Chief of Staff, Data Center Engineering — HPE Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company in; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 348,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise invites applications for the Chief of Staff, Data Center Engineering — HPE Networking (Finance). This hybrid role requires ~2 days per week in an HPE office and partners with the Data Center Engineering leader to translate priorities into a clear operating agenda.

The role drives alignment across product, architecture, operations, and finance, ensuring disciplined follow-through on commitments and enabling faster, more focused decision-making.

Qualifications

• Strategic planning and implementation to advance growth and market share.
• Budget controls to protect assets and ensure value creation.
• P&L management for investments and resource allocation.
• Proven leadership in complex, global organizations.
• Experience working with executive leadership and external boards."

Responsibilities

• Convert engineering priorities into measurable plans, milestones and rhythms.
• Shape agendas, brief executives, drive decisions and track commitments.
• Connect engineering plans with product strategy, financial objectives and workforce priorities.
• Develop concise progress insights on capacity, investments and risks for senior leaders.
• Lead high-impact, ambiguous work spanning multiple functions or teams.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Budget Management

P&L Management

Change Management

Leadership

C-Level Partnering

Problem Solving

Execution Management

Education

MBA or advanced university degree

Bachelor's degree required

Job description

Chief of Staff, Data Center Engineering — HPE Networking (Finance)

Chief of Staff, Data Center Engineering - HPE Networking

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic advisor and execution partner to the Data Center Engineering leader within HPE Networking. The role translates business and engineering priorities into a clear operating agenda, drives alignment across product, architecture, operations, finance, and people teams, and ensures disciplined follow-through on the organization's most critical commitments. This leader brings structure to complex decisions, surfaces risks and tradeoffs, and enables the Engineering leadership team to operate with greater speed, focus, and accountability.

Core Accountabilities

• Strategy and execution: Convert Data Center Engineering priorities into measurable plans, milestones, decision points, and operating rhythms.
• Leadership effectiveness: Shape agendas, prepare executive briefings, facilitate decisions, and track commitments across the leadership team.
• Cross-functional alignment: Connect engineering plans with product strategy, customer commitments, financial objectives, workforce priorities, and BU dependencies.
• Business visibility: Develop concise insights on progress, capacity, investment choices, organizational health, and delivery risks for senior leaders.
• Special initiatives: Lead high-impact, ambiguous work on behalf of the Engineering leader, particularly where ownership spans multiple functions or teams.

Education and Experience Required

• Management consulting experience highly desired.
• Prior corporate leadership.
• Achieved planned financial results at an organizational level.
• Acted as a senior executive in a global company responsible for operational efficiency.
• Exercised leadership on external business or industry boards.
• 12+ years total experience.
• MBA highly desired, or advanced university degree. Bachelors degree required.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strategic Planning & Implementation: Orchestrates the development of strategic plans that reflects the company's business strategy to advance market share/penetration and achieve profitable growth.
• Budget Management & Cost Optimization: Establishes tracks and enforces spending parameters to protect the company's business and assets, and ensures their effective engagement.
• P&L Management: Sets and manages the business investments and resource allocations essential to ensuring the financial growth & health of the corporation.
• Vertical Industry Acumen: Develops and exercises a profound understanding of business dynamics within area of control, as a basis for informed business decision making.
• Workforce Planning: Builds acquisition and development strategies targeted to ensuring workforce readiness, and market opportunity responsiveness.
• Execution Management: Collaborates effectively with the company's BUs and value chain partners to ensure operational responsiveness to challenges, and alignment with business imperatives
• C-Level Partnering: Contributes to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promotes its total solution capabilities at the highest levels of an organization.
• Business and Financial Acumen: Exhibits authoritative business and financial acumen o develop meaningful business recommendations. Understands the portfolio aspect of the company's products/services and how the businesses work together.
• Change Management: Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.
• Problem Solving: Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensures comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.
• Leadership: Able to lead effectively in a complex and political environment, and deliver results; Able to influence without direct authority; Able to balance between competing priorities and be flexible and creative; Able to drive team performance to world class; Able to create and build highly effective teams and organizations; Able to communicate effectively across multiple levels in the company and the industry.

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here .

Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 163,000 - 347,500 in California
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

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