Program Manager

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.

•    Strong handson experience on the agile and scrum concepts.
•    Has applied the real scrum concepts to make the project agile and has successfully handled multiple scrum teams.
•    Practical thinking and a good attitude to handle difficult situations
•    Good communications skills

1.    Having decent years of experience in handling Scrum teams. Currently he is handling 4 teams. 
2.    Practical experience and knowledge is good. Able to answer most of the questions
3.    Seems to be honest in his work – based on the answers and response provided during interview.
4.    Have sound knowledge on Scrum practices

•    Ensuring that engineering department goals, metrics and objectives are met
•    Establish and audit standardized tools and templates to use when leading cross functional team meetings
•    Create and manage schedules based on approved project scope
•    Control project scope and delivery variance
•    End-to-end project management for both software and hardware based projects up to and including building products in a factory
•    Help drive the sharing of best practices across the project management team
•    Managing internal and external resources
•    Communication with senior management as well as with the team
•    Continuously evaluate the new product design, development, and release processes and suggest improvements to reduce product cycle times
•    Create project plans including schedule creation, gathering development cost estimates, and target cost information
•    Identify risks in the project schedules and assist in the creation of mitigation plans
•    Ensure that the VPD DPT corporate project tracking tool is kept up to date
•    Manage the gaps between functions to guide projects though the phase gated development process up to and including the launch to Sales
•    Some travel may be required

•    Minimum Bachelors in Engineering or related discipline
•    3+ yrs of Project Management experience in an engineering or new product development environment
•    3+ yrs of experience presenting to Senior Management
•    Experience with waterfall, iterative and agile design methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:
•    PMP or equivalent certification preferred
•    Experience working with diverse teams in multiple sites
•    Expertise in Project Management Methodologies
•    Understanding of CMM or CMMi best practices
•    Excellent leadership skills
•    Detail oriented with good time management and multitasking skills
•    Excellent people skills including coaching and mentoring
•    Excellent interpersonal skills required to negotiate priority with those that do not report to them
•    Excellent written and oral communication skills both up and down the organizational chain
•    Must be a self-starter, achieving great results with minimum supervision
•    Must have a history of taking on and meeting challenging objectives
•    Experienced with standard project management tools such as Microsoft Project
•    Prior Experience of successfully managing New Product Development projects in the role of project manager
•    Technical background with an understanding of what it takes to complete embedded system designs

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.