Applied AI Strategy Business Planning Lead - Chief of Staff

HP; Texas; On-site; USD 131,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Generous paid time off

Parental leave 4–12 weeks

11 paid holidays

Flexible vacation and sick leave

Job summary

HP is seeking an Applied AI Strategy Business Planning Lead to act as an operating partner to the VP, Head of Applied AI. You will drive executive communications, strategic storytelling, and financial discipline while coordinating across workstreams and senior leaders.

The role focuses on translating AI/platform work into clear business narratives, managing budgets and headcount, and shaping the annual/quarterly planning process for a 120+ person organization.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in business operations, strategy & planning, Chief of Staff roles, or related fields.
• Exceptional executive communication for C-suite audiences.
• Strong business acumen with budgets, headcount, and operational metrics.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality materials for C-suite briefings and strategy updates.
• Translate technical AI capabilities into clear business narratives and outcomes.
• Design and manage operating cadence, budgets, headcount, and cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Executive communication

Budgeting & forecasting

OKR & planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic storytelling

AI/tech fluency

Leadership without authority

Financial literacy

Time management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Applied AI Strategy Business Planning Lead - Chief of Staff

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

Executive communications and storytelling

• 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 holidays
• Additional 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.

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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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Relocation -

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