External Executive Communications Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Spring (TX); Hybrid; USD 119,500 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking an External Executive Communications Manager to support the CMCO. The role focuses on shaping the CMCO’s external voice, elevating HPE’s brand and market position through clear, high-impact engagements.

The ideal candidate brings senior communications experience, exceptional writing and editing skills, and the ability to work with senior leaders. Hybrid work with 2–3 days in an HPE office is expected, preferably in San Jose, CA or Spring, TX.

Qualifications

• Senior communications expertise and counseling clients and senior leaders directly.
• Excellent writing, editing and presentation skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into a clear point of view with concise language for various audiences.
• Good judgement and discretion when handling sensitive or confidential information.
• Excellent organizational skills and project management.
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Jose, CA (preference) or Spring, TX, with 2–3 days per week in an HPE office.
• Typically 7+ years of managing Executive communications.

Responsibilities

• Thought Leadership: Develop platforms aligned to CMCO priorities and translate strategy into differentiated viewpoints for customers, media, analysts, partners, and peers.
• External Visibility: Identify and secure opportunities to elevate CMCO's presence across events, media, speaking engagements, podcasts, and awards.
• Executive Content Development: Create speeches, talking points, and briefings reflecting CMCO's voice for various external audiences.
• Social Media: Lead CMCO's social media strategy to promote HPE's business and culture.
• Strategic Counsel: Advise CMCO on messaging, stakeholder engagement, and reputation management.
• Reputation and Narrative Management: Ensure consistent external messaging across channels.
• Measurement and Optimization: Establish metrics to evaluate external communications and iterate.

Skills

Senior communications expertise

Excellent writing

Editing skills

Presentation skills

Synthesize complex information

Judgement and discretion

Organizational skills

7+ years executive communications

Job description

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

HPE is looking for an External Executive Communications Manager to support HPE’s Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (CMCO).

About The Team

With nearly 1,200 marketers and communicators across the globe, Global Marketing & Communications (GMC) powers HPE’s end-to-end marketing and communications engine. The organization is responsible for ensuring HPE’s value propositions are clear and differentiated, that innovation and purpose are brought to life through compelling experiences, and that the company’s brand continues to advance its market position.

As a member of the Office of the CMCO team, the CMCO’s External Executive Communications Manager will report to the CMCO’s Chief of Staff and work among a highly collaborative team responsible for the CMCO’s operations and communications. A key partner to the CMCO’s External Executive Communications Manager will be the CMCO’s Internal Executive Communications Manager. You two will work together as peers to ensure narratives are complementary and consistent, advancing 360 communications for the CMCO.

About The Role

The role will help shape, strengthen, and scale the CMCO’s external voice and visibility, advancing HPE’s brand, reputation, and market position through clear, compelling, and high-impact engagements.

Responsibilities

• Thought Leadership: Develop distinct thought leadership platforms aligned to CMCO’s priorities. Translate company and team strategy, industry trends, and executive’s perspectives into differentiated points of view that strengthen credibility and influence with customers, media, analysts, partners, and peers. Connect CMCO’s thought leadership platform to efforts of the Thought Leadership team, working together to identify and execute opportunities when applicable.
• External Visibility: Identify, secure, prepare, and execute opportunities that elevate the CMCO's presence and expand influence across key stakeholder audiences. Drive participation in industry events, media engagements, speaking opportunities, podcasts, awards, and executive forums to reinforce thought leadership positioning. Connect CMCO’s external visibility efforts to those of the Corporate Communications team, working together to identify and execute opportunities when applicable.
• Executive Content Development: Create high-impact external communications that authentically reflect the CMCO's voice. Develop speeches, presentations, talking points, briefing materials, bylines, and other content that simplifies complex topics and delivers clear, compelling messages to reinforce thought leadership positioning and the CMCO’s priorities for a variety of external audiences.
• Social Media: Develop and execute the social media strategy for CMCO to promote HPE’s business, reputation, and culture and grow the CMCO’s personal brand. Capitalize on real-time opportunities for news making, brand building, and stakeholder engagement while monitoring activity and continually optimizing performance. Connect CMCO’s social media strategy and efforts to those of the HPE Brand Social team, working together to identify and execute opportunities when applicable.
• Strategic Counsel: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CMCO, providing communications counsel on messaging, stakeholder engagement, reputation management and executive positioning. Help anticipate opportunities and risks, ensuring communications decisions support broader business and organizational goals.
• Reputation and Narrative Management: Protect and enhance the CMCO's reputation by ensuring a consistent narrative across external engagements and communication channels. Align CMCO’s external messaging with corporate strategy, thought leadership messaging, brand positioning, and company priorities to strengthen trust and credibility with key audiences.
• Measurement and Optimization: Establish metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of external communications and thought leadership efforts. Analyze performance, identify insights and continuously refine strategies to increase visibility, influence, engagement and business impact. Connect measurement efforts to those of the Business Reporting Team, ensuring impact is captured in cross-GMC reporting.

About The Candidate

The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and collaborative with exceptional writing skills, communications instincts and sound judgment. They understand the big picture and know how to build a leader's brand. They are comfortable operating in ambiguity, working closely with senior leaders and balancing strategic thinking with hands on execution. They thrive on highly collaborative teams, have a deep desire to build rooted relationships across organizational teams and enjoy sharing wins with others.

This Individual Contributor's Background Includes

• Senior communications expertise and deep experience counseling clients and senior leaders directly.
• Exceptional writing, editing and presentation skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into a clear point of view with concise language for a variety of audiences.
• Good judgement and discretion when working with sensitive or confidential information.
• Excellent organisational skills and project management.
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Jose, CA (preference) or Spring, TX. Excited to work from an HPE office 2-3 days per week.
• Typically, 7+ years of managing Executive communications

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 programmes to help 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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Job Level

Master

Salary

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 135,500 - 275,000 in California // 119,500 - 275,000 in Texas

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.