VP of AI-Powered Developer Experience

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 320,000 - 350,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the United States is seeking a Vice President, DevEx to lead a new organization focused on maximizing AI-enabled developer productivity and satisfaction across the software lifecycle for thousands of HP engineers.

You will attract and develop a high‑performing global team, design a modern DevEx paradigm, and deliver internal products and platforms that reduce toil, improve code quality, and accelerate product velocity.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field; Ph.D. preferred.
15+ years of engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior people leadership roles.
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 in building high‑performing, diverse engineering teams and improving organizational effectiveness.
Deep expertise 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.

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.