Edge & AI Product Ops & Strategy Lead

Hp Iq; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 147,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance

FSA benefits

Life insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Flexible leave

Job summary

HP Inc. in Colorado’s Fort Collins area seeks a Principal Product Operations & Strategy Manager for Edge & AI Solutions.

The role strengthens how the Edge & AI portfolio operates by improving alignment, product practices, and evidence-based decision making across solutions. Working with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales, you will lead portfolio operating cadence, maintain planning frameworks, and synthesize insights that inform strategy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Operations, or portfolio management.
• Ability to operate at the portfolio level and influence direction without direct ownership of products.
• Experience establishing or improving product planning cadences, portfolio reviews, or shared product operating practices.
• Strong qualitative synthesis skills—connecting customer insights, deployment experiences, and product signals into clear narratives.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with senior product leaders.
• Comfort working with product, engineering, sales, and field teams to source inputs and reconcile conflicting signals.
• Working knowledge of product and business metrics; does not require ownership of analytics infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate portfolio planning and alignment discussions that connect Edge & AI strategy to priorities, sequencing, and success criteria.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, and dependencies across hardware, platform, and solution work, and bring risks and trade-offs to product leaders for resolution.
• Maintain a consolidated view of product plans to help teams coordinate decisions and understand how offerings contribute to the portfolio.
• Lead quarterly planning, portfolio reviews, and cross-team prioritization discussions with inputs and actions documented.
• Develop and maintain shared product practices for planning, customer validation, readiness reviews, and learning from outcomes.
• Keep operating practices lightweight and practical, improving clarity as the portfolio grows.
• Support teams in adopting shared discovery, prioritization, and outcome-tracking approaches across solution maturity.

Skills

Portfolio management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Synthesis of customer insights

Facilitation of trade-off discussions

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, or related field

MBA (preferred)

Job description

HP Inc. in Colorado’s Fort Collins area seeks a Principal Product Operations & Strategy Manager for Edge & AI Solutions.

The role strengthens how the Edge & AI portfolio operates by improving alignment, product practices, and evidence-based decision making across solutions. Working with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales, you will lead portfolio operating cadence, maintain planning frameworks, and synthesize insights that inform strategy.