Incubations Acceleration Lead

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HP Innovation Office is a group of creative thinkers and doers. We are responsible for strategizing, innovating and incubating new businesses where people are the hearth of our organization. We lead and facilitate the creative process to deliver amazing experiences for customers, in the office and on the go. We value deep thinking and long-term decisions along with decisiveness and risk taking. We believe that designing innovation is a scientific process that blends behavioral and emotional insights with creativity and business innovation to propose new narratives that unveil new value. 

We strive to learn and understand customers’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to develop the right strategy through a successful execution.

We are seeking an experienced leader to guide HP internal Incubations into the future through creative thought and brilliant experiences. In this unique leadership opportunity, your contributions will help to shape HP’s future and revolutionize many industries. The Innovation Office team is part of the Technology and Innovation Organization (TIO) at HP. TIO hosts key strategic capabilities development for the company and works on behalf of the company’s executive leadership team to guide the development of HP’s long-term vision into actionable strategy.

Come join HP, the founder of Silicon Valley. At HP, we believe in reinventing industries to drive innovation, growth, and world-changing impact. At HP, we imagine the future and make it happen. We solve big challenges while having fun. We take pride in living by the HP Way and have a strong commitment to our employees, communities, and the planet. We believe that more diverse thinking leads to unexpected, more thoughtful solutions.

As an Experienced Strategy and Incubation leader

• You will push the limits to increase HP pace of innovation. Explore and evaluate new business opportunities and ensure their consistency with the company vision and strategy. Working with Research, Product, and business stakeholders, set a high bar for ideating market disruptions and guiding them thru market validations, workshops and design thinking sessions. Partner internally and externally and ensure a constant flow of ideas to proof of concept stages
• You will influence stakeholders at all levels to embrace a founder’s mentality, establishing milestones-based validation and funding processes to make informed and ongoing decisions on funding levels
• You will champion to ensure our financial, operational and people resources are deployed to execute on agreed strategies and plans
• You will develop a venue for innovation ideas based on a formalized methodology to identify, validate and scale disruptive businesses
• You will ensure strategic decisions are made and operations are executed with consistency and providing the right level of analysis. Be proactive to ensure Asset Insight, Performance and Progression priorities are connected to this standardized view of the portfolio
• You will lead Acceleration Training to the incubation and founders community and Online resources
• You will build connections with external experts (VC’s, Accelerators, Incubators, Founders) to enable an outside-in validation of HP’s incubations and community of external advisors
• You will oversee the development and implement action of standardized program/project management processes and tools to facilitate and assess project planning, program budgeting, risk identification and management, change management, program governance and program/project status reporting
• You will ensure all executed projects and programs are aligned with the strategic plan and adhere to all the defined processes and meet the required standards for planning and execution. Facilitate cross–site (internal and external), cross-functional interactions and provide support between BUs and functions as required

To land this role, you also need to have some experience:

• You have prior experience in a start-up like venture (Accelerator, Corporate Incubation, VC)
• You have experience in developing acceleration programs for new business creation.
• You have strong strategy, program management and financial skills
• You have strong familiarity with Lean start Up & Agile methodology
• You have achieved planned financial results at an organizational level
• You have exercised leadership on external business or industry boards
• You have 10+ years relevant experience. Post-advanced degree experience leading highly visible deals and new business creation in a start-up, venture capital or corporate environment
• You have MBA (highly desired) or advanced university degree. Bachelor’s degree required.

Skills

• You have a Founder’s mentality
• You strive for agility and speed of execution, with clear priorities and accountability
• You adopt an entrepreneurial rapid ‘test & learn’ attitude – and help foment this mindset through the organization           
• You are tenacious and optimistic and have a high level of resilience despite setbacks and changes in plans
• You are not hung up on levels or hierarchy – you are apt at navigating across the organization in a boundaryless manner
• You can outperform in global roles within diverse environments, managing distributed teams in different time zones, proactively overcoming the challenges that this entails.
• You are highly proficient in data analysis and financial modeling
• You are skilled in conducting market research/analysis including through primary means (e.g., interview senior external KOLs, conduct market surveys, run focus groups)
• You have excellent executive-level presentation and communication skills to simplify and clearly communicate complex concepts
• You have solid project management skills

Disclaimer
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 base pay range for this role is $130,350 to $200,750 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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Business Planning

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Full time

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No shift premium (United States of America)

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