Description
It is an exciting time to join the Strategy and Planning team within HP's Personal Systems group. The strategy team sets and aligns the strategic agenda for the Personal Systems (PS) business, collaborating with executives across business divisions to transform insights into strategic actions that yield tangible outcomes.
The Senior Director will lead the high-impact strategy and competitive intelligence teams, focusing on AI strategy, business growth, external innovation, and strategy capability building. This leader will also oversee the competitive intelligence function, shape future intelligence capabilities, and translate market and competitive insights into operational actions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategic thought leadership and long-range research , develop original perspectives on technology disruption, competitive shifts, emerging business models, and future growth opportunities.
- Shape the forward-looking AI point of view , track AI trajectory, including migration of inference from cloud to edge and on-device.
- Translate strategy into portfolio and product priorities , develop perspectives on portfolio priorities, growth opportunities, and strategic trade-offs.
- Develop executive narratives for internal and external communications , build PS AI strategy inputs and decision-oriented materials.
- Build the organizational strategy foundation , create scalable frameworks, learning experiences, and change-management approaches.
- Maintain ecosystem relationships for strategic access , build and sustain relationships across venture capital, startups, and AI ecosystem partners.
- Drive stakeholder management and executive advisory , advise executive leaders on opportunities, risks, portfolio trade-offs, and execution considerations.
- Build and lead a high-performing Strategy team , develop talent, clarify ownership lanes, and establish clear accountability.
- Elevate competitive intelligence into decision support , move CI from reporting to proactive decision support.
- Grow and scale the competitive intelligence team , shape future intelligence capabilities and expand the use of competitive insights.
The Ideal Candidate Will Bring:
- Strong strategic judgment and commercial instinct in fast-changing AI, devices, software, platforms, services, and ecosystem environments.
- Ability to structure ambiguous business and technology opportunities, identify decisions at stake, and create clear workplans.
- Excellent executive communication and strategic storytelling skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive leaders, drive alignment across competing priorities, and shape strategic decisions.
- Experience building organizational capability through repeatable frameworks, learning assets, change management, governance, and scalable AI-enabled tools.
Qualifications
- Typically has 15+ years of job-related and/or leadership experience, preferably in management consulting, corporate strategy, business planning, market intelligence, or a related field.
- Experience advising or influencing senior executives in a global, matrixed technology organization.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Experience with AI, PCs, devices, software, services, productivity tools, platforms, or ecosystem strategy strongly preferred.
The pay range for this role is $190,950 to $305,550 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity.