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Description -
About the opportunity
HP’s Design to Operate (D2O) Value Stream team drives end-to-end digital enablement and transformation across the processes, technology, and operating capabilities that support the journey from product design through operational execution, in close partnership with the Global Business Units (PS, Print and HPS).
We are seeking a strategic, highly organized, and execution-oriented senior professional to serve as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for the Design to Operate Value Stream. This person will act as an operating partner to the VP, Head of D2O Value Stream, helping a 200+ person organization run with clarity, discipline, and speed while ensuring the team is well represented with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator and executive communicator who can manage a continual flow of leadership requests, synthesize complex digital transformation work into crisp narratives, maintain financial and operational discipline, and drive coordination across leaders, workstreams, and peer Chief of Staff / business operations teams.
This role will connect strategic planning, executive communications, organizational operations, and cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate brings sound judgment, discretion, strong business acumen, and the ability to turn complex transformation work into clear decisions, compelling narratives, and measurable results.
Key responsibilities
Strategic partnership and executive effectiveness
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, helping shape priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and advance the team’s strategic agenda.
- Translate leadership priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success.
- Manage the flow of executive requests and emerging issues, ensuring the right matters receive leadership attention and timely follow-through.
- Prepare the value stream leader for key meetings and decisions through briefings, stakeholder context, recommendations, and decision materials.
- Represent the leader’s priorities in designated forums and drive alignment and follow-through on leadership decisions.
Executive communications and storytelling
- Develop high-quality presentations and communications for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports.
- Partner with value stream leaders and subject matter experts to translate process, technology, and operational work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP.
- Ensure leadership communications consistently reflect the value stream’s strategy, priorities, commitments, and impact.
- Establish reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums that strengthen understanding of the team’s work across HP.
Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness
- Own the team’s leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, business reviews, progress checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites.
- Drive the annual and quarterly planning, aligning goals, OKRs and owners are clear across the value stream.
- Track progress against strategic commitments, surface risks and gaps, and work with leaders to resolve issues and maintain execution.
- Coordinate internally facing initiatives that improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment.
- Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers.
Cross-functional alignment and transformation
- Serve as a central coordination point between the Design to Operate Value Stream team and partners across business functions, Digital, and the broader HP organization.
- Support alignment across process owners, business stakeholders, and technology teams to advance end-to-end transformation.
- Engage regularly with Chiefs of Staffs, strategy teams, and peer organizations across HP to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives.
- Lead or coordinate high-priority special projects for Digital, especially initiatives that cut across multiple teams or require executive visibility.
- Bring structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges.
- Identify emerging issues and opportunities, develop recommendations, and mobilize stakeholders to drive action.
Required capabilities and qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior executives, exercise independent judgment, and handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to create clear, concise, visually compelling presentations and decision materials.
- Strong strategic thinking and execution skills, with a track record of turning broad objectives into coordinated plans and measurable results.
- Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including experience with budgets, resource planning, investment tradeoffs, and operational metrics.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, complex stakeholder requests, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust, navigate organizational complexity, and drive outcomes without direct authority.
- Ability to understand end-to-end business processes, enterprise technology, and operational dependencies and translate them into business priorities and operating plans.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, MS, or another advanced degree preferred.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity.
- Experience driving enterprise transformation and coordinating initiatives across multiple functions.
- Familiarity with value stream management, process improvement, change management, and enterprise systems.
- Experience defining and tracking transformation outcomes, including efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost, and adoption. Experience designing and improving operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio and roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and leadership cadences.
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Pay & Benefits
The pay range for this role is $116,150 to $182,400 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 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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Data & Information TechnologySchedule -
Full timeShift -
No shift premium (United States of America)Travel -
25%Relocation -
NoEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO) -
HP, 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).
Please 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. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.
For more information, review HP’s EEO Policy or read about your rights as an applicant under the law here: “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal"
Description -
About the opportunity
HP’s Design to Operate (D2O) Value Stream team drives end-to-end digital enablement and transformation across the processes, technology, and operating capabilities that support the journey from product design through operational execution, in close partnership with the Global Business Units (PS, Print and HPS).
We are seeking a strategic, highly organized, and execution-oriented senior professional to serve as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for the Design to Operate Value Stream. This person will act as an operating partner to the VP, Head of D2O Value Stream, helping a 200+ person organization run with clarity, discipline, and speed while ensuring the team is well represented with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator and executive communicator who can manage a continual flow of leadership requests, synthesize complex digital transformation work into crisp narratives, maintain financial and operational discipline, and drive coordination across leaders, workstreams, and peer Chief of Staff / business operations teams.
This role will connect strategic planning, executive communications, organizational operations, and cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate brings sound judgment, discretion, strong business acumen, and the ability to turn complex transformation work into clear decisions, compelling narratives, and measurable results.
Key responsibilities
Strategic partnership and executive effectiveness
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, helping shape priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and advance the team’s strategic agenda.
- Translate leadership priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success.
- Manage the flow of executive requests and emerging issues, ensuring the right matters receive leadership attention and timely follow-through.
- Prepare the value stream leader for key meetings and decisions through briefings, stakeholder context, recommendations, and decision materials.
- Represent the leader’s priorities in designated forums and drive alignment and follow-through on leadership decisions.
Executive communications and storytelling
- Develop high-quality presentations and communications for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports.
- Partner with value stream leaders and subject matter experts to translate process, technology, and operational work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP.
