Best N.A. Audio Manufacturers to Work For?

What is your area of expertise?
Not that many audio companies are overly high-tech. I would think long and hard about what you are passionate about. People put down Bose, but their R&D budget is likely many time other companies discussed here. For companies (within companies) like Harman, a good portion of advanced R&D is for things like automotive.

Part of the problem will be convincing someone I can actually help them. I’m a social psychologist, so skill wise I’m an expert at human testing, experimentation, data collection, and data analysis. As part of the gig, I’m also a professional speaker, technical writer, and manager. Incidentally, I can solder and do computer programming.

Content wise, I’m an expert on advertising, attitudes and persuasion, & judgement and decision making. I’ve published in all these areas and have had over $1 million in grants to study the processes. Have also published research on the evolutionary function of music (and have been interviewed by national geographic about the work).

Really just trying to translate all this skill and knowledge into a new career in the industry. Would love to help someone who’s making world leading equipment with their mission.

I think the problem most high-end audio companies have is in the "customer relation", or to be more specific, it's the connection between the "technology" and the final "end user experience".  No matter how fancy the technology, it only matters if the end users will derive some form of pleasure from the said "technology".  Most posters in this forum is not representative of the "masses" and most people don't really care for the "technologies", at least not the same way as most posters here.    

And to be honest about it, most of the technologies are more or less, nowaday, are fairly well understood.  Not much really are ground-breaking, so to speak.  The companies that are really successful are those, interestingly enough, who know how to market their products, not those with the most fancy technologies because most end users can't relate to them anyway - I mean what the hell is "time-phase coherent anyway"?  Who the hell the average user can tell what the hell it is?.

Sorry for some of the blunt languages.  But it seems like you're in a career path in which you will be in a lot of customer relation situations, so you're probably no stranger in "blunt language" :-)  But at the very least, regardless of one's background, some understanding of the technologies would help.  

I used to be in Bose, it didn’t work out for me, because I found out that I'm more into marine than an audio sphere. But I still don't have a job, so I might come back.

• "Content wise, I’m an expert on advertising, attitudes and persuasion, & judgement and decision making."

You might consider seeking out a job on the sales end of things.

Frank

Unless you have years of audio sales experience  good luck with that.

To be honest, many companies definitely would want to work with you. That's weird you weren't able to find a job in the sea, maybe the problem is that you weren't looking in the right place? The best thing you can do is to broaden your horizons, so good luck!

That is amazing that at such an early age you are thinking about your future and job. A lot of graduates just chilling during this period, but not you and that is why I believe that you will have an exciting future. As for the job, I believe that it will be better for you to join a big company because of their working conditions and the opportunity to work on interesting projects. You can check some vacancies on this website and that is the best place to connect with them, as I think.

Pretty weird that the "sea faring/marine job bots" got a hold of this old thread.  I do appreciate the real responses (and PMs) though.