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. 

This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer, Software at HP. The leader will serve as a trusted partner to C-level executives and stakeholders across product and technology, with the opportunity to deliver sustained, company-wide impact at HP—a global technology powerhouse and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide. 

Responsibilities 

• 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. 

Qualifications 

• 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 organizations delivering products used by millions of customers and/or large-scale commercial businesses generating more than $100 million in annual revenue. 

• Strong track record of improving operational efficiency and engineering effectiveness through strategic thinking and disciplined execution. 

• Experience leading or scaling functions such as transformation, chief of staff, technical program management, and/or communications. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across large, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical and operational topics clearly to executive audiences. 

• Strong collaboration and leadership presence, with a reputation for building trust, attracting top talent, and developing diverse, high-performing teams. 

Impact & Scope

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The pay range for this role is $280,000 - $350,000 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Long term/short term disability insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Flexible spending account

• Life insurance

• Generous time off policies, including;

• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure

• 11 paid holidays

• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)