- Ensure leadership communications consistently reflect the value stream’s strategy, priorities, commitments, and impact.
- Establish reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums that strengthen understanding of the team’s work across HP.
Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness
- Own the team’s leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, business reviews, progress checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites.
- Drive the annual and quarterly planning, aligning goals, OKRs and owners are clear across the value stream.
- Track progress against strategic commitments, surface risks and gaps, and work with leaders to resolve issues and maintain execution.
- Coordinate internally facing initiatives that improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment.
- Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers.
Cross-functional alignment and transformation
- Serve as a central coordination point between the Design to Operate Value Stream team and partners across business functions, Digital, and the broader HP organization.
- Support alignment across process owners, business stakeholders, and technology teams to advance end-to-end transformation.
- Engage regularly with Chiefs of Staffs, strategy teams, and peer organizations across HP to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives.
- Lead or coordinate high-priority special projects for Digital, especially initiatives that cut across multiple teams or require executive visibility.
- Bring structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges.
- Identify emerging issues and opportunities, develop recommendations, and mobilize stakeholders to drive action.
Required capabilities and qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior executives, exercise independent judgment, and handle sensitive information with discretion.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to create clear, concise, visually compelling presentations and decision materials.
- Strong strategic thinking and execution skills, with a track record of turning broad objectives into coordinated plans and measurable results.
- Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including experience with budgets, resource planning, investment tradeoffs, and operational metrics.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, complex stakeholder requests, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust, navigate organizational complexity, and drive outcomes without direct authority.
- Ability to understand end-to-end business processes, enterprise technology, and operational dependencies and translate them into business priorities and operating plans.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, MS, or another advanced degree preferred.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity.
- Experience driving enterprise transformation and coordinating initiatives across multiple functions.
- Familiarity with value stream management, process improvement, change management, and enterprise systems.
- Experience defining and tracking transformation outcomes, including efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost, and adoption. Experience designing and improving operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio and roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and leadership cadences.
-
Pay & Benefits
The pay range for this role is $116,150 to $182,400 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 this
posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
Job -
Data & Information TechnologySchedule -
Full timeShift -
No shift premium (United States of America)Travel -
25%Relocation -
NoEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO) -
HP, 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).
Please 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. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.
For more information, review HP’s EEO Policy or read about your rights as an applicant under the law here: “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal"
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in chief design engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering
- 7 to 15 years of progressive engineering experience with design leadership responsibilities
- Proficiency in CAD platforms such as CATIA, SolidWorks, or Creo
- Experience leading cross-functional design teams through full product development cycles
- Familiarity with industry standards such as ISO, GD&T, or AS9100 depending on the sector
- Demonstrated ability to manage design reviews, design for manufacturability, and stakeholder sign-off
Tips for Your Chief Design Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to the design domain
Aerospace and automotive chief design engineer roles weight different tools and standards, so a resume optimized for one rarely lands in the other. Align your listed software, compliance frameworks, and deliverable types to the exact engineering domain on the posting.
Lead with cross-functional ownership on your resume
Hiring managers for this role want evidence you have directed design teams, not just contributed to them. Rewrite your bullets to show you owned design decisions from concept through release, naming the team size and scope of each program you led.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists chief design engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter for stage and program maturity
A startup designing a first-generation product and an established manufacturer iterating on a platform require completely different skills. Read postings carefully to distinguish early-stage greenfield programs from sustaining engineering roles, and pitch your experience accordingly.
Prepare a design decision walkthrough for interviews
Expect at least one interview stage where you walk through a past design from requirements through final validation. Practice narrating the trade-offs you made, the stakeholders you managed, and how you resolved conflicts between cost, weight, and performance constraints.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base pay
Chief design engineer offers often include patent bonuses, project milestone payouts, and professional development budgets that rarely appear in the initial offer letter. Ask explicitly what each component covers before you accept or counter any offer.
Chief Design Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most chief design engineers?
The most active employers for chief design engineers right now are HP, WD, and eBay, and the most openings are in Texas, California, and Maryland, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturing firms account for the largest share of active postings.
How many chief design engineer jobs are remote?
About 100% of chief design engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most engineering design environments. Software-heavy roles in systems architecture and embedded design tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions tied to physical prototyping or lab testing are predominantly on-site.
How do you become a chief design engineer?
Start by earning a degree in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering, then build several years of hands-on design experience before moving into a lead or principal engineer role where you own design decisions end to end. From there, gaining program management exposure, mentoring junior engineers, and driving products through full development cycles positions you for a chief design engineer title. Industry certifications and deep domain expertise in a specific sector accelerate the path.
Can I get a chief design engineer role with limited leadership experience?
Most employers expect candidates to have already led at least a small design team or served as the technical owner of a major product subsystem before hiring at the chief level. If your leadership experience is limited, targeting a senior or lead engineer role first lets you build the cross-functional ownership record that chief design engineer postings require. Documenting technical decisions, patents, and design reviews in your resume helps close the gap.
What does the chief design engineer interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial screening call, a technical phone or video interview focused on design methodology and past programs, and a panel interview with engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Candidates are typically asked to present a past project, walk through trade-off decisions, and demonstrate how they managed competing requirements. Some employers add a take-home design exercise or a whiteboard session on system-level architecture before the final offer stage.
Where can I find and apply to chief design engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to chief design engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search for roles that match your engineering domain and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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