Applied AI Strategy Business Planning Lead - Chief of Staff

HP; Austin (TX); Presencial; USD 131.000 - 205.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Long term disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Flexible paid vacation

Descripción de la vacante

HP is seeking a Strategy & Business Planning Lead for its Applied AI organization in the United States. You will serve as an operating partner to senior leaders, driving discipline, speed, and visibility across a 120+ person team.

You will translate complex AI initiatives into actionable business narratives, manage budgets and headcount trackers, and coordinate across chiefs of staff and business operations teams to keep priorities aligned and outcomes measurable.

Formación

• 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or related field.
• Exceptional executive communication skills for concise presentations to C-suite and senior leadership.
• Strong business acumen, financial literacy, budgets and headcount planning.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, complex intake, and fast-moving deadlines.
• Collaborative and influential across functions without direct authority.
• Technical fluency to translate AI/tech work into business narratives.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA/MS preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Develop high-quality presentation materials for C-suite and senior audiences.
• Translate AI, platform, and infrastructure work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes.
• Create reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums for strategy and priorities.

Conocimientos

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Storytelling to leadership

Financial literacy

Problem solving

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Descripción del empleo

Description -

HP's Applied AI organization is at the center of HP's enterprise AI transformation. The team builds internal AI solutions, runs the AI platform, develops new AI tools and infrastructure, and enables AI training and adoption for employees across the company.

Description -

HP's Applied AI organization is at the center of HP's enterprise AI transformation. The team builds internal AI solutions, runs the AI platform, develops new AI tools and infrastructure, and enables AI training and adoption for employees across the company.

We are seeking a highly organized, strategic, and execution-oriented senior professional to serve as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for Applied AI. This person will act as an operating partner to the VP, Head of Applied AI, helping a 120+ person organization run with clarity, discipline, and speed while ensuring the team is well represented with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator and executive communicator who can manage a continual flow of leadership requests, synthesize complex AI and technology work into crisp narratives, maintain financial and operational discipline, and drive coordination across leaders, workstreams, and peer Chief of Staff / business operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality presentation materials for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports.


• Partner with Applied AI leaders to translate technical AI, platform, infrastructure, and product work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP.


• Create reusable communication frameworks and establish recurring forums to improve how Applied AI explains its strategy, priorities, and impact.

Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness

• Design and manage the Applied AI operating cadence, including staff meetings, leadership meetings, business reviews, OKR checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites.


• Drive the annual and quarterly priority-setting process, ensuring goals, OKRs, milestones, dependencies, and owners are clear across the organization.


• Coordinate internally facing initiatives that improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment.


• Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers.

Transformation initiatives

• Engage regularly with Chiefs of Staffs, strategy teams, and peer organizations across HP to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives.


• Lead or coordinate high-priority special projects for Digital, especially initiatives that cut across multiple teams or require executive visibility.


• Bring structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges.

Required Capabilities And Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field.


• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to build clear, concise, visually strong presentations for C-suite and senior leadership audiences.


• Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including comfort with budgets, headcount / resource planning, and operational metrics.


• Demonstrated ability to manage complex intake, competing priorities, multiple stakeholders, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision.


• Strong collaboration and influencing skills; able to work through leaders and peers without direct authority and build trust across functions.


• Technical fluency and curiosity: ability to understand AI, data, software, platform, infrastructure, and responsible AI concepts well enough to translate them into business-relevant narratives and operating plans.


• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MS, or advanced degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or supporting AI, data science, software engineering, cloud / platform, infrastructure, automation, or enterprise technology organizations.


• Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity.


• Familiarity with AI adoption, AI governance, responsible AI, privacy, security, model lifecycle, or enterprise AI enablement topics.


• Experience building operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio reviews, roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and team cadences.

Pay & Benefits

The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 USD 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 holidaysAdditional flexible paid vacation and sick leave


• US benefits overview https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/

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.

Job - Business Planning

Schedule - Full time

Shift - No shift premium (United States of America)

Relocation - Yes

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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