Chief of Staff - Strategy & Business Planning Lead, Design to Operate Value Stream

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.