Director, Product Operations & Enablement

Director, Product Operations & Enablement This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

HPE Financial Services is seeking a Director, Product Operations & Enablement to lead the design, adoption, and evolution of the enterprise product operating model. This role is a senior people manager within the Strategy & Operations job family, accountable for ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across business product teams. The Director serves as the single point of accountability for planning cadence, governance alignment, enablement, and delivery health, while building and leading a high-performing Product Operations and Enablement team. The role reports directly to the Digital Strategy Leader to translate strategy into clear priorities, informed trade-offs, and measurable execution outcomes. As product maturity evolves, this role continuously refines frameworks, roles, and ways of working to ensure scalability, clarity, and sustained business impact. Enterprise Product Operating Model Ownership Own and evolve the enterprise product operating model, ensuring clarity of roles, decision rights, and execution standards across business product teams. Ensure consistent application of the operating model while enabling flexibility based on product maturity and complexity. Act as the enterprise steward of product operations standards and practices. Planning Cadence, Governance & Delivery Health Provide leadership with a unified view of digital product delivery health, team capacity, and execution performance across the portfolio Establish consolidated reporting that tracks digital product delivery health, capacity utilization, and execution performance as measurable indicators across all teams Surface real-time insights into delivery health, capacity, and execution performance to enable data-driven decisions across digital product teams Maintain a single, integrated view of digital product delivery health, capacity, and execution performance across all teams Strategy Translation & Leadership Partnership Partner with senior leadership to translate enterprise strategy into actionable priorities and execution plans. Guide prioritization discussions and trade-offs to ensure focus on highest-value outcomes. Provide leadership insight into product execution maturity, risks, and opportunities. Enablement & Maturity Evolution Own product enablement strategy, including playbooks, training, and adoption of standard practices. Continuously evolve frameworks, roles, and practices based on feedback, maturity assessments, and results. Establish measurement mechanisms to assess adoption and effectiveness of enablement efforts. People Leadership & Team Development Build and lead a team of Product Operations and Enablement practitioners. Provide clear direction, coaching, and performance management aligned to enterprise outcomes. Develop talent and succession capabilities to support long-term product maturity.

Education and Experience Required:

Management consulting experience highly desired. Prior corporate leadership. Achieved planned financial results at an organizational level. Acted as a senior executive in a global company responsible for operational efficiency. Exercised leadership on external business or industry boards. 10+ years total experience. MBA highly desired, or advanced university degree. Bachelors degree required.

Knowledge and Skills:

Strategic Planning & Implementation:

Orchestrates the development of strategic plans that reflects the company's business strategy to advance market share/penetration and achieve profitable growth.

Budget Management & Cost Optimization:

Establishes tracks and enforces spending parameters to protect the company's business and assets, and ensures their effective engagement.

P&L Management:

Sets and manages the business investments and resource allocations essential to ensuring the financial growth & health of the corporation.

Vertical Industry Acumen:

Develops and exercises a profound understanding of business dynamics within area of control, as a basis for informed business decision making.

Workforce Planning:

Builds acquisition and development strategies targeted to ensuring workforce readiness, and market opportunity responsiveness.

Execution Management:

Collaborates effectively with the company's BUs and value chain partners to ensure operational responsiveness to challenges, and alignment with business imperatives

C-Level Partnering:

Contributes to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promotes its total solution capabilities at the highest levels of an organization.

Business and Financial Acumen:

Exhibits authoritative business and financial acumen o develop meaningful business recommendations. Understands the portfolio aspect of the company's products/services and how the businesses work together.

Change Management:

Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.

Problem Solving:

Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensures comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.

Leadership:

Able to lead effectively in a complex and political environment, and deliver results; Able to influence without direct authority; Able to balance between competing priorities and be flexible and creative; Able to drive team performance to world class; Able to create and build highly effective teams and organizations; Able to communicate effectively across multiple levels in the company and the industry.

What We Can Offer You:

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.

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Director "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. -

United States of America:

Annual Salary

USD 143,500 - 347,500

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