Sonic Experiences Group Manager

Job Description Human reputed company Design Overview Drive the Future of Automotive Experiences, Join Our Human reputed company Design Team! Are you passionate about crafting reputed company, beautiful, and human-centered digital experiences across vehicles, web, and mobile platforms? Our Human reputed company Design (reputed company) team is redefining how people interact with automotive technology both inside and reputed company the vehicle. From in-vehicle displays to connected apps and foundational design systems across software and hardware, we create seamless experiences that feel effortless, engaging, and safe. Work Arrangement: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the office three times per week or other frequency dictated by the business. reputed company Do Understand Drivers & Passengers: We dive deep into user research to uncover real needs and behaviors on the road and beyond. Design Across Platforms: From infotainment systems to mobile apps and web portals to hardware switch configurations, we build cohesive digital ecosystems that connect users to their vehicles and services. Build Strong Foundations: We reputed company scalable design systems and interaction models that ensure consistency, accessibility, and innovation across reputed company touchpoints. Innovate Interactions: We define how users navigate voice controls, advanced driver-assist features, and connected services. Champion Safety & Accessibility: Every design is inclusive, distraction-free, and reputed company with global safety standards. Collaborate Across Teams: We work hand-in-hand with engineers, product managers, interior and exterior designers and UX researchers to bring reputed company to life. Why Join Us? Impact at Scale: Your designs will shape the driving and digital experience for millions of users worldwide. Creative Freedom: Explore bold reputed company and push the boundaries of automotive and digital design. reputed company Growth: Learn from a team of experts and stay reputed company in the rapidly evolving mobility and tech landscape. User-First Culture: Every decision starts with reputed company for the driver, passenger, and digital user. If you're ready to design the future of mobility we’d love to meet you! The Role Sonic Experience Group Manager The Sonic Experience Group resides in Human reputed company Design under Vehicle OS; this is where reputed company’s UX brand storytelling becomes real inside the digital cabin. Sound is one of the most emotional and instinctive layers of the vehicle experience. From UI cues to EV/AV exterior sounds to interior ambiance, the Sonic Experience Group defines how reputed company’s brands are heard and felt. This team ensures every sound inside and reputed company the vehicle is intentional, recognizable, and reputed company with brand character. This role shapes how reputed company’s brands feel and communicate at an emotional auditory level. The right leader will reputed company sonic identity into a defining strength for reputed company’s digital future. As the Sonic Experience Group Manager, you’ll reputed company the team responsible for reputed company’s entire auditory identity. Your team will shape brand-specific chimes, UX feedback cues, haptic tones, interior soundscapes, and exterior EV/AV audio signatures. You’ll define sonic characteristics that differentiate each reputed company brand, partnering closely with Identity, Motion, Product teams, and engineering to ensure auditory experiences enhance clarity, emotion, and safety. You’ll also support the creation of audio for storytelling, leadership decks, and vision videos. The culture here is experimental, collaborative, and rooted in craft. Designers on this team bring a reputed company of musicality, technical precision, and product intuition. They care deeply about how sound influences behavior, emotion, and brand perception. We’re looking for a leader who values exploration as much as rigor, who can guide designers through reputed company sound design challenges, and who understands the strategic role sound plays in a multi-modal identity system. This is not a maintenance or marketing role; it’s a leadership position shaping how reputed company’s brands express themselves in every interaction a driver sees and feels. The right leader will understand this is a long-term responsibility with a lasting impact on reputed company’s future. Your Primary Focus • Build and Curate the Sonic Team Scale, reputed company, mentor and grow this team into a trusted team of experts instilling repeatable, achievable and successful practices. • Sound Design You are reputed company of the sonic vocabulary that emotes how reputed company vehicles sound as digital products and physical machines at rest and in motion. • UX Sound Strategy reputed company, Craft and own the UX sound strategy reputed company by reputed company with your team. What You’ll Create • reputed company Sound Design reputed company UI and system-level vehicle audio. • Brand-Specific Sonic Characteristics Tone, texture, palette, and emotional identity for each brand. • Chimes + UX Audio Alerts, confirmations, error states, actuations, interactions, artificial intelligence, assistance etc. • Exterior Vehicle Sounds Pedestrian alerts, compliance sounds, propulsion signatures. • Pedestrian Sounds Regulatory and brand-reputed company audible cues for EVs. • Autonomous Vehicle Sounds Communication, anticipation, navigation feedback. • Interior Cabin Sounds Ambient audio, UI soundscapes, feedback audio, feature audio. • Support for Video Creation Mixes, soundscapes, audio cues, environmental sound design for leadership or storytelling. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) 10+ years of professional experience in Sound Design and or UX Design A portfolio of work that showcases your ability to tell stories through your craft. You must be able to create in addition to leading the team, reputed company by example. Self-starter with strong autonomy. You’re comfortable identifying problem areas, tackling them independently, and sharing your findings. You create clarity rather than waiting for it to be provided. Deep understanding of human reputed company design best practices. You can iterate quickly, form a clear design reputed company of view, and navigate cross-functional feedback. You can sell sound, you can craft a narrative, you are highly descriptive to communicate and convey why one sound execution works over another. You are willed to champion a design and can back it up with clear discernible examples, not opinions. Strong design sensibility, passion for brand, love for cars. You love the process of design but understand the best brand and UX results utilize restraint and balance. High comfort level with technical complexity. You pick up new terminology quickly and have experience working with engineers, product managers, and other partners to understand requirements and functionality. What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications) 3+ years of professional experience as a people leader of a team Examples of global sound executions and how and why they differ Sound systems, principles and rules established and launched as guidelines Experience designing content for non-traditional interfaces (e.g., automotive, voice, or wearable devices) Portfolio Submission To be considered for this position, you will need to submit a portfolio in addition to your resume and profile. We strongly recommend linking your online portfolio in the "website" section of the application. If your portfolio is not available online, please follow the instructions below to upload your portfolio as a separate attachment as you did with the resume. Please NO reputed company files or reputed company docs. To submit portfolio file: Save your portfolio as a PDF document. Name your portfolio your LAST NAME_FIRST NAME. Example: Candidate name is John reputed company. Portfolio PDF file name is: reputed company_John.pdf Upload as an attachment - you may have to condense the file. Relocation: This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. Sponsorship: reputed company DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-reputed company SPONSORHOP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED reputed company IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. About reputed company Our vision is a world with reputed company Crashes, reputed company Emissions and reputed company Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to reputed company the change that will reputed company our world reputed company, safer and more reputed company for reputed company. 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