Technology Manager; BU Integration

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Corporate

We're a global, multi-disciplinary team that's putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Corporate, you are integral to our company's award-winning success.

• Enrich your managerial and organizational talents - from finance, quality, and supply chain to human resources, IT, sales, and strategy
• Augment your comprehensive skillset with expert training across decision‑making, change management, leadership, and business development
• Obtain 360‑degree support throughout your career life cycle, from early‑stage to seasoned leader

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. You will manage the technology planning process
, capturing product requirements from various BUs (consumer, automotive, professional) and mapping them to the Intelligent Audio portfolio. This includes maintaining an integrated technology roadmap that shows when and how new AI/DSP features will land in products and coordinating efforts so that research delivers the "right technology at the right time" for the BUs. Additionally, you will handle outward communication and education – evangelizing Intelligent Audio capabilities to product teams and customers, and bringing feedback back to the R&D team.

Think of this role as part product manager, part program manager for the Intelligent Audio initiatives, with a focus on cross‑organizational alignment. Success means no gap between what the technology team is building and what the product teams need – leading to smoother product integrations and maximum business impact.

• Roadmap Alignment: Develop and maintain a unified roadmap that links Intelligent Audio technology deliveries with product release schedules across multiple divisions. Work with each BU's product managers and technical leads to understand their upcoming product plans and feature needs. Ensure that the Intelligent Audio team's project timelines and milestones are aligned to these needs (or communicate adjustments as needed to stakeholders).

• Requirements Gathering: Proactively gather detailed requirements from business units for intelligent audio features – e.g. performance targets, platform constraints, certification needs, user experience goals. Translate these into technical requirements or feature definitions for the R&D team. Regularly update the R&D team on changing market or product priorities so that research focus can adjust in a timely manner.

• Integration Planning: Coordinate the integration of new technologies into BU product development
  . For each new feature (say an adaptive EQ or a machine‑learning noise canceller ready for productization), work out with the BU when and how it will be integrated: which product program will pick it up, what integration support is needed, what testing will be done. Essentially manage the "hand-off" from research to product teams to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

• Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the evangelist for Intelligent Audio within the company and to key external partners. Create presentations, demos, and documentation to educate BU teams (product management, engineering, sales) on the capabilities and benefits of the latest intelligent audio innovations. Equally, communicate the business context back to the R&D team – why certain features matter, what end‑user problem we're solving – to guide development.

• Program Management: Oversee cross‑team initiatives that involve Intelligent Audio tech. For example, if a particular feature requires contributions from the cloud team and the embedded team, facilitate those collaborations. Track progress of technology‑related deliverables in product programs and intervene to resolve blockers (resource issues, technical hurdles, priority conflicts) by working with leadership.

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