Director, Software Product Manager

Director, Software Product Manager

A career in the HP Technology and Innovation Organization team allows you the opportunity to create history and push the industry forward, redefining the state of the are Print Software Platform. It is an exciting time to be at HP as our services and solutions business are growing fast. The Print software organization has grown significantly, and we need to evolve the way we work to keep up.

The Director, Software Product Manager will be responsible for a team that manages the strategy, vision and roadmap of the Print Software Platform. They are responsible for designing, developing, and managing activities for the Print software platform. In addition they will be responsible for supporting customer facing HP Product and solutions and their vast number of use cases. The Director, Software Product Manger makes data-driven decision and collaborates with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Architects, Product Managers to drive the platform functionality from concept to customer adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build a scalable, secure and reliable Print Software platform.
• Works closely with stakeholders to understand needs and priorities.
• Leads, coaches, cares for, and grows teams of customer-focused software and data engineers.
• Thoughtfully organizes and unblocks collaboration and partnership at multiple levels, across business groups and functions to achieve the organizational mission.
• Partners closely with Product Management, Technical Program Managers, Architects, HP product groups, and experts to envision, drive, and deliver innovative, compelling, and quality solutions at speed and scale.
• Engages with Architects and broader HP technology excellence communities to provide technical vision and strategy for the teams; designs and leads a multi-year technical roadmap, balancing short- and long-term technology investments.
• Roadmap – own platform roadmap for services and manage the backlog through constant prioritization. Manage product management requirements coming from various business units and cross functional teams.
• Translates stakeholder needs into product requirements and definitions.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to guide feature development and prioritization.
• Translates user requirements into executable and workable feature items with the software engineering team.
• Acts as an advocate for the stakeholders during specification and development stages.
• Manage product lifecycle of functionalities on the Print Software platform

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong technical knowledge of software platform systems, including enterprise, middleware, firmware, and embedded systems.
• Adept at collecting and analyzing input from multiple sources (internal customers, product managers, engineering, architecture, and management).
• Significant experience in software development, systems engineering, or software platfrom product management.
• Ability to understand and deal well with rapid development cycles and remain flexible in the face of uncertainty.
• Ability to not only communicate in software engineering specific jargon and non-technical language but also translate between the two.

Scope & Impact

• Decisions and actions typically impact multiple departments and may have downstream repercussions lasting multiple weeks.
• Advises various internal, partner, and customer teams on the needs and requirements of target markets.
• Works closely with architects and technology leads, directly engaging with internal and external software development teams.

Complexity

Contributes to the development of company objectives and achieves goals through subordinate high-level individual contributors and managers.

Education & Experience

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence. MBA is a plus
• Typically has 12 years of job-related and/or management experience, preferably in software designing & development, software architecture, programming languages, or a related field.

Disclaimer
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The base pay range for this role is $159,650 to $239,500 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US 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