Description
HP's Applied AI organization is at the center of HP's enterprise AI transformation.
We are seeking a highly organized, strategic, and execution-oriented senior professional to serve as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for Applied AI.
Key Responsibilities:
- Executive communications and storytelling:
+ Develop high-quality presentation materials for C-suite and senior executive audiences. + Partner with Applied AI leaders to translate technical AI, platform, infrastructure, and product work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP. + Create reusable communication frameworks and establish recurring forums to improve how Applied AI explains its strategy, priorities, and impact.
- Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness:
+ Design and manage the Applied AI operating cadence, including staff meetings, leadership meetings, business reviews, OKR checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites. + Drive the annual and quarterly priority-setting process, ensuring goals, OKRs, milestones, dependencies, and owners are clear across the organization. + 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.
- Transformation initiatives:
+ 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.
Required Capabilities and Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to build clear, concise, visually strong presentations for C-suite and senior leadership audiences.
- Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including comfort with budgets, headcount / resource planning, and operational metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex intake, competing priorities, multiple stakeholders, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills; able to work through leaders and peers without direct authority and build trust across functions.
- Technical fluency and curiosity: ability to understand AI, data, software, platform, infrastructure, and responsible AI concepts well enough to translate them into business-relevant narratives and operating plans.
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MS, or advanced degree preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in or supporting AI, data science, software engineering, cloud / platform, infrastructure, automation, or enterprise technology organizations.
- Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity.
- Familiarity with AI adoption, AI governance, responsible AI, privacy, security, model lifecycle, or enterprise AI enablement topics.
- Experience building operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio reviews, roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and team cadences.
Pay & Benefits:
- The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 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.