Business Strategist Technology & Innovation Organization

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Job Summary

This role is responsible for framing TIOs long-term aspiration crystallizing our where-to-play and how-to-win choices and uncovering new growth horizons at the intersection of emerging technologies customer pain points and strategic whitespace. You will lead the development and articulation of enterprise-level strategy that shapes HPs future technology bets.

This is a role for a sharp strategic mind with strong strategy consulting/corporate development instincts along with hands-on business experience in a start-up or technology company. We are looking for someone who has a strong handle on the market and AI trends can structure ambiguous problems create compelling frameworks craft tight narratives find insights hidden in the noise and elevate complex analysis into clear executive storytelling. You will drive market and competitive analysis business plans and investment theses while helping build HPs innovation ecosystem across startups VCs and partners.

You will translate external signals into actionable recommendations for HPs ELT and Board and connect the dots across customer pain points and unmet needs to translate them into business model choicepoints. The ideal candidate can work in a fast-paced setting is analytical creative and highly polished with the ability to go deep in the details while elevating insights to shape top-level strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Narrative Development

• Lead the creation of strategic frameworks hypothesis trees and storylines that simplify complex technology spaces into compelling executive-ready narratives
• Develop clean visually strong and insight-driven slides that distill data frameworks and technical content into high-clarity recommendations
• Craft strategic narratives that guide ELT and Board decision-makingincluding vision statements investment rationales and long-term strategic choices

Market Customer & Competitive Insight

• Conduct structured market customer and competitive analyses across GenAI edge AI multimodal developer tools and vertical-specific applications
• Synthesize disparate signals into actionable insights that clarify where HP has a right-to-play and how we win
• Build segmentation TAM/SAM models ecosystem maps adoption curves and category frameworks

Business Planning & Investment Thesis Development

• Build data-driven business plans that articulate opportunity size economics monetization models costs and risks
• Develop investment theses (build/partner/invest/acquire) that balance strategic rationale financial considerations and technical feasibility
• Partner with Corporate Development and HP Tech Ventures to evaluate external opportunities

Cross-Functional Influence

• Collaborate with engineering product TIO and BU leaders to align opportunity framing with HPs technology roadmap and capability strengths
• Clarify what matters most distilling customer needs into technology implications and strategic choices
• Drive alignment across senior stakeholders and influence decision-making through structured insight-led storytelling

Ecosystem Engagement

• Engage deeply with startups VCs research labs and partners to map emerging technology trends and identify strategic collaboration areas
• Help build HPs innovation ecosystem and assess the long-term impact of nascent technologies on HPs portfolio

Key Skills & Capabilities

Strategic & Analytical Excellence

• Structured problem solver with exceptional ability to break down ambiguous problems into crisp frameworks
• Fluency in market analysis: TAM segmentation competitive dynamics value chain analysis
• Strong business model analysis (pricing unit economics monetization pathways growth levers)

Executive Storytelling & Visualization

• Outstanding ability to build simple clean logical storylines that influence senior audiences
• Strong slide-making and visualization skills (consulting-level): pyramid communication frameworks 22s architectures heat maps
• Comfort distilling complex technical content into concise compelling messages

Insight Generation & Connecting Dots

• Ability to see around corners and identify non-obvious connections between customer needs technology shifts and business opportunities
• Skilled at synthesizing large volumes of data research and technical input into actionable insight

Technical & Market Understanding

• Familiarity with AI/ML cloud edge compute developer productivity or device-centric software ecosystems
• Ability to engage credibly with senior engineers and technical leaders even without being a hands-on developer

Strategy Consulting / Corporate Development DNA

• Rigor structure and pacing typical of top-tier strategy consulting
• Ability to build theses evaluate opportunities and drive recommendations with data and narrative clarity
• Comfort working across senior stakeholders executive reviews and tight timelines

Education & Experience

• 1015 years in strategy corporate development management consulting or product strategy roles (top-tier consulting with hands-on business strategy experience strongly preferred)
• Experience building business plans TAM analyses investment theses and executive narratives in emerging technology domains
• Experience working with (or adjacent to) AI cloud software or advanced compute portfolios
• Strong financial modeling and business case development capabilities
• Demonstrated track record of crafting high-quality C-suite presentations and strategic recommendations
• Ability to navigate ambiguity frame problems independently and move quickly to insight and action
• MBA strongly preferred advanced technical or business degree a plus

The pay range for this role is$130700to$236000USD 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)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.

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