OS Technical Program Manager

HP•Spring, TX

2d•$116,150 - $182,400

About The Position

The PS Engineering, Integrated Solutions & Ecosystem team coordinates innovation opportunities with partners and aligns engineering workstreams across teams and stakeholders. It works with industry leaders to connect external innovation roadmaps with HP’s internal engineering execution and turn proofs of concept into market-ready features. HP is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead its strategic Microsoft partnership across HP Business Units and Vertical Solutions. The role coordinates cross-functional teams to deliver programs and features to markets and customers, setting goals in complex and sometimes ambiguous technical environments. It involves frequent interaction with senior leaders at Microsoft and executive leadership across HP Personal Systems Engineering, Business Units, and Pan-HP teams. The position requires a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or an equivalent technical field, typically with 6–10 years of experience. The successful candidate will bring program leadership and stakeholder-management capabilities, strong communication and analytical skills, and working knowledge of modern operating-system and platform architecture. The stated U.S. annual pay range is $116,150–$182,400, with additional opportunities for bonus and/or equity. Pay varies by location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or an equivalent technical field.
Typically 6–10 years of experience.
Experience designing and developing project and program planning tools to create, manage, and track project results.
Ability to lead and influence diverse teams and work effectively across cultural and time-zone boundaries.
Strong organizational, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills; ability to bridge technical teams with management and support teams.
Ability to communicate program and technical plans, proposals, and results, and negotiate options at senior-management levels.
Ability to bridge highly technical engineering teams and non-technical business and executive leadership.
History of innovation, with examples of developing new business, technical, engineering, and/or manufacturing processes.
Demonstrated business acumen and experience managing program activities, including executive briefings, scrum-team leadership or collaboration, negotiations with business groups, stakeholder communication, and direction of matrixed teams and resources.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong working knowledge of modern operating-system architecture and how the OS interacts with firmware, drivers, silicon, security, power, memory, connectivity, and application/runtime layers.
Ability to investigate new OS capabilities and translate them into platform requirements and product opportunities.
Curiosity about emerging technology trends, with self-directed learning and experimentation and the ability to form well-reasoned views on technology opportunities, trade-offs, and potential impact.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of local and hybrid AI architectures, including AI models, inference runtimes, CPU/GPU/NPU acceleration, memory requirements, model lifecycle management, security, power/performance trade-offs, and cloud/local execution.
Familiarity with agentic AI architectures, including orchestration, tool invocation, agent identity, isolation, permissions, context management, local/cloud execution, and OS integration.
Experience defining representative workloads and analyzing system performance, responsiveness, memory, storage, power, thermal, and compute behavior across CPU, GPU, and NPU architectures.
Experience guiding engineering teams in implementing and evaluating proofs of concept to validate technologies, architectures, and user scenarios.

Responsibilities

Manage and lead programs involving multiple functions and project teams, from ideation through solution implementation, with defined timelines and resources.
Serve as the central point of contact between Microsoft, HP Business Units, and IHV partners, aligning technical roadmaps with engineering teams across disciplines.
Guide engineering teams in implementing proofs of concept, coordinate with multiple parties, and ensure learnings are captured and shared.
Drive innovation and integrate new technologies and quality initiatives into projects to deliver solutions to market.
Develop and direct key milestones, critical deliverables, and other program support requirements.
Lead and influence efforts across Pan-HP Business Units to ensure representation and implementation using HP processes.
Communicate program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to stakeholders and executives.
Turn complex program data into clear progress reports, risk analyses, and escalation paths for HP executives and partner stakeholders.
Review and evaluate program plans and provide tangible feedback to improve the quality and efficiency of the organization’s program-management framework.