectives
• Work with the regional marketing organization to provide best in class marketing programs and synergies with commercial operations that drive sell out across the Sound United European dealer base
• Build and strategically foster relationships with regional leads to gain a clear understanding of the businesses, requirements and objectives
• Develop annual sales, marketing, margin and EBITDA budgets for EU region while driving accountability for results
• Review and report on key sales metrics including market share, sales, and gross margins by brand and country
• Evaluate the effectiveness of sales—methods, costs and results and take corrective action to drive improved productivity and EBITDA
• Make preparations in strategic markets for new product launches as rolled out by brand
• Represent Sound United at regional trade exhibitions, events, and seminars