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Vice President, DevEx

HP


Job Location:

Palo Alto, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 320000 - 350000
Posted: 20 August 2026 (24 days ago)
Application Deadline: 17 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Vice President DevEx

Description -

TheVice PresidentDevEx(Developer Experience)role within the CTO Software teamis responsible formaximizing AI-enabled developer productivity efficiency and satisfaction by reducing friction across the software development lifecycle for thousands of developers building HP products software and platform technology stacks. This newly established organization will deliver capabilities that make it easier faster safer and more consistent for engineers to build test release andoperatesoftware at scale.

This role is critical to advancing HPs software-led business transformation by accelerating product velocity enabling new digital business models and amplifying the impact of shared engineering capabilities across the company.

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer of Software this leader will serve as a trusted partner to engineering executives across HP. The role offers the opportunity to create tangible value for thousands of software engineers while driving sustained company-wide impact at HPa global technology leader and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28000 patents over$55 billionin annual revenue and approximately 58000 employees worldwide.

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 diverseexpertise perspectives and backgrounds.

  • Design develop and implement a modern AI-native developer experience (DevEx) paradigm across the full software development lifecycleleveragingAI as a foundational layer and positioning AI agents as core participants in how software is designed written tested and refined.

  • DeliverDevExas a product to thousands of software engineerswithin the CTO Software organizationas internal customers and lead the shift from manual coding to AI-enabled design verification and orchestration of intelligent automated workflowsdriving step-function improvements in code quality and developer productivity while materially reducing toil and cognitive load.

  • Lead the developer platform includingDevExinternal product management the service catalog self-service onboarding golden paths templates API discovery and paved-road workflows.

  • LeadDevExengineering 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 andidentifiesand implements continuous improvement opportunities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors or mastersdegree in computer science engineering or a related field; Ph.D. preferred.

  • Current or prior experienceoperatingat 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.

  • Demonstrated success in building high-performing diverse engineering teams and improving organizational effectiveness.

  • Deepexpertisein developer experience withdemonstratedsuccess deliveringDevExcapabilities 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 technicalexpertisein 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 strongtrack recordof building deep trusted relationships across organizations.

The pay range for this role is $320000 to $350000 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 compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of thisposting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.

Job -

Software

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

25%

Relocation -

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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