Harman

About the Role

Platforming is a strategic decision to unify experience across Harman products. This position will be responsible for assisting platform strategy definition and driving and implementing platform strategies across product categories and brands. 

He/She plans for and executes a wide range of initiatives across business units, regions, functional teams and external partners. He/She creates with the involvement of Director, Product & Platform Planning for all product categories platform strategy implementing.

Your Team

The position will report to Director, Product & Platform Planning

What You Will Do

• Explore opportunity of new technology adoption, manage and develop internal patent pool, drive innovative concept study for next generation platform.
• Assist in researching market-winning solutions to help elevate the user experiences to ensure differentiate from competitors.
• Competitive benchmark to work with different business unit to come up with solution for platform implementing.
• Assist in structural analysis to evaluate feasibility, profitability, and practicality of product concepts.
• Responsible to implement platform strategy/roadmaps across product categories and brands through deeply communication with cross functional teams.
• Manage a consistent means of communicating key strategy and roadmap documents.  Be the ambassador within Harman and external parties to promote the platform.
• Assure adequate market launch support & being the change requester of platform implementing.
• Manage conflicts and priorities to achieve platform strategy/roadmaps deployment. Identify risks and potential issues setting mitigations and action plans.
• Assure compliance to Process, Procedures, and use of Tools and Methods including escalation.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, or other Marketing-related disciplines,
• At least 6+ years of consumer electronics product management experience, preferrable with App exposure,
• Ability to work effectively within a matrix environment, excel in communication with various departments,
• Experience in product management and marketing
• Strong Technical competence to influence and maximize product architecture decisions

What is Nice to Have

• Self-starter, goal oriented and result driven
• Strong team player
• Customer focus
• Deadline oriented and able to work under pressure
• Self-awareness, willing to learn and open to changes

What Makes You Eligible

• Willingness to travel 10% of the time
• Willingness to work in an office in Shenzhen
• Willingness to submit to a background screen and a drug test.

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment.
• 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
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development