Hardware Engineering Program Manager

Hardware Engineering Program Manager

This role is onsite, with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

• Drive multiple active hardware engineering projects, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and deliverables are clearly defined and tracked.
• Leverage engineering background to understand hardware engineering process and flows.
• Anticipate risks, dependencies, and roadblocks; proactively plan for next steps and contingencies to ensure successful outcomes and timely closure.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration embodying HPE’s “win together” culture; convene and coordinate project meetings.
• Track progress and provide updates; drive alignment and accountability.
• Ensure focus on critical projects in an environment of competing and changing priorities.
• Deliver crisp, data‑driven updates to stakeholders and leadership; ensure all information needed to drive good decisions is available to decision makers.
• Identify process gaps and opportunities for improvement.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.

2+ years of program or project management experience in the hardware engineering domain.

• Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent hardware projects with varying complexity and drive them to closure on schedule.
• Familiarity with hardware engineering concepts, processes and workflows involved in design, debug, test and change management.
• Excellent communication, organization, and documentation skills.
• Proven track record in managing stakeholders, driving accountability and enabling communication and collaboration across cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to identify risks and drive mitigation plans.
• Familiarity with project management tools and processes.
• Proficiency in using common documentation and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel, Teams, PowerPoint).
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• Program management training; familiarity with program management body of knowledge (PMBOK).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to crisply communicate key takeaways at different levels of detail for different audiences.
• Familiarity with networking products and industry.
• Growth mindset and ability to navigate through uncertainty.
• Customer focus and passion for delivering quality products.

• Health & Wellbeing – comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development – programs to support career growth.
• Unconditional Inclusion – inclusive culture celebrating individual uniqueness.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category; all decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.