Description
We are seeking a high-performing, experienced, and energetic Technical Program Manager to lead Microsoft strategic partnership across HP Business Units and Vertical Solutions.
The PS Engineering, Integrated Solutions & Ecosystem team is responsible for coordinating innovation opportunities from our partners, leading HP’s technological future.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and lead a program involving multiple functions and project teams to drive the program, from ideation to implementation of a solution with defined timelines and resources.
- Act as the central point of contact from Microsoft to HP Business units and IHV partners, aligning technical roadmaps with our engineering teams across disciplines.
- Manage the implementation of Proof of Concepts by guiding engineering, interfacing with multiple parties, ensuring learning is captured and shared.
- Drive innovation and integration of new technologies and quality initiatives into projects to deliver innovative solutions into market.
- Develop and direct the creation of key milestones, critical deliverables, and other program support requirements to ensure successful outcome.
- Lead and influence efforts across Pan-HP business units to ensure all areas are represented and solutions are implemented using HP way.
- Communicate program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders and executives.
- Synthesize complex program data into clear progress reports, risk analyses, and escalation paths for HP executives and partner stakeholders.
- Review and evaluate program plans, providing tangible feedback to improve the overall quality and efficiency of the organisation’s program management framework.
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, or equivalent technical degrees.
- Typically 6-10 years experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience designing and developing project and program planning tools to create, manage, and track project results.
- Self-starter, able to lead and influence a diverse team and can work effectively across cultural and time zone boundaries.
- Strong organisational skills, communication skills, capable of bridging highly technical teams with management and support teams.
- Ability to effectively communicate program and technical plans, proposals, and results, and negotiate options at senior management levels.
- History of innovation with examples of developing new business, technical, engineering and/or manufacturing processes.
- Demonstrated business acumen and successful experience managing all aspects of programs, including briefing of executive management, leading and or working with scrum teams, negotiating with business groups, communicating with stakeholders, and directing matrix teams and resources.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to effectively communicate program plans, proposals, and results and negotiate options at senior management levels.
- Operating System & Platform Architecture: Strong working knowledge of modern operating-system architecture and the interaction between OS, firmware, drivers, silicon, security, power, memory, connectivity, and application/runtime layers.
- Technology Curiosity & Continuous Learning: Demonstrates strong curiosity about emerging technology trends, proactively develops knowledge through self-directed learning and experimentation, and forms well-reasoned perspectives on technology opportunities, trade-offs, and potential impact.
Benefits:
- 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
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave