Corporate Strategy Expert

We are seeking an experienced, results-oriented strategy practitioner to join HP’s Corporate Strategy team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy as part of the HP Global Strategy & Transformation function. This team of strategy professionals is widely respected across HP and regarded as a seeding ground for HP’s future leaders. We work as a 'meritocracy' that appeals to and rewards high achievers. Your success paves the way for a rewarding career within Strategy or entry into one of HP’s businesses.

This role is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Narrative Development
  • Support the creation of strategic frameworks, hypothesis trees, and storylines that simplify complex technology spaces into compelling, executive-ready narratives
  • Leverage strategic and management consulting frameworks to implement a comprehensive portfolio approach for evaluating and managing the organization's diverse business units, platforms, and products
  • Develop clean, visually strong, and insight-driven slides that distill data, frameworks, and technical content into high-clarity recommendations
  • Craft strategic narratives that guide ELT decision-making—including vision statements, investment rationales, and long-term strategic choices
• Business Planning & Investment Thesis Development
  • Build data-driven long-term business plans that articulate opportunity size, economics, monetization models, costs, and risks
  • Work cross-functionally to manage Long-Term Planning process to ensure end-to-end alignment with strategic focus of the assigned BU
  • Develop robust business models and forecasts on where to play and how to win over 1-to-5-year horizons with recommendations on de-risked operational plans that drive alignment and accountability
  • Partner with GBU to evaluate and prioritize strategic investments within the long-term planning process, pressure-test key assumptions, and deliver insights benchmarked against industry standards
• Driving Thought Leadership
  • Consult with business executives on a wide range of issues related to the strategy formulation process, including risk management and new growth opportunities
  • Provide thought leadership and contribute to expanding the knowledge base within area of expertise, including developing new methods, techniques, and criteria for strategy analysis and recommendations
• Cross-Functional Influence
  • Collaborate with GBU leaders and Product teams to align opportunity framing with HP’s technology roadmap and capability strengths
  • Clarify what matters most, distilling customer needs into technology implications and strategic choices
  • Drive alignment across senior stakeholders and influence decision-making through structured, insight-led storytelling

Requirements

• 2-4 years in strategy, corporate development, management consulting, or product strategy roles (hands-on business strategy experience required)
• Experience building business plans, TAM analyses, investment theses, and executive narratives in emerging technology domains
• Strong financial modeling and business case development capabilities
• Demonstrated track record of crafting high-quality C-suite presentations and strategic recommendations
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, frame problems independently, and move quickly to insight and action
• MBA preferred, advanced technical or business degree a plus

Skills

• Strategic & Analytical Excellence
  • Structured problem solver with exceptional ability to break down ambiguous problems into crisp frameworks
  • Ability to build theses, evaluate opportunities, and drive recommendations with data and narrative clarity
  • Fluency in market analysis: TAM, segmentation, competitive dynamics, value chain analysis
  • Strong business model analysis (pricing, unit economics, monetization pathways, growth levers)
• Executive Storytelling & Visualization
  • Outstanding ability to build simple, clean, logical storylines that influence senior audiences
  • Strong slide-making and visualization skills: pyramid communication, frameworks, heat maps
  • Comfort distilling complex content into concise, compelling messages
  • Comfort working across senior stakeholders, reviews, and tight timelines

Pay

The pay range for this role is $105,050 to $161,800 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long-term/short-term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including:
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

Schedule

Full time, no shift premium (United States of America).