Chief of Staff - CO Strategy & Transformation

HP • Palo Alto, CA

4d

About The Position

This Chief of Staff role will serve as the execution integrator and operating leader for CO Strategy & Transformation, ensuring that priorities translate into action, commitments turn into outcomes, and the organization operates with speed, clarity, and accountability. Acting as an extension of the leader, the Chief of Staff drives operating rigor across a diverse portfolio spanning AI Engines, Applied AI, Transformation, and GTM Strategy — creating alignment, enforcing accountability, surfacing risks early, and ensuring critical initiatives move forward with discipline and urgency. This is not a strategy-development role; the primary mission is execution, integration, governance, and organizational effectiveness. How this role works with the Head of Strategy The Head of Strategy leads strategy development and serves as the leader’s primary thought partner on strategic direction. The Chief of Staff owns execution, integration, governance, and operating rhythm — converting that strategy into delivered outcomes. The two roles are complementary and non-overlapping: strategy sets direction; the Chief of Staff ensures disciplined, accountable execution against it.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of experience in Chief of Staff, business operations, strategy execution, consulting, transformation, or similar operating roles.
• Comfort with AI tools, with the instinct to use AI, automation, and data to improve decision-making and accelerate execution.
• Exposure to AI / technology and commercial / GTM contexts, with the ability to connect technology and commercial impact to execution.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution and accountability across senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• Exceptional organizational and program-leadership skills.
• Strong judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and executive presence.
• High ownership, resilience, and bias for action.
• Experience operating in fast-moving, complex, global environments.
• Ability to influence leaders, drive difficult conversations, and maintain trust while enforcing accountability.

Responsibilities

• Establish a culture of ownership, transparency, and follow-through across the organization.
• Drive accountability for strategic priorities, commitments, milestones, and outcomes.
• Identify execution risks early and drive timely resolution and escalation.
• Ensure decisions are translated into actions with clear owners, timelines, and success measures.
• Design and run the operating system — business reviews, staff meetings, planning cycles, governance forums, and executive updates.
• Create visibility into performance through KPIs, OKRs, milestones, and portfolio-health metrics.
• Drive budget governance and resource discipline in partnership with Finance and organizational leaders.
• Continuously simplify processes and improve operating efficiency across teams.
• Maintain an integrated view across AI Engines, Applied AI, Transformation, and GTM Strategy.
• Break down silos, resolve cross-functional dependencies, and drive alignment across leaders and teams.
• Keep priorities, resource allocation, and execution plans aligned across the portfolio.
• Act as a neutral integrator focused on enterprise outcomes rather than individual team objectives.
• Increase leadership-team effectiveness through structured decision-making, preparation, and follow-through.
• Ensure leadership discussions focus on decisions, trade-offs, risks, and actions — not status reporting.
• Track leadership commitments and drive closure on agreed actions.
• Support organizational-health initiatives, employee-engagement actions, and leadership-effectiveness efforts.
• Develop clear executive narratives, updates, and business reviews that provide visibility into progress, risks, and impact.
• Ensure consistent communication and cascading of priorities across the organization.
• Support leadership engagements with clear, concise, data-driven materials.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed