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About the Role
As a UX/UI Design Manager, you will lead UX/UI design activities across multiple automotive product areas and platforms for a key Japanese OEM partner, working primarily on-site in Tokyo. This role spans a broad range of Harman automotive UX/UI design solutions, adapting to customer needs, programs, and divisions. You will guide UX/UI direction from concept through production, ensuring clarity, usability, and quality while aligning design intent with software development, engineering constraints, and delivery timelines. Success requires strong hands-on design leadership, excellent communication, and deep collaboration with OEM stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners. Operating fluently in Japanese and English, understanding Japanese OEM culture, and proactively aligning a global stakeholder network are critical.
Responsibilities
- Lead UX/UI design across diverse automotive programs and Harman product domains, adapting design solutions based on OEM requirements, platform constraints, and project scope.
- Serve as the primary UX/UI design interface for the Japanese OEM, working extensively on-site, conducting design discussions, workshops, and reviews in Japanese.
- Own UX/UI direction across the full development lifecycle, from early vision and concept definition to series-production support and implementation alignment.
- Work closely with software development, engineering, and product teams to ensure UX/UI concepts are technically feasible, clearly specified, and correctly implemented.
- Collaborate actively with global Harman teams, including design, development, and product colleagues in Japan, China, and India, ensuring clear communication, transparency, and smooth cross-region handover.
- Provide clear, structured, and proactive design communication and status updates to customers and internal stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of goals, progress, risks, and decisions.
- Lead, mentor, and support UX/UI designers by setting direction, reviewing work, providing feedback, and fostering strong collaboration across distributed teams.
- Create, review, and communicate UX/UI concepts, flows, wireframes, specifications, and high-fidelity designs using Figma as the primary design tool.
- Support and lead customer alignment through on-site visits, design workshops, joint reviews, and co-creation sessions.
- Coordinate and align with third-party partners, agencies, and suppliers where required, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with Harman and OEM expectations.
- Drive usability, clarity, and experience quality by applying feedback from customer reviews, internal evaluations, and testing activities.
- Balance creative ambition with real-world automotive constraints, demonstrating strong judgment when navigating trade-offs between UX quality, technical limitations, timelines, and customer requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of professional UX/UI design experience, including responsibility for leading UX/UI work across complex digital or embedded systems; experience managing or mentoring designers is strongly preferred.
- Fluent Japanese (business-level) with strong understanding of Japanese corporate and OEM working culture.
- Fluent English (working level) for daily collaboration with global Harman teams and stakeholders.
- Proven experience working directly with Japanese OEMs in automotive or embedded environments; this is a key requirement for the role.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX/UI work across varying scopes, showing clear thinking, user-centered design, and production-ready execution.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma for UX/UI design, collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
- Solid experience working closely with software development and engineering teams, ensuring alignment between UX/UI intent and technical implementation.
- Excellent communication skills, with a strong ability to align, coordinate, and regularly update customers and internal stakeholders.
- Experience working with distributed and international teams, including collaboration with colleagues in US, China and India.
- Strong soft skills, including stakeholder management, cultural sensitivity, structured problem-solving, and calm, pragmatic leadership in complex environments.
- Ability and willingness to work on-site in Tokyo Ariake with regular presence at the OEM location.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%, domestically and internationally, as required by projects and customer needs.
- Strong ability to work in a global, cross-cultural environment, bridging design, development, and customer perspectives.
- Eligibility to work in Japan and comply with all local employment, compliance, and background screening requirements.
- Availability for short-notice on-site support when required by program or customer needs.
- Valid driving license and clean driving record where customer or Harman vehicle use is required.
Skills
- UX/UI Design
- Interaction Design
- Industrial Design
- Figma
- Stakeholder Management
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Problem-Solving
- Leadership
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Design Systems
- Embedded Systems Design
- Automotive UX/UI
- Motion Design
- System Behavior Design
- Unity
- Real-time Visualization
Location
- Ariake - Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- Regular - Permanent
- On-site
Experience Level
- P4
- 7+ years of professional UX/UI design experience
- Experience managing or mentoring designers is strongly preferred
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, or a related discipline.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation/benefit programs
- Recognition programs
- HARMAN University with regular updates on new technologies and trends
- Self Learning and Development Trainings
- Opportunities for training, development, and continuing education
About the Company
- HARMAN Automotive is a global, multi-disciplinary team that puts the innovative power of technology to work and transforms tomorrow.
- HARMAN is a company that has been amplifying the sense of sound since the 1920s, and today, that legacy endures with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.
- Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, HARMAN creates innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences.
- HARMAN's renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers.
- HARMAN's digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands.
- HARMAN markets its award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel.
- HARMAN sets itself apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for its customers, partners, and employees.
Equal Opportunity
- HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered.
- HARMAN encourages sharing ideas, voicing distinct perspectives, and bringing one's whole self to work within a support-minded culture that celebrates uniqueness.
- HARMAN offers added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education.
- HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.
- HARMAN strives to hire the best qualified candidates and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse marketplaces and communities of its global colleagues and customers.
- 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.
- HARMAN attracts, hires, and develops employees based on merit, qualifications and job-related performance.
- HARMAN is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
- Requests for assistance or accommodation during the application process will be considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.