Senior Director, Engineering

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Leads a large or broad function/department within a multifaceted organization. Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. Responsible for one or more recognized professional disciplines. Fully accountable for the success of the designated function or department. Influences strategy and sets policy and direction. Owns a significant number of measurable functional, operational and strategic goals or priorities. Assumes responsibility for the successful implementation of business plans in a defined area of responsibility. Contributes to the overall strategic definition of a function with strong business acumen. Acts as a key advisor to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business. Typically reports to VP.

Responsibilities:

• Provides direct and ongoing strategic leadership for a department or functional organization of multiple subordinate managers and high-level individual contributors designing and developing engineering solutions utilizing multiple engineering disciplines for products, systems, software, and solutions.
• Creates strategic and tactical operations and resource plans, goals, and priorities for assigned organization based on business and technology roadmap and functional objectives.
• Manages headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs for the organization, ensuring that resources are appropriately allocated and that goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met in accordance with organizational metrics and business plans.
• Engages with program managers, marketing, supply chain, technical leaders and executives to communicate program status, escalate issues, and guide and influence strategic decision-making
• Manages senior relationships and escalated issues with outsourced partners and suppliers, including setting expectations regarding deliverables, product quality, schedules, and costs; ensures that organization is effectively leveraging outsourced resources.
• Identifies opportunities for and drives organizational initiatives and programs to support business process improvements and cost reductions.
• Provides overall people-care management for direct reports, including hiring, setting and monitoring of annual performance plans, coaching, and career development; drives and fosters organization-wide performance standards, expectations, and practices to support ongoing team member and process development.

Education and Experience Required:

• First level university degree or equivalent experience required. May have advanced university degree.
• Typically 15 or more years of related work experience, including 10 years of people management experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong leadership skills, including coaching, team-building, and conflict resolution.
• Organizational and strategic management skills, including budget and business planning and forecasting.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to manage human capital across multiple geographies and organizations to drive workforce development and achieve desired results.
• Advanced communication skills catered to a wide variety of audiences. (e.g. written, verbal, presentation); mastery in English and local language.
• Extensive business acumen, technical knowledge, and industry experience encompassing one or more engineering, technology, and product domains.
• Advanced multi-tasking and prioritization skills.
• Advanced relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting with senior management and executive roles for internal and external partners.
• Good understanding of the company's policies and processes.

Impact/Scope:

• Collaborates across functions to deliver multidisciplinary engineering solutions.
• Typically interacts with high-level Individual Contributors, Managers, Directors, and VPs and SVPs for internal and external suppliers, partners, and customers.
• Drives large and complex cross-organizational business initiatives.

Complexity:

• Leads highly-complex multidisciplinary engineering development, support, and improvement activities and organizations.
• Anticipates operational needs and impact on the business and function or department.

Accessibility

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What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Job Level:

- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 200,000 - 425,500 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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