Distinguished Technologist, Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Portfolio & AI Innovation

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Durham, TX

19d • $170,000 - $412,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Opportunity HPE Hybrid Cloud is seeking an experienced Distinguished Technologist, Product Manager to lead portfolio-level product management execution across the Hybrid Cloud business and serve as the executive lead for the Hybrid Cloud Product Management Council. The successful candidate will implement AI-PDLC capabilities, operationalize Product Management Council decisions, drive cross-functional execution, and deliver measurable business outcomes through disciplined program leadership, innovation execution, and continuous improvement. This role serves as the portfolio-level Product Management leader for Hybrid Cloud, integrating roadmaps, delivery dependencies, operating rhythms, and product management practices across independently managed business units while driving AI adoption and portfolio execution excellence. A significant focus of this role will be accelerating adoption of AI-enabled Product Development Lifecycle (AI-PDLC) practices by coordinating cross-business-unit readiness, integrating dependencies across product and engineering teams, and ensuring metrics are tied to customer, delivery, and operational outcomes. You will work as part of a cross functional team to accomplish this and will need significant influencing skills to accomplish the goal. As the leader of the Hybrid Cloud Product Management Council, you will act as a connective force across the portfolio, aligning and integrating cross-business-unit dependencies across customer outcomes, AI innovation investments, portfolio simplification, platform execution, quality improvements, and execution excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field required, MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
• Must have 15+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex enterprise software, cloud, infrastructure, or platform products.
• Demonstrated experience aligning and integrating roadmaps, priorities, and dependencies across multiple product lines or business units.
• Deep understanding of enterprise software, cloud platforms, AI technologies, and modern product development practices.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders in matrixed organizations.
• Experience building and leading cross-functional governance forums, councils, or strategic initiatives.
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with AI products, GenAI, LLM platforms, agentic systems, or AI infrastructure.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled product development processes.
• Experience leading portfolio transformation initiatives.
• Experience working across large-scale enterprise software portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Hybrid Cloud Product Portfolio Leadership: Lead portfolio-level product management execution across the Hybrid Cloud organization. Drive alignment of business-unit roadmaps priorities to support integrated Hybrid Cloud execution. Own cross-portfolio roadmap dependency management, ensuring critical dependencies, risks, and delivery blockers are identified, tracked, escalated, and resolved across business units. Establish portfolio-wide mechanisms for roadmap transparency, dependency management, execution tracking, and customer outcome measurement. Drive resolution of roadmap conflicts, execution challenges, and cross-functional delivery issues. Partner directly with business unit leaders to ensure delivery dependencies are visible, commitments remain on track, and measurable operating outcomes are achieved.
• Product Management Council Leadership: Establish and evolve the mission, operating model, governance, and effectiveness of the Product Management Council. Foster collaboration across product organizations representing multiple Hybrid Cloud businesses. Surface and resolve portfolio-wide product challenges, roadmap conflicts, customer needs, and cross-functional dependencies. Drive adoption of common product management frameworks, tools, processes, and best practices. Facilitate sharing of innovation, market insights, competitive intelligence, AI initiatives, and product management learnings across business units. Partner with Architecture, CTO, Security COE, Quality Council, Customer Experience leaders, and Engineering leaders to ensure alignment across councils and governance bodies. Act as a portfolio-level voice for product management within Hybrid Cloud leadership discussions.
• Product Management Transformation: Lead the transformation and modernization of Product Management across Hybrid Cloud, establishing a consistent operating model, governance framework, portfolio management discipline, and best practices. Champion and measure adoption of AI-enabled Product Management and AI-PDLC practices to improve product quality, engineering productivity, innovation velocity, and customer outcomes. Develop & Implement Product Management capabilities across Hybrid Cloud through community building, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and leadership development. Drive continuous improvement in investment prioritization, business case development, customer outcome measurement, and portfolio performance.
• Executive Stakeholder Management: Build alignment among product, engineering, architecture, customer success, operations, marketing, finance, and sales leadership. Prepare executive recommendations supported by business cases, market insights, competitive analysis, and customer feedback. Present portfolio recommendations, cross-business-unit dependencies, and execution risks to senior leadership teams. Act as a trusted advisor to Hybrid Cloud executives on portfolio integration, roadmap dependencies, and delivery decisions.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive