Vice President, Apps

HP; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Generous time off policies

Parental leave

Job summary

HP, a global technology leader, seeks a VP Apps within the CTO, Software organization to lead a large, global engineering team responsible for software stacks behind HP’s customer-facing applications and platforms. This role focuses on advancing HP’s AI-native strategy across edge and cloud, driving unified AI-enabled experiences and new operating models.

The position reports to the Chief Technology Officer, Software and requires senior leadership with the ability to influence executives,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior people management roles.
• 4+ years leading global software engineering teams serving multiple internal customers.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing diverse engineering teams.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable business value through engineering excellence and execution speed.
• Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern AI-native software development lifecycle practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example, fostering accountability and a customer-first mindset.
• Attract, build, manage, and develop a high-performing software engineering team.
• Drive an AI-native paradigm across the full software development lifecycle, leveraging AI as a foundational layer and positioning AI agents as core participants in writing, testing, and refining code from the ground up.
• Implement a shift from manual coding to AI-enabled design, verification, and orchestration of intelligent, automated workflows, delivering step-function improvements in code quality and developer productivity, and materially reducing toil and cognitive load.
• Partner closely with stakeholders to implement and exemplify a true platform engineering producer–consumer model, supported by bidirectional accountability and service-level objectives.
• Serve as the engineering leader accountable to internal customers and stakeholders across product development, platform consumption, feature delivery, and operational support.

Skills

VP level leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

AI-native software development

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering excellence

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering (PhD preferred)

Job description

Description -

HP is a technology company founded on the belief that companies should do more than simply generate profit. Having helped shape Silicon Valley decades ago, HP continues to invest deeply in innovation across its broad product portfolio to advance how people live and work. We envision a world where technology improves lives everywhere. At HP, great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time—and one idea can change the world. Today, HP is among the world’s most sustainable, just, and inclusive technology companies.

HP is a technology company founded on the belief that companies should do more than simply generate profit. Having helped shape Silicon Valley decades ago, HP continues to invest deeply in innovation across its broad product portfolio to advance how people live and work. We envision a world where technology improves lives everywhere. At HP, great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time—and one idea can change the world. Today, HP is among the world’s most sustainable, just, and inclusive technology companies.

The CTO, Software organization at HP is a global team of thousands of engineers and leaders shaping the future of how software and platform technologies power HP’s product portfolio. The organization is responsible for the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations of the software and platform technology stacks behind HP’s products. These include modern, AI-native, end-to-end platforms spanning developer experience, data and AI, security, infrastructure, reliability and device software, as well as software stacks for customer-facing HP applications. Our mission is to deliver magical, AI-enabled experiences to tens of millions of customers worldwide. Beyond powering today’s products, the organization also helps define and shape HP’s next era of growth through technology innovation and active engagement across the software and AI ecosystems.

The Vice President, Apps role within the CTO, Software team leads a large global organization of engineers responsible for the design, development, and operations of software stacks behind customer-facing HP applications, services and solutions. These include advanced technology capabilities at the intersection of software and shared platforms for HP’s personal computing, solutions and printing products, spanning both consumer and commercial segments. This senior engineering leadership position offers a unique opportunity for a passionate leader to help advance HP’s local AI strategy through AI-native applications at the edge. This role is critical to advancing HP’s software-led business transformation and growth by driving unified AI-enabled customer experiences and enabling new efficiencies and operating models.

This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer, Software at HP. The leader will serve as a trusted partner to C-level executives and stakeholders across product and technology, with the opportunity to deliver sustained, company-wide impact at HP—a global technology powerhouse and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide. This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer, Software at HP. This leader will serve as a trusted partner to C-level executives and stakeholders across product and technology, with the opportunity to deliver sustained, company-wide impact at HP—a global technology leader and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability and a customer-first mindset.
• Attract, build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers and leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.
• Drive an AI-native paradigm across the full software development lifecycle, leveraging AI as a foundational layer and positioning AI agents as core participants in writing, testing, and refining code from the ground up.
• Implement a shift from manual coding to AI-enabled design, verification, and orchestration of intelligent, automated workflows, delivering step-function improvements in code quality and developer productivity, and materially reducing toil and cognitive load.
• Partner closely with stakeholders to implement and exemplify a true platform engineering producer–consumer model, supported by bidirectional accountability and service-level objectives. This model includes self-service, autonomous consumption of shared software services, as well as developer experience, data, and infrastructure platform services to accelerate development and improve product quality.
• Serve as the engineering leader accountable to internal customers and stakeholders across: (1) product development (building, testing, and maintaining front-end and back-end application code to deliver business value), (2) platform consumption (maximizing as-a-service use of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, databases, and other platform capabilities), (3) feature delivery (partnering with product managers to deliver new features and enhance existing software), and (4) operational support (monitoring, debugging, and patching applications while ensuring compliance with security and operational policies defined by platform teams).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Current or priorsoftware engineering experience operating at the VP level within an established technology company.
• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior people management roles, and preferably 4+ years leading global software engineering teams serving multiple internal customers and delivering capabilities used by millions of users or supporting $100M+ businesses.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing, diverse engineering teams and improving organizational efficiency.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable business value through engineering excellence, efficiency, and execution speed.
• Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern AI-native software development lifecycle practices.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop and deliver persuasive, senior-executive-level content.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, with a track record of building deep, trusted cross-organizational relationships.

The pay range for this role is $320,000 to $350,000 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/)

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Software

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

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Relocation -

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s). Please be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence. For more information, review HP's EEO Policy or read about your rights as an applicant under the law here: "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal".