Sr. Principal Researcher (UX), EV Charging Solutions Business (IC1/CL6)

at  Honda

WHAT MAKES A HONDA, IS WHO MAKES A HONDA

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s 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 Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

WHAT MAKES A HONDA, IS WHO MAKES A HONDA

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s 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 which 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 Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

REQUIRED WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 10 years at a new technology research and implementation, auto industry experience required
• Experience in new product development
• Experience in EV charging business and technology
• Experience in developing financial and business models, financial forecasts, negotiating business terms and conditions, contracts, and business administration preferred
• Experience in a coordination role
• Experience in drafting project plans and evaluating technology providers required, with examples of success preferred

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• MBA preferred, but not required

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Create and adjust detailed complex plans/schedules
• Develop and present complex proposals for evaluation to executives
• Strong presentation skills
• High degree of negotiation & compromise
• Regional network inside AHM, HDMA, and experience with GO collaboration

• Lead strategic and consumer research to uncover customer insights and user needs for new and improved products and services to enable more seamless charging experiences and expansion of energy products. This involves analyzing existing products and user experiences, identifying areas of improvement, uncovering the optimal experiences, and refining existing ones.
• Business Strategy Development: Identify new potential markets and business opportunities, develop hypotheses for development team to pursue through POC activity in an agile framework for speed and rapid iterative learning, embracing fail early/fail often principles, and document learnings to contribute to future business development efforts.
• Work closely with various stakeholders in charging industry to develop products and services to enable more seamless charging experience. This involves analyzing existing user experiences, identifying area of improvement, designing new experiences, and refining existing ones.
• Communication: Act as a liaison with external research organizations and resources to perform market sensing. Synthesize the learnings and communicate broadly with management and throughout the company.