Senior Principal SDV Digital Product Portfolio Strategist

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and its a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of power that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize the joy and freedom of mobility by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a zero environmental footprint.

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Hondas, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

• The SDV Strategist is responsible for defining, shaping, and advancing the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) value strategy for Honda in the North American market, with a strong customercentric focus on delivering differentiated digital experiences aligned to Hondas business strategy and user needs.
• This role proposes inputs to the SDV value north star by translating customer insights, market trends, and competitive intelligence into a clear, prioritized, and executable digital product roadmap, aligned with Hondas global technology direction, architecture readiness, and North American market expectations.
• The SDV Strategist influences the direction for how to compete in the future SDV landscape, which includes the full ecosystem of digital products and enabling electrical architecture, AD/ADAS technologies, and infotainment hardware.
• The SDV Strategist also owns the continuous ideation portfolio for future SDV product concepts, providing strategic judgment on concept prioritization, roadmap alignment, and investment timing. This includes identifying capability and technology gaps and directing investigation to Research flow when nearterm solutions do not exist.

Key Accountabilities

• Competitive SDV Value Strategy & Definition:

• Define and maintain NA SDV value proposition for near and long-term SDV competitiveness

• Translate Future Competitiveness insights into SDV strategy assessments and recommendations.

• Support SDV Strategy Report leader by interpreting corporate business and product strategy to SDV

• Define critical information for how to compete in the future and feed to SDV Strategy Report any changing market needs.

• Future Digital Product Roadmap Creation:

• Define NA SDV roadmap proposal for overall ecosystem of architecture/hardware enablement aligned digital product proposal, with support from SDV Strategy Chief Engineer

• Prioritize SDV value features based on customer impact, electrical architecture readiness, and business value.

• Ensure roadmap alignment with Honda global strategies while optimizing NA market expectations

• Ideation Portfolio Management:

• Own the SDV Ideation Portfolio, defining the process for filtering, classifying, and maintaining the ideation backlog

• Correlate the prioritization process with Global and Regional Honda stakeholders

• Define evaluation criteria, prioritization framework, and success metrics for ideation outcomes

• Serve as a strategic advisor on business value themes (such as XDR)

• Propose POC (proof of concept) selection for internal demonstrations (such as Tech Day)

• Research & Technology Gap Definition:

• Identify cross-functional technology, capability, and know-how gaps required to achieve the SDV roadmap (which may include electrical E&E architecture, AD/ADAS technologies, infotainment hardware, etc.)

• Direct these concepts into appropriate flow of the Research Portfolio, ensuring traceability from roadmap proposal to research completion

• Influence cross-functional alignment across architecture, software, and feature development organizations to clarify future capability needs

• Mentoring Research Chief in Research Portfolio execution and management

• Strategic Plan to Development Execution Transition:

• Lead the transition of approved SDV strategy and roadmap concepts to the Digital Product LPL for development and market execution

• Ensure appropriate business approval, customer value validation, and strategic intent are confirmed prior to move to development backlog

• Partner with Digital Product LPL to prioritize development roadmaps and application plans while maintaining strategic alignment

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• A Bachelors level degree or diploma in the field of Engineering / Technology (preferably in a STEM field of study).

• Minimum Experience:

• At least 10 years of product development and/or strategy implementation experience

• Prior experience with vehicle software-developed features

• Demonstrated leadership of implementing a strategic vision to execution

• Other Job-Specific Skills

• Skilled at cross-functional leadership, building consensus, and collaborating strategic outcomes

• Working knowledge of SDV, digital product, AD/ADAS, E&E architecture, and infotainment technologies.

• Ability to visualize and forecast future strategy needs and prioritize conflicting requirements

• Communication and report delivery to Executives and Chief Engineer

Workstyle

• This is an onsite job. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.

Visa sponsorship issues

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

What differentiates Honda and makes us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued learning
• Training and Development Programs

Additional Offerings:

• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.