Vice President, Apps

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HP is a technology company founded on the belief that companies should do more thansimply generateprofit. Having helped shape Silicon Valley decades ago, HP continues to invest deeply in innovation across its broad product portfolio to advance how people live and work. We envision a world where technology improves lives everywhere. At HP, great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time-and one idea can change the world. Today, HP is among the world’s most sustainable, just, and inclusive technology companies.

TheCTO, Software organization at HP is a global team of thousands of engineers and leaders shaping the future of how software and platform technologies power HP’s product portfolio. The organization is responsible for the vision, strategy, architecture, engineering, and operations of the software and platform technology stacks behind HP’s products. These include modern, AI-native, end-to-end platforms spanning developer experience, data and AI, security, infrastructure, reliability and device software, as well as software stacks for customer-facing HP applications. Our mission is to deliver magical, AI-enabled experiences to tens of millions of customers worldwide. Beyond powering today’s products, the organization also helps define and shape HP’s next era of growth through technology innovation and active engagement across the software and AI ecosystems.

TheVice President,Apps role within the CTO, Software team leads alargeglobal organization ofengineers responsible for the design, development, and operations of software stacksbehindcustomer-facingHPapplications, servicesandsolutions. These include advanced technology capabilities at the intersection of softwareand shared platformsforHP’spersonalcomputing,solutionsand printingproducts, spanning both consumer and commercial segments. This senior engineering leadership position offers a unique opportunity for a passionate leader to help advance HP’s local AI strategythroughAI-nativeapplicationsat the edge.Thisroleis critical to advancing HP’s software-led business transformation and growth by drivingunified AI-enabled customer experiencesand enabling new efficiencies and operating models.

This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer,Software at HP. The leader will serve as a trusted partner to C-level executives and stakeholders across product and technology, with the opportunity to deliver sustained, company-wide impact at HP-a global technology powerhouse and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide.This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer, Software at HP. This leader will serve as a trusted partner to C-level executives and stakeholders across product and technology, with the opportunity to deliver sustained, company-wide impact at HP-a global technology leader and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability and a customer-first mindset.

• Attract, build, manage, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers and leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.

• DriveanAI-native paradigm across the full software development lifecycle, leveraging AI as a foundational layer and positioning AI agents as core participants in writing, testing, and refining code from the ground up.

• Implementashift from manual coding to AI-enabled design, verification, and orchestration of intelligent, automated workflows, delivering step-function improvements in code quality and developer productivity, andmaterially reducing toil and cognitive load.

• Partner closely with stakeholders to implement and exemplify a true platform engineering producer-consumer model, supported by bidirectional accountability and service-level objectives. This model includes self-service, autonomous consumption of shared software services, as well as developer experience, data, and infrastructure platform services to accelerate development and improve product quality.

• Serve as the engineering leader accountable to internal customers and stakeholders across: (1) product development (building, testing, and maintaining front-end and back-end application code to deliver business value), (2) platform consumption (maximizing as-a-service use of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, databases, and other platform capabilities), (3) feature delivery (partnering with product managers to deliver new features and enhance existing software), and (4) operational support (monitoring, debugging, and patching applications while ensuring compliance with security and operational policies defined by platform teams).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in computer science, engineering, or related field.

• Current or prior softwareengineering experience operating at the VP level within an established technology company.

• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior people management 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 building high-performing, diverse engineering teams and improving organizational efficiency.

• Proven ability to deliver measurable business value through engineering excellence, efficiency, and execution speed.

• Deep technical expertise in 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, senior-executive-level content.

• Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, with a track record of building deep, trusted cross-organizational relationships.

The pay range for this role is $320,000 to $350,000 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 [https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/])

The 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.

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