Senior Third Party Firmware Program Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Fort Collins, CO

5d • $123,500 - $285,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Program Manager to establish and lead a cross-functional program governing third-party firmware incorporated into HPE products and solutions. The role will build an operating model to ensure supplier-developed firmware is identifiable, secure, supportable, traceable, and managed throughout its lifecycle, from product and supplier selection through deployment, vulnerability management, sustaining, and end of support.

The program spans third-party technologies including power and cooling infrastructure, CDUs, RDHXs, ARCS/MCS, PDUs, power shelves, inverters, SSDs, memory, and other supplier-provided devices containing field-upgradable firmware. The position is hybrid, with an average requirement of two days per week in an HPE office.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Sciences, or equivalent.
• At least 8 years of technical program management, engineering program management, product lifecycle management, or comparable experience.
• Extensive experience using project and program planning tools and software to create, manage, and track project results.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated business acumen and experience managing all aspects of programs, including stakeholder communication and directing matrixed teams and resources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and the local language.
• Ability to communicate program plans, proposals, and results effectively, and negotiate options at senior management levels.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs across engineering and business organizations.
• Experience with firmware, embedded systems, servers, infrastructure products, hardware lifecycle management, or related technologies.
• Working knowledge of firmware cybersecurity, vulnerability management, secure development, and supply-chain security.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers, Procurement, Supply Chain, and contractual requirements.
• Strong program governance, risk management, executive communication, and organizational influence skills.
• Ability to translate engineering, cybersecurity, supplier, and customer-support requirements into an executable operating model.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise operating model, RACI, decision rights, and escalation paths across engineering, Product Security, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Services, Product Management, and suppliers.
• Establish repeatable end-to-end processes for supplier qualification, firmware and security assessment, product qualification, release, deployment, updates, vulnerability response, sustaining, and end of support.
• Partner with Product Security and suppliers to establish requirements for secure firmware, vulnerability management, SBOMs, firmware signing and provenance, secure development, supply-chain cybersecurity, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Work with Procurement and Supply Chain to establish contractual expectations for firmware quality, availability, security updates, vulnerability remediation, support duration, incident response, and end-of-life notification.
• Establish decision criteria for HPE-branded versus supplier-branded products and clarify firmware ownership and lifecycle obligations before products are introduced.
• Ensure Services, field teams, and customers can identify shipped and supported firmware, obtain approved updates, understand upgrade requirements, and access clear HPE and supplier escalation paths.
• Drive decisions and close issues across organizational boundaries while leveraging established HPE and Compute processes where practical.
• Maintain program-level risks, metrics, and governance mechanisms, and translate technical, supplier, security, and lifecycle issues into clear leadership decisions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Career development programs to support professional goals and skill development.

What This Job Offers

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