About the Role
HP's Applied AI organization is central to HP's enterprise AI transformation, building internal AI solutions, running the AI platform, developing new AI tools and infrastructure, and enabling AI training and adoption. This role serves as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for Applied AI, acting as an operating partner to the VP, Head of Applied AI to ensure the organization runs with clarity, discipline, and speed, while being well-represented with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-quality presentation materials for C-suite and senior executive audiences.
- Translate technical AI, platform, infrastructure, and product work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes.
- Create reusable communication frameworks and establish recurring forums to improve communication of strategy, priorities, and impact.
- 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 clarity on goals, OKRs, milestones, dependencies, and owners.
- Coordinate internally facing initiatives to 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.
- Engage with Chiefs of Staffs, strategy teams, and peer organizations to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives.
- Lead or coordinate high-priority special projects, especially those cutting across multiple teams or requiring executive visibility.
- Apply structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Executive communications
- Storytelling
- Presentation development
- Business narrative development
- Operating rhythm management
- Organizational effectiveness
- Priority setting
- Cross-functional alignment
- Budget management
- Forecast management
- Headcount planning
- Vendor management
- Investment tracking
- Problem solving
- Analytical rigor
- Business acumen
- Financial literacy
- Collaboration
- Influencing
- Technical fluency in AI concepts
- AI strategy
- AI platform
- AI infrastructure
- Responsible AI
Location
- United States of America
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA
- MS
- Advanced degree
Salary/Compensations
- $130,700 to $205,200 USD annually
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave
About the Company
- HP's Applied AI organization is at the center of HP's enterprise AI transformation. The team builds internal AI solutions, runs the AI platform, develops new AI tools and infrastructure, and enables AI training and adoption for employees across the company.
Equal Opportunity
- HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).
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