Description
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams and managers responsible for developing complex, high-performance networking hardware. As a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, you will provide direct and ongoing leadership for an organization of multiple subordinate managers and senior individual contributors, while owning delivery and strategic alignment across hardware R&D programs.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for multiple hardware engineering teams designing electrical and electronic subsystems, integrated circuitry, and platform solutions.
- Manage headcount, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment with business priorities, roadmaps, and financial commitments.
- Drive execution from architecture alignment through mass production, ensuring quality, reliability, and cost targets are achieved.
- Partner closely with program management, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, architecture leaders, and executives to communicate status, escalate risks, and influence strategic decisions.
- Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology direction, organizational capability, and long-term investment strategy.
- Lead cross-organizational execution, enabling alignment across engineering, operations, and external partners.
- Manage relationships with outsourced development partners and suppliers, setting clear expectations around quality, cost, delivery, and accountability.
- Proactively identify process improvements, efficiency gains, and cost-reduction opportunities across teams and programs.
- Provide overall people-care leadership, including hiring, talent development, performance management, succession planning, and organizational design.
- Foster a strong culture of engineering rigor, accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement across the organization.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- Typically, 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years of people management, preferably managing managers and senior technical staff.
- Proven ability to apply expert-level technical knowledge to guide teams solving complex hardware and system-level challenges.
- Strong background in hardware design, validation, and product development lifecycles, enabling credible technical leadership.
- Advanced leadership skills in coaching, team building, conflict resolution, and performance management.
- Demonstrated success managing human capital across geographies, driving capability growth and consistent execution.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to balance technical excellence, cost, schedule, and risk.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to engage and influence engineers, peers, and executive stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity, high-impact environments, with strong prioritization and decision-making skills.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Investment in career development and growth.
- Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.