Engineer, Requirement and Change Management

About the Position

Engineer, Requirement and Change Management

General Information

• Location: Ariake - Tokyo, Japan
• Job Family: Engineering
• Worker Type: Regular - Permanent
• Pay Rate Type: Salary
• Job ID: R-45852-2025

About the Role

This role focuses on Requirement Management and Change Management for automotive electronic systems including in-vehicle audio systems, cockpit domain controllers, and telematics or connectivity ECUs delivered to Japanese OEM customers.

The primary responsibility is to ensure the correct delivery of all requirements to the end product. It includes collecting, structuring, and monitoring stakeholder requirements during the complete lifecycle processes, managing and reporting risks toward requirement delivery to the customer. This position will ensure data maintenance in the Requirements Management tools, and will measure and report the process performance based on defined KPIs. This position will be the bridge between the customer and internal engineering teams for the process and structure of requirements.

This position will report to the requirement department head from an organizational perspective.

In addition, this role will also manage all Change requests issued from the customer and internally. It mainly includes managing the change request process, ensuring all project stakeholders deliver the necessary input to progress on the Change request process.

Responsibilities

Customer Interface

• Ensure availability of customer requirements specifications
• Agree on the requirement management process, especially the requirement agreement process
• Ensure availability of referenced documents (GCSR, ISOs, Norms, Standards,...) and handling
• Clarify any unclear change request assumptions, negotiate the reply deadline

Requirement Management

• Ensure availability of customer requirement specifications for all project stakeholders in the defined requirements tool
• Manage the requirement process flow, lead the requirement stakeholder team to build the requirement schedule to ensure delivery
• Distribute customer requirements to project stakeholders (e.g. Functional Owner, Project Manager) for analysis and derivation of system requirements
• Exchange official evaluation results (DOORS / DNG) to the customer
• Lead the engineering team to ensure agreement of requirement is completed for customer delivery
• Ensure data maintenance in the Requirements Management tools
• Create the requirements specification baselines
• Escalate any risk toward the requirement management to high-level project stakeholders based on KPIs data

Change Management

• Serve as the Change Request process owner and ensure customer requirements are delivered through a tailored process
• Request technical analysis and effort estimation for requirements from the Engineering Team
• Review and verify quotations from a requirements/system perspective
• Visualize overall CR status and share KPI updates with relevant stakeholders

Tracking and Monitoring

• Measure and report the process performance based on defined KPIs
• Track and report missing analysis information
• Track and report completeness of traceability/linking
• Track and report completeness of requirement agreement with customer

Requirements

What You Must Have

• Strong leadership skills, proactive attitude, and a customer-focused mindset
• Intolerance toward vagueness
• Ability to surface risks early and escalate them with clear context, impact, and next steps, rather than waiting for issues to materialize
• Displays a governance-oriented mindset, respecting defined processes, decision ownership, escalation paths, and compliance requirements
• Communicates effectively at customer and senior stakeholder level, not limited to technical or execution discussions
• Demonstrates decision-driving behavior, taking accountability to move topics to clear outcomes rather than remaining at the analysis level
• Ability to read and interpret customer specifications and proactively clarify ambiguities instead of passing them downstream
• Fluent communication skills in English and Japanese
• Basic knowledge of requirements management logic
• 5 Years of experience working with or for a Japanese automotive supplier / carmaker

What You May Have

• Knowledge of Requirements Management Tool “Doors Next Generation”, “DOORS”, and Doors exchange mechanism
• Knowledge of RFI/RFQ process
• Knowledge of process models (e.g. Automotive SPICE®)
• Configuration management rules and tools especially baselining

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 25%, domestic and international travel
• Be willing to work in an office, client-site, home office
• Successfully complete a background investigation/Aptitude Test as a condition of employment

We Offer

• An authentic diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization
• Work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry
• Fast-paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible, and exciting work environments
• Access to our own HARMAN University with regular updates on new technologies and trends through Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent
• Competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs

About the Company

HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology

Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.

Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our 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, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners, and each other.

If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!

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