Vice President, CTO Operations

HP is a technology company founded on the belief that companies should do more than simply generate profit. Having helped shape Silicon Valley decades ago, HP continues to invest deeply in innovation across its broad product portfolio to advance how people live and work. We envision a world where technology improves lives everywhere. At HP, great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time—and one idea can change the world.

Today, HP is among the world’s most sustainable, just, and inclusive technologist companies.

The CTO, Software organization at HP is a global team of thousands of engineers and leaders shaping the future of how software and platform technologies power HP’s product portfolio. The organization is responsible for the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations of the software and platform technology stacks behind HP’s products. These include modern, AI-native, end-to-end platforms spanning developer experience, data and AI, security, infrastructure, reliability and device software, as well as software stacks for customer-facing HP applications.

Our mission is to deliver magical, AI-enabled experiences to tens of millions of customers worldwide. Beyond powering today’s products, the organization also helps define and shape HP’s next era of growth through technology innovation and active engagement across the software and AI ecosystems.

The Vice President, CTO Operations role serves as the operational right hand to the CTO, Software at HP and is accountable for aligning strategy, programs, and communications to accelerate the organization’s impact across HP. This role oversees the organization’s strategy and transformation, engineering executive operations, technical program management, and communications. This senior, strategic position is critical to advancing HP’s software-led business transformation and growth by enabling new efficiencies and operating models.

• Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and a customer-first mindset across the organization.
• Attract, build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of talented operations & execution leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.
• Develop and implement an operating model and stakeholder engagement model for the newly created CTO Operations organization, serving as the accountable leader and primary interface to stakeholders to translate the company’s business strategy and goals into technology and engineering deliverables, leveraging best-in-class operating models to drive execution and engineering excellence, and surfacing execution insights and constraints to inform ongoing strategic decisions.
• Oversee the organization’s strategy and transformation planning, including execution of the transformation strategy and change management, OKRs, business metrics, analytics and reporting, and the enablement of new engagement models to resolve organizational bottlenecks.
• Lead a central team of Chiefs of Staff delivering proactive executive operation support to engineering leaders across the CTO, Software organization to accelerate execution and improve engineering productivity.
• Oversee central technical program management, driving execution excellence for cross-functional engineering initiatives across the CTO, Software organization.
• Oversee internal and external communications for the CTO, Software organization, including all-hands meetings, employee engagement, and onboarding, acting as the "front door" for key communications for the organization, as well as key external communications and speaking engagements.

• Current or prior experience operating at the VP level in strategy, operations, or related areas within an established technology company.
• 15+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or related areas, including 8+ years leading organizations through senior leadership roles.
• Proven success building and leading high-performing teams that drive strategic, operational, and execution capabilities within large, complex product or engineering environments.
• Experience driving strategy and/or operations within engineering…