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Business Strategy Principal – HP Solutions Strategy – SW

HP Palo Alto, California senior full-time

Salary

$130,700 to $205,200 USD annually

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Description

Join HP's high-impact, high-visibility HP Solutions Strategy team and help shape the future of HP Solutions across software, services, AI-enabled solutions, and emerging growth areas.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly analytical, results-oriented strategy leader who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving complex business problems, and wants to make a visible impact at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic analyses and insights that inform HP's software, services, and solutions portfolio strategy
  • Support the development of software, services, and vertical solutions strategies for key markets
  • Support services portfolio simplification and transition to modular offerings
  • Bring an outside-in perspective on the broader software, services, AI, and solutions ecosystem
  • Support AI-enabled services and solutions strategy by building actionable insights
  • Partner with product, sales, marketing, finance, category, and strategy teams to translate customer pain points and use cases into clear demand hypotheses
  • Evaluate core-to-edge AI solution architectures
  • Support strategic account pursuits, customer pilots, lighthouse accounts, reference designs, and other proof points
  • Partner with GTM teams to develop launch readiness plans
  • Build business cases and support pricing and packaging choices
  • Structure analytical approaches, project plans, and executive-ready storylines to solve complex and ambiguous business problems

Knowledge and Skills

  • Exceptional analytical thinking, structured problem solving, and hypothesis-driven decision-making skills
  • Ability to break down ambiguous issues into clear frameworks, actionable insights, and practical recommendations
  • Strong business acumen with experience assessing markets, competitive dynamics, customer needs, business models, and GTM implications
  • Experience building financial models, business cases, forecasts, scenario analyses, TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, and pricing or packaging recommendations
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong project management and prioritization skills
  • Proven ability to influence and collaborate across senior stakeholders
  • Curiosity, learning agility, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment
  • Ability to connect technology, customer, market, and financial insights to strategic choices
  • High degree of ownership, sound judgment, and commitment to delivering high-quality work

Education and Experience

  • Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or another related discipline
  • Typically 8–10+ years of experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, business strategy, management consulting, product strategy, product management, GTM strategy, software, services, solutions, or a related field
  • Experience in top-tier consulting, corporate strategy, or a technology/product organization with strong analytical rigor, or a similarly rigorous strategy environment, is highly desirable

Salary

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:

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Long term/short term disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Flexible spending account
  • Life insurance
  • Generous time off policies

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • MBA
  • top-tier consulting
  • corporate strategy
  • technology/product organization
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