Business Strategist - AI, Edge and Emerging Tech

The Technology & Innovation Organization (TIO) is a newly formed division at HP that is dedicated to driving technological advancements and fostering innovation across the company. Our vision is to transform HP into a technology leader that enables intelligence at the edge.

This is an exciting role that will help shape HP’s long-term ambition by defining where we play, how we win, and where new growth exists at the intersection of emerging technologies, customer pain points, and strategic whitespace. You will lead and articulate the enterprise-level strategy that guides HP’s future technology bets.

We are seeking a sharp strategic thinker with strategy consulting or corporate development experience, complemented by hands-on work in a start-up or technology environment. You bring a strong grasp of market and AI trends, can structure ambiguity, build compelling frameworks, craft clear narratives, and extract meaningful insights from complex data. You will lead market and competitive analysis, business plans, and investment theses while shaping HP’s innovation ecosystem across startups, VCs, and partners.

You will turn external signals into actionable recommendations for HP’s ELT and Board, connect customer pain points to business model choices, and drive clarity on where and how HP should play. The ideal candidate is analytical, creative, polished, and equally comfortable diving deep into details or elevating insights to inform top-level strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Narrative Development

• Lead the creation of strategic frameworks, hypothesis trees, and storylines that simplify complex technology spaces into compelling, executive-ready narratives
• 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 and Board decision-making—including vision statements, investment rationales, and long-term strategic choices
  
  

Market, Customer & Competitive Insight

• Conduct structured market, customer, and competitive analyses across GenAI, edge AI, multimodal, developer tools, and vertical-specific applications
• Synthesize disparate signals into actionable insights that clarify where HP has a right-to-play and how we win
• Build segmentation, TAM/SAM models, ecosystem maps, adoption curves, and category frameworks
  
  

Business Planning & Investment Thesis Development

• Build data-driven business plans that articulate opportunity size, economics, monetization models, costs, and risks
• Develop investment theses (build/partner/invest/acquire) that balance strategic rationale, financial considerations, and technical feasibility
• Partner with Corporate Development and HP Tech Ventures to evaluate external opportunities
  
  

Cross-Functional Influence

• Collaborate with engineering, product, TIO, and BU leaders 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
  
  

Ecosystem Engagement

• Engage deeply with startups, VCs, research labs, and partners to map emerging technology trends and identify strategic collaboration areas
• Help build HP’s innovation ecosystem and assess the long-term impact of nascent technologies on HP’s portfolio
  
  

Key Skills & Capabilities

Strategic & Analytical Excellence

• Structured problem solver with exceptional ability to break down ambiguous problems into crisp frameworks
• 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 (consulting-level): pyramid communication, frameworks, 2×2s, architectures, heat maps
• Comfort distilling complex technical content into concise, compelling messages
  
  

Insight Generation & Dot-Connecting

• Ability to “see around corners” and identify non-obvious connections between customer needs, technology shifts, and business opportunities
• Skilled at synthesizing large volumes of data, research, and technical input into actionable insight
  
  

Technical & Market Understanding

• Familiarity with AI/ML, cloud, edge compute, developer productivity, or device-centric software ecosystems
• Ability to engage credibly with senior engineers and technical leaders, even without being a hands-on developer
  
  

Consulting / Corporate Development DNA

• Rigor, structure, and pacing typical of top-tier consulting
• Ability to build theses, evaluate opportunities, and drive recommendations with data and narrative clarity
• Comfort working across senior stakeholders, executive reviews, and tight timelines
  
  

Education & Experience

• 10–15 years in strategy, corporate development, management consulting, or product strategy roles