Senior Manager - Technical Program Manager, AI NFF

Description -

HP is the original Silicon Valley garage company, where two engineers started a global revolution in technology and innovation. Today, HP is going back to its roots with 367 Garage, a new incubation group leveraging GenAI to create new product categories and the future of compute.

367 Garage operates as a startup incubator within HP, giving its teams the autonomy, resources, and support to explore, experiment, and execute on their ideas, while leveraging HP’s scale of execution and distribution. 367 Garage creates products and businesses across consumer and enterprise markets, with a focus on the intersection of hardware and AI.

The name 367 Garage reflects HP's history and vision. 367 Addison Avenue is the address of the famous garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939. The garage is now a historic landmark and a symbol of HP's culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. By naming its incubation group 367 Garage, HP honors its past and looks forward to its future, where GenAI will enable new possibilities and experiences for people and businesses around the world.

This position is based in Palo Alto, CA, USA. 5 days a week in the office with flexibility to work from home as appropriate.   

Technical Program Manager

The manager of the TPM group is a key role to accomplish the 367 Garage product development vision. This individual has deep experience in all stages of the consumer electronics product lifecycle from early concepting through production to sustaining and has a passion for building great products.

This role will serve as a critical touchpoint across multiple complex programs.  You should have a strong technical background with advanced subject matter knowledge in developing hardware products, and know how manage activities and solve complex business/technical issues.  You think creatively about how to accelerate and unblock programs, while hitting explicit milestones and deadlines. Working with stakeholders you will provides guidance on process improvements and recommends changes in alignment with business tactics and strategy. Additional guidance/criteria:

• Plans, manages, and monitors operational/tactical activities of Staff. Manages non-exempt/exempt individual contributors and/or supervisors.  Recruits and supports development of direct staff members. This role typically reports to a director.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of program managers to plan and execute multiple complex new device programs spanning EE, ME, and FW domains. Communicates program status and leads teams through key milestones.
• Leverages strong written and verbal communication skills to introduce and champion new processes and best practices, leading change & influencing your own team members as well as cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.

• Partners with cross-functional development teams (HW/SW/Platform/Operations) to create functional plans, translate these into operational processes and program plans, and guide execution.

• Identifies and anticipates risks/blockers/issues and works cross functionally to effectively resolve with appropriate stakeholders.
• Guides the team through decisions, balancing the business needs with technical constraints based on program priorities, and escalates when appropriate.
• Assists in program planning to identify timelines and resources needed and works with team leads to close resource gaps.
• Creates a TPM (Technical Program Manager) community; advocates the value of TPMs, mentors TPMs across the organization, and ensures that business and engineering TPM needs are being met.

Education and Experience Required

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• 7-10 years of experience managing programs for new product development.
• 5+ years of people management experience managing EPM, EPS, TPM teams in a cross functional org.
• Experience with portable or wearable consumer electronic technology (hardware/software), mobile technologies, machine learning/AI preferred.

Preferred Certifications

• Program Management Professional

Knowledge & Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Automation
• Change Management
• Computer Science
• Continuous Improvement Process
• JIRA/Asana
• Kanban Principles
• Lean Manufacturing
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Milestones (Project Management)
• New Product Development
• Process Improvement
• Product Management
• Project Engineering
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Project Schedules
• Risk Management
• Scrum (Software Development)
• Software Development
• Sprint Planning

Cross-Org Skills

• Customer Centricity
• Prioritization
• Resilience
• Team Management
• Strategic Thinking

Impact & Scope

• Impacts function and leads projects requiring understanding of multiple disciplines or areas of HP.

Complexity

• Uses managerial concepts and company objectives to resolve issues in creative and effective ways.

HP occasionally offers work authorization sponsorship for critical need roles. However, this opportunity currently does not offer work authorization sponsorship 

The base pay range for this role is $150,000 to $230,000 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US 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)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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Software

Schedule -

Full time

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No shift premium (United States of America)

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Relocation -

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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