# Chief of Staff - Strategy & Business Planning Lead, Design to Operate Value Stream **Company**: HP Inc. **Location**: Spring, Texas **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $116,150 to $182,400 USD annually **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ExternalCareerSite/job/Spring-Texas-United-States-of-America/Chief-of-Staff---Strategy---Business-Planning-Lead--Design-to-Operate-Value-Stream_3170014?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7cc53cf1-52b ## Description HP's Design to Operate (D2O) Value Stream team drives end-to-end digital enablement and transformation across the processes, technology, and operating capabilities that support the journey from product design through operational execution. We are seeking a strategic, highly organized, and execution-oriented senior professional to serve as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for the Design to Operate Value Stream. This person will act as an operating partner to the VP, Head of D2O Value Stream, helping a 200+ person organization run with clarity, discipline, and speed while ensuring the team is well represented with senior leaders and cross-functional partners. The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator and executive communicator who can manage a continual flow of leadership requests, synthesize complex digital transformation work into crisp narratives, maintain financial and operational discipline, and drive coordination across leaders, workstreams, and peer Chief of Staff / business operations teams. This role will connect strategic planning, executive communications, organizational operations, and cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate brings sound judgment, discretion, strong business acumen, and the ability to turn complex transformation work into clear decisions, compelling narratives, and measurable results. **Key Responsibilities:** ### Strategic Partnership and Executive Effectiveness - Serve as a trusted advisor to the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, helping shape priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and advance the team's strategic agenda. - Translate leadership priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success. - Manage the flow of executive requests and emerging issues, ensuring the right matters receive leadership attention and timely follow-through. - Prepare the value stream leader for key meetings and decisions through briefings, stakeholder context, recommendations, and decision materials. - Represent the leader's priorities in designated forums and drive alignment and follow-through on leadership decisions. ### Executive Communications and Storytelling - Develop high-quality presentations and communications for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports. - Partner with value stream leaders and subject matter experts to translate process, technology, and operational work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP. - Ensure leadership communications consistently reflect the value stream's strategy, priorities, commitments, and impact. - Establish reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums that strengthen understanding of the team's work across HP. ### Operating Rhythm and Organizational Effectiveness - Own the team's leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, business reviews, progress checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites. - Drive the annual and quarterly planning, aligning goals, OKRs and owners are clear across the value stream. - Track progress against strategic commitments, surface risks and gaps, and work with leaders to resolve issues and maintain execution. - Coordinate internally facing initiatives that improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment. - Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers. ### Cross-Functional Alignment and Transformation - Serve as a central coordination point between the Design to Operate Value Stream team and partners across business functions, Digital, and the broader HP organization. - Support alignment across process owners, business stakeholders, and technology teams to advance end-to-end transformation. - Engage regularly with Chiefs of Staffs, strategy teams, and peer organizations across HP to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives. - Lead or coordinate high-priority special projects for Digital, especially initiatives that cut across multiple teams or require executive visibility. - Bring structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges. - Identify emerging issues and opportunities, develop recommendations, and mobilize stakeholders to drive action. **Requirements:** - 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field. - Demonstrated ability to partner with senior executives, exercise independent judgment, and handle sensitive information with discretion. - Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to create clear, concise, visually compelling presentations and decision materials. - Strong strategic thinking and execution skills, with a track record of turning broad objectives into coordinated plans and measurable results. - Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including experience with budgets, resource planning, investment tradeoffs, and operational metrics. - Ability to manage competing priorities, complex stakeholder requests, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision. - Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust, navigate organizational complexity, and drive outcomes without direct authority. - Ability to understand end-to-end business processes, enterprise technology, and operational dependencies and translate them into business priorities and operating plans. - Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MS, or another advanced degree preferred. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity. - Experience driving enterprise transformation and coordinating initiatives across multiple functions. - Familiarity with value stream management, process improvement, change management, and enterprise systems. - Experience defining and tracking transformation outcomes, including efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost, and adoption. - Experience designing and improving operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio and roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and leadership cadences. **Pay & Benefits:** The pay range for this role is $116,150 to $182,400 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity. Benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, long term/short term disability insurance, employee assistance program, flexible spending account, life insurance, generous time off policies, including 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure, 11 paid holidays, and additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - strategic planning - executive communications - organizational operations - cross-functional execution - business acumen - financial literacy ### Nice to have - value stream management - process improvement - change management - enterprise systems - transformation outcomes --- Source: [Apply at hp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ExternalCareerSite/job/Spring-Texas-United-States-of-America/Chief-of-Staff---Strategy---Business-Planning-Lead--Design-to-Operate-Value-Stream_3170014?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)