Print Software Program Manager

The Print Software Program Delivery team is looking for a strong candidate to drive programs across our organization. The candidate will be responsible for managing schedules, commitments, monitoring progress against milestones, managing escalations, and providing concise updates to senior leadership.

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:

• Plays a critical role in the planning and execution of the organization's most complex and visible projects or programs in support of the continuing evolution of the organization's software products.
• Partners across functions to prioritize, plan, track and execute complex, cross organizational programs while maintaining focus on building high quality programs.
• Defines processes that comprise the software development lifecycle and mentors, other members of the team, to do the same.
• Reaches across functions or departments to mitigate program risks and resolves issues that affect release, scope, schedule, and quality.
• Drives and tracks software releases, features and bug fixes, testing, and documentation.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills by providing clear, concise, and timely updates to stakeholders at all levels, facilitating effective collaboration across cross-functional teams, and ensuring alignment on project goals and deliverables.
• Manages program budgets, including forecasting, tracking expenditures, and ensuring projects are delivered within financial constraints. Collaborates with finance teams to optimize resource allocation and support strategic business objectives.

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.

• Hands-on experience with developing and reporting on metrics for engineering development.
• Analytical and problem-solving experiences with large-scale systems.
• Comprehensive experience with a controlled software release process involving a product lifecycle management tool.
• Proven experience in communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, adapting messaging for diverse stakeholders, and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in budgeting, financial planning, and cost management for large-scale software programs.

Scope & Impact:

• Viewed as leaders within the program management practice.
• Decision significantly affect the quality and success of team projects and have impacts on programs that may last up to a year.
• Provides guidance for junior team members.
• Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization.

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 10 years of relevant experience.

The pay range for this role is $154,400 to $242,4000 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)

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.

HP occasionally offers work authorization sponsorship for critical need roles. However, this opportunity currently does not offer work authorization sponsorship.