Responsible for scoping and defining the technical design, driving execution, and delivery of a software feature, solution, or product. Serves as the bridge between cross-functional teams including marketing, Design, and R&D. Refines the requirements and distributes work into logical customer valued deliverables, and opportunistically identifies synergies with HP's existing systems. Responsible for defining the overall approach and architecture and is accountable for defining the overall quality plan for that feature, solution, or product, and ensuring the on-time delivery, escalating, as necessary.
Responsibilities
- Leads portions of the planning and execution of multiple complex projects or programs in support of the continuing evolution of the organization's software products.
- Partners with cross-functional software development teams to help them prioritize, plan, track and execute complex, cross organizational programs.
- Performs program analysis, manages risk, identifies and influences necessary course corrections, and communicates program status and activities across multiple levels of management.
- Continuously assesses and improves the processes that comprise the software development lifecycle and mentors, other members of the team, to do the same.
- Strategically partners with stakeholders to understand needs and priorities.
- Translates functional plans into operational processes and guides execution.
Knowledge & Skills
- Comprehensive experience in developing commercial software products using agile development practices.
- Expertise in managing cross-organizational software development projects from initiation through delivery.
- Expert skills in people and team management, ability to devise operational processes, and guide execution while properly allocating the team's resources.
- Analytical and problem-solving experiences with large-scale systems.
- Expert team skills and ability to cross functionally drive/influence work through others, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.
Scope & Impact
- Acts as leaders within the program management practice.
- Directly influences the nature of the work delivered.
- Decisions impact others in the immediate team and influence methods and techniques.
- Impacts efficiencies and delivery times across all software teams takes responsibility for the quality of deliveries.
- Impact of decisions can often alter program timelines by multiple quarters.
- Programs are typically cross-functional and involve multiple related software engineering teams.
Complexity
- High: Extensive cross-functional/cross-organizational senior management interface; deals with complex strategic issues.
- Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories, and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in HP’s most complex disciplines.
- Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in relevant area or demonstrated competence. Typically 7-10 years of related experience.
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