# Senior Third Party Firmware Program Manager **Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise **Location**: Spring, Texas **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Annual Salary USD 130,500 - 247,500 in Colorado // 123,500 - 285,000 in Texas & Wisconsin **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Spring-Texas-United-States-of-America/Senior-Third-Party-Firmware-Program-Manager_1217227-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f61ee2b8-e14 ## Description We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to establish and lead HPE's cross-functional program for governing third-party firmware incorporated into HPE products and solutions. This leader will build the operating model required to ensure supplier-developed firmware is identifiable, secure, supportable, traceable, and managed throughout its lifecycle, from product and supplier selection through deployment, vulnerability management, sustaining, and end of support. The role spans a broad ecosystem of third-party technologies, including power and cooling infrastructure, CDUs, RDHXs, ARCS/MCS, PDUs, power shelves, inverters, SSDs, memory, and other supplier-provided devices containing field-upgradable firmware. **Responsibilities:** - Establish governance and ownership: Define the enterprise operating model, RACI, decision rights, and escalation paths across Firmware and Hardware Engineering, Product Security, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Services, Product Management, and suppliers. - Build an end-to-end firmware lifecycle: Establish repeatable processes covering supplier qualification, firmware and security assessment, product qualification, release, deployment, updates, vulnerability response, sustaining, and end of support. - Strengthen cybersecurity and compliance: Partner with Product Security and suppliers to establish requirements for secure firmware, vulnerability management, SBOMs, firmware signing and provenance, secure development, supply-chain cybersecurity, and applicable regulatory requirements. - Drive supplier accountability: Work with Procurement and Supply Chain to establish clear contractual expectations for firmware quality, availability, security updates, vulnerability remediation, support duration, incident response, and end-of-life notification. - Define HPE versus supplier responsibility: Establish decision criteria for HPE-branded versus supplier-branded products and ensure firmware ownership and lifecycle obligations are explicitly understood before products are introduced. - Enable customer and service support: Ensure Services, field teams, and customers can identify shipped and supported firmware, obtain approved updates, understand upgrade requirements, and access clear HPE and supplier escalation paths. - Lead cross-functional execution: Drive decisions and closure of issues spanning organizational boundaries while leveraging established HPE and Compute processes wherever practical. - Manage risk and executive communication: Maintain program-level risk, metrics, and governance mechanisms and translate complex technical, supplier, security, and lifecycle issues into clear leadership decisions. **Education and Experience Required:** - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Sciences, or equivalent. - 8+ years of technical program management, engineering program management, product lifecycle management, or comparable experience. **Knowledge and Skills:** - Extensive experience with using project and program planning tools and software packages to create, manage, and track project results. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. - Demonstrated business acumen and successful experience managing all aspects of programs, including communicating with stakeholders and directing matrixed teams and resources. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language. - Ability to effectively communicate program plans, proposals, and results, and negotiate options at senior management levels. - Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs across engineering and business organizations. - Experience with firmware, embedded systems, servers, infrastructure products, hardware lifecycle management, or related technologies. - Working knowledge of firmware cybersecurity, vulnerability management, secure development, and supply-chain security. - Experience working with third-party suppliers, Procurement, Supply Chain, and contractual requirements. - Strong program governance, risk management, executive communication, and organizational influence skills. - Ability to translate engineering, cybersecurity, supplier, and customer-support requirements into an executable operating model. **What We Can Offer You:** - Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. - Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. - Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. ## Skills ### Required - project planning - program management - engineering management - product lifecycle management - firmware cybersecurity - vulnerability management - secure development - supply-chain security --- Source: [Apply at hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Spring-Texas-United-States-of-America/Senior-Third-Party-Firmware-Program-Manager_1217227-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)