Ux Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership experience in UX Research, UX Strategy, Human-Centered Design, Product Strategy, or a related discipline, with a track record of influencing product and portfolio decisions.
• Track record of translating human needs, market signals, technology shifts, and business priorities into differentiated experiences across hardware, software, AI, multimodal interaction, and connected services.
• Deep expertise in mixed-method UX research, behavioral research, human factors, strategic foresight, concept validation, and usability evaluation, and ability to turn evidence into decisive product strategy.
• Practical experience in automotive UX research and strategy and working with global automotive OEMs to align user experience with brand, vehicle segments, and product-development constraints.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to create clarity in ambiguity and align senior stakeholders across a global organization.
• Practical experience in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Human Factors, Design, Engineering, Business, Strategy, or related disciplines.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
• Ability to work in a complex, ambiguous, and dynamic environment.
• Successful completion of a post-offer background investigation and drug screen.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in mobility, consumer electronics, digital ecosystems, or other complex connected-product environments.
• Experience with AI-enabled products, ecosystem platforms, or cross-product experience orchestration.
• PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Human Factors, Behavioral Science, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Own UX Research & Strategy for HARMAN Automotive and set the consumer-led experience vision and research agenda across the portfolio.
• Make user evidence the starting point of UX-first product development; translate consumer needs, market and technology trends, OEM brand intent, vehicle-segment targets, and automotive constraints into opportunity spaces, experience principles, UX targets, and measurable success criteria.
• Set direction for identifying and defining future product experiences across cockpit, audio, connectivity, and driver assistance, in and beyond the car, so products form a coherent in-cabin experience.
• Orchestrate evidence-based portfolio decisions and ensure desirability, usability, trust, and relevance are validated with consumers and OEMs.
• Build a feedback loop from research and competitive benchmarking through concepts, demonstrators, and customer engagements into product and portfolio roadmaps.
• Partner with Product and Portfolio Management, Automotive Design, and Engineering to turn validated experiences into product definitions, roadmap priorities, and differentiated OEM value propositions.
• Establish scalable research and strategy methods, experience frameworks, and quality standards.
• Lead and coach a high-performing team focused on business value.

Benefits

• Employee discounts on HARMAN and Samsung products, including JBL, Harman / Kardon, and AKG.
• Learning and development opportunities through HARMAN University programs.
• Wellness benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Access to the HARMAN campus fitness center and cafeteria, where available.
• Hybrid work environment, with most office-based roles onsite three days a week.
• Benefits and perks may include paid vacation and holidays, paid sick leave, volunteer leave, paid bonding and caregiver leave, medical, dental, and vision plans, fertility support and adoption assistance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan with employer match, short- and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment supporting professional and personal development.