Director, Product Operations & Enablement

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

HPE Financial Services is seeking a Director, Product Operations & Enablement to lead the design, adoption, and evolution of the enterprise product operating model. This role is a senior people manager within the Strategy & Operations job family, accountable for ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across business product teams. The Director serves as the single point of accountability for planning cadence, governance alignment, enablement, and delivery health, while building and leading a high-performing Product Operations and Enablement team.

The role reports directly to the Digital Strategy Leader to translate strategy into clear priorities, informed trade-offs, and measurable execution outcomes. As product maturity evolves, this role continuously refines frameworks, roles, and ways of working to ensure scalability, clarity, and sustained business impact.

• Own and evolve the enterprise product operating model, ensuring clarity of roles, decision rights, and execution standards across business product teams.
• Ensure consistent application of the operating model while enabling flexibility based on product maturity and complexity.
• Act as the enterprise steward of product operations standards and practices.

• Provide leadership with a unified view of digital product delivery health, team capacity, and execution performance across the portfolio.
• Establish consolidated reporting that tracks digital product delivery health, capacity utilization, and execution performance as measurable indicators across all teams.
• Surface real-time insights into delivery health, capacity, and execution performance to enable data-driven decisions across digital product teams.
• Maintain a single, integrated view of digital product delivery health, capacity, and execution performance across all teams.

• Partner with senior leadership to translate enterprise strategy into actionable priorities and execution plans.
• Guide prioritization discussions and trade-offs to ensure focus on highest-value outcomes.
• Provide leadership insight into product execution maturity, risks, and opportunities.

• Own product enablement strategy, including playbooks, training, and adoption of standard practices.
• Continuously evolve frameworks, roles, and practices based on feedback, maturity assessments, and results.
• Establish measurement mechanisms to assess adoption and effectiveness of enablement efforts.

• Build and lead a team of Product Operations and Enablement practitioners.
• Provide clear direction, coaching, and performance management aligned to enterprise outcomes.
• Develop talent and succession capabilities to support long-term product maturity.

• Management consulting experience highly desired.
• Prior corporate leadership.
• Achieved planned financial results at an organizational level.
• Acted as a senior executive in a global company responsible for operational efficiency.
• Exercised leadership on external business or industry boards.
• 10 years total experience.
• MBA highly desired, or advanced university degree. Bachelors degree required.

• Strategic Planning & Implementation:
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