Director, Workstation Platform Engineering

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Job Summary

The Director of Workstation Platform Engineering provides endtoend technical programmatic and organizational leadership for HPs premium desktop workstation portfolio. The role owns organization design platform development and crossfunctional alignment from early architecture and silicon engagement through product introduction sustaining activities customer delivery and longterm roadmap readiness.

This position operates at the intersection of business and portfolio strategy engineering leadership supplier/ODM management regulatory compliance and financial stewardship; ensuring HP delivers differentiated highperformance workstation platforms on time at scale with industry-leading quality and meeting customer experience goals.

Responsibilities Platform & Program Leadership

• Provide executivelevel leadership across multiple concurrent workstation programs including new platforms platform refreshes sustaining engineering and customerdriven adaptations.

• Own platform execution across architecture alignment design readiness validation manufacturing ramp and postlaunch quality.

• Serve as the final arbitration point for technical risk priority tradeoffs scope decisions and schedule commitments.

• Partner across program functional groups to ensure team alignment to deliver excellence in execution quality and design decisions.

Organizational & People Leadership

• Lead multiple senior managers and extended leadership teams across hardware and firmware development validation performance OS enablement and platform integration.

• Own workforce strategy including hiring plans succession planning promotions and longterm capability development.

• Establish organizational operating models that balance inhouse capabilities with ODMs and partners.

• Provide coaching and executive sponsorship to senior technical leaders and managers.

Technical Oversight & Engineering Excellence

• Maintain executive oversight of workstation platform architectures and development functions including board and system design system performance power delivery thermal solutions and quality & reliability.

• Set development strategies for the owned functional areas to ensure successful project design points platform robustness and customer readiness.

• Sponsor engineering automation data pipelines benchmarking systems and tools that improve scale predictability and engineering efficiency.

• Ensure engineering decisions remain grounded in customer workloads competitive positioning and longterm architectural intent.

Financial NRE & Portfolio Ownership

• Own and steward multimilliondollar R&D budgets including headcount NRE outsourced services tooling and supplier contracts.

• Define approve and coordinate investment strategies for programs balancing innovation affordability and reuse.

• Lead portfoliolevel resourcing funding prioritization and cost tradeoff studies across competing initiatives.

• Partner with finance and senior leadership to ensure execution plans align with business objectives and constraints.

Supplier ODM & Ecosystem Leadership

• Act as HPs senior R&D interface to ODMs and key worldwide suppliers.

• Define sourcing and engagement models spanning full ODM hybrid and HPmanaged execution.

• Lead executivelevel escalations related to supplier quality cost schedule and manufacturability.

• Ensure supplier strategies align with HPs quality compliance and longterm goals.

Regulatory Compliance & Customer Readiness

• Provide executive oversight for regulatory compliance government requirements and security certifications impacting workstation platforms.

• Lead crossfunctional response to customer escalations field issues and highvisibility commitments (including public sector and regulated markets).

• Ensure platforms meet regional security and lifecycle requirements without compromising schedule or quality targets.

Required Experience & Capabilities

• Senior-level engineering leader (Director) with experience in hardware systems or platform engineering.

• Proven success leading large multidisciplinary engineering organizations delivering through complex product cycles.

• Demonstrated ability to operate at a strategic level within a technical context.

• Strong executive communication skills with experience influencing VP/Sr. VP/GMlevel stakeholders.

Preferred Background

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or equivalent technical discipline (advanced degree preferred).

• 15 years in the computer hardware delivery industry

• Experience at large-scale technology companies (devices platforms SaaS consumer tech) strongly preferred

Cross-Org Skills

• Customer Centricity

• Prioritization

• Resilience

• Team Management

• Strategic Thinking

Impact & Scope

Impacts the entire business and influences the company direction across multiple disciplines or areas of HP.

Complexity

Uses input from managers and directors to inform strategy and achieve company goals and objectives.

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 pay range for this role is$174050to$278450USD 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.

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