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This role owns HP Personal Systems' understanding of that shift: who is building it, who is winning, and what it means for our strategy.\nYou will lead a small, high-caliber team that keeps a live pulse on the entire PC Competitor portfolio and AI ecosystem across software and hardware, turns raw signal into sharp strategic insight, and briefs to several senior management levels from division strategy teams to division presidents and the PS president.\nWhat you'll do\nRun deep, continuous competitor analysis. Build and maintain living intelligence on the core competitive set - Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, Acer - and the emerging challengers, including Honor, Huawei, Xiaomi, and innovative smaller and regional players. Cover product roadmaps, AI positioning, go-to-market, partnerships, and overall pricing changes.\nBenchmark business and financial performance. Lead quarterly earnings analysis and business-performance comparison across the competitive set.\nMaintain POV on the AI ecosystem and edge-AI picture. Maintain a living map of the AI landscape across the full stack - models and software, devices, and the companies enabling AI at the edge. Develop and defend a point of view on which workloads are moving on-device, how fast, and who is driving the transition.\nSynthesize and influence at the executive level. The heart of the role. Convert findings into concise, decision-ready insight that connects each signal to a specific business risk or strategic implication. Package and communicate it, verbally and in writing to division strategy teams, division presidents, your SVP, and the PS president on a regular cadence.\nAnticipate, don't just report. Run scenario and war-gaming exercises to model likely competitor and ecosystem responses, and recommend HP's pre-emptive posture - moving the function from \"what happened\" to \"what is about to happen and what we should do first.\"\nMaintain an emerging-threat radar. Provide early warning on the players that don't show up in a standard benchmark - startups, new form factors, agentic devices, and regional entrants - before they become obvious.\nBuild the intelligence engine. Stand up AI-augmented tooling, data pipelines, and a shared knowledge base so the team delivers at a scale and speed a manual approach never could.\nLead and develop the team. Manage, coach, and grow a team of four analysts. Set the research agenda, the quality bar, and the operating cadence, and develop your people into strong analysts and confident communicators. Team leadership is a central expectation of this role, not a side responsibility.\nDrive strategic direction for HP. Support Strategy and multiple business leaders with research, analysis, testing, and presentations on specific topics to support PS Strategy Projects\nManage a team of 3-4 junior team members\nWhat we're looking for\nMust-haves\n8+ years in competitive intelligence, corporate or competitive strategy, equity research, management consulting, or product/market strategy - ideally touching technology hardware, semiconductors, or software\nStrong working knowledge of the AI landscape across software and hardware models, on-device/edge AI, NPUs and accelerators, and the AI PC ecosystem with the curiosity and speed to close gaps quickly\nFinancial and analytical fluency: you can read an earnings call and a 10-Q and pull out the story, and you are comfortable with unit economics, margins, and mix\nExceptional communication - verbal above all. You can distill complexity into a clear narrative and hold the room with senior executives up to president level\nStrategic mindset: you connect disparate signals into insight and tie them to concrete business risk and strategic opportunity.\nDemonstrated people leadership: you have managed and developed analysts or associates, set direction, and raised a team's bar\nExecutive presence and credibility with senior, cross-functional stakeholders.\nPreferred\nExperience in the PC / client-device, semiconductor, or consumer-electronics industry.\nFamiliarity with AI-augmented research tooling and LLM-based research workflows.\nA global market perspective, including China/APAC OEM dynamics and the export-control and regulatory landscape shaping the sector.\nMBA or a relevant advanced degree.\nSalary\nThe pay range for this role is$147,050 to $230,850 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.\nBenefits:\nHP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:\nHealth insurance\nDental insurance\nVision insurance\nLong term/short term disability insurance\nEmployee assistance program\nFlexible spending account\nLife insurance\nGenerous time off policies, including;\n4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure\n11 paid holidays\nAdditional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)\nThe 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.\nJob -\nBusiness PlanningSchedule -\nFull timeShift -\nNo shift premium (United States of America)Travel -\nRelocation -\nEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)-\nHP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).\nPlease be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. 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