VP of AI-Driven Developer Experience

HP; Palo Alto (CA); 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

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Vacation and sick leave

Job summary

HP in Palo Alto, CA seeks a Vice President of Developer Experience (DevEx) to maximize AI-enabled developer productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction by reducing friction across the software development lifecycle for thousands of HP engineers. This newly established org will deliver capabilities that make it easier, faster, safer, and more consistent to build, test, release, and operate software at scale.

This role reports to the CTO of Software and will partner with engineering executives to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; Ph.D. preferred.
• Current or prior experience operating at the VP level in engineering within an established technology company.
• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior people leadership 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.
• Deep experience in developer experience, with demonstrated success delivering DevEx capabilities at scale and driving significant improvements in developer productivity.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable business value through software engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and speed of execution.
• 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 content for senior executive audiences.
• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, with a strong track record of building deep, trusted relationships across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and a customer-first mindset across the organization.
• Attract, build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers and leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.
• Design, develop, and implement a modern, AI-native developer experience (DevEx) paradigm across the full software development lifecycle, leveraging AI as a foundational layer and positioning AI agents as core participants in how software is designed, written, tested, and refined.
• Deliver DevEx as a product to thousands of software engineers within the CTO, Software organization as internal customers, and lead the shift from manual coding to AI-enabled design, verification, and orchestration of intelligent, automated workflows—driving step-function improvements in code quality and developer productivity while materially reducing toil and cognitive load.
• Lead the developer platform, including DevEx internal product management, the service catalog, self-service onboarding, golden paths, templates, API discovery, and paved-road workflows.
• Lead DevEx engineering systems, including Git platforms, CI/CD, build systems, repositories, test automation, release orchestration, deployment workflows, feature flags, and rollback tooling.
• Lead developer productivity initiatives, including developer metrics, friction analysis, development environments, AI coding assistants, code review automation, and engineering workflow optimization.
• Lead API governance, lifecycle management, and engineering standards, including API design standards; shared libraries, SDKs, and reusable components; dependency governance; developer documentation and reference materials; playbooks; and the inner-source and open-source program office, ensuring the platform evolves in alignment with the needs of internal business and product organizations.
• Lead developer success, including developer support channels, migration programs, training, onboarding journeys, documentation systems, office hours, and communities of practice.
• Lead developer advocacy through a well-defined engagement model that promotes adoption of internal tools, gathers feedback, measures satisfaction, and identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities.

Skills

DevEx expertise

Developer productivity

Leadership experience

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

AI-native lifecycle

Executive communication

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Job description

HP in Palo Alto, CA seeks a Vice President of Developer Experience (DevEx) to maximize AI-enabled developer productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction by reducing friction across the software development lifecycle for thousands of HP engineers. This newly established org will deliver capabilities that make it easier, faster, safer, and more consistent to build, test, release, and operate software at scale.

This role reports to the CTO of Software and will partner with engineering executives to