Commercial Notebooks Product Planner

HP•Houston, TX

13d

About The Position

HP is seeking a customer-focused product planner for its Business Notebook Product Planning team to lead planning for an innovative, high-impact Agentic AI-infused business notebook portfolio. The role focuses on understanding customer needs, defining differentiated product requirements and value propositions, positioning products in HP’s portfolio and against competitors, and shaping the story and experiences that support customer adoption. The planner works across customers and internal teams to develop insights, establish product priorities and success metrics, guide product trade-offs, and identify cost/value opportunities. The role also owns experience curation and customer journey planning, supports software ecosystem evaluation and readiness, and provides messaging inputs to product marketing and product NPI teams. The position is Houston-based or requires willingness to relocate to Houston, and involves 25% travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or a related field.
Fluency in English.
10+ years of experience in product management, product planning, or product marketing.
Customer-focused approach and passion for understanding customers’ spoken and unspoken needs.
Strong knowledge of marketing fundamentals and the creativity and confidence to develop innovative communications and solutions.
Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to translate complex technology into clear customer narratives.
Confident presentation skills.
Technical fluency, with a solid foundation and curiosity to learn quickly and become a subject-matter expert on key technologies and experiences.
Strong writing and collateral-creation skills; writing samples will be requested.
Execution-oriented, highly organized, and able to manage deadlines, stakeholders, and multiple workstreams.
Growth mindset, willingness to seek and use feedback, and ability to adapt and move forward.
Houston-based or willing to relocate to Houston.

Nice To Haves

MBA strongly preferred.
Experience with AI tools; Agentic AI strategy, planning, and associated use cases are a plus.
Knowledge of ARM silicon architecture.
Energized by experimentation and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

Partner with customers and HP insights, research, category, and data analysis teams to refine segmentation and personas, define use cases, identify market trends, and develop actionable insights.
Define differentiated product innovations, requirements, and success metrics; drive data-backed trade-offs validated through customer testing and proof points.
Identify cost/value optimization opportunities to improve PFV and fund new features and experiences.
Lead cross-team workshops and customer validation to develop and refine the product value proposition, experience priorities, and messaging.
Position the product within the HP portfolio and against competitive offerings, and create a competitive “how we win” story with clear proof points.
Influence product specifications, configurations, and attach rates to support launch claims, proof points, and demos for key experiences.
Develop a clear product narrative and create assets to communicate the product internally to stakeholders and externally to customers.
Map end-to-end customer journeys for key experiences and keep journey documentation current.
Communicate the integrated story of the product and its innovations, including what it is, why it matters to customers, and how HP can capture differentiated value.
Own the experience curation plan and ensure experiences are discoverable and easy to adopt.
Partner with cross-functional experts on deep dives to improve experiences; support software ISV evaluation, testing, demos, and selection.
Conduct competitive experience analysis to identify gaps, opportunities, and differentiation; provide messaging inputs to product marketing and product NPI teams.
Set deadlines, manage stakeholders, and drive projects to completion while balancing multiple workstreams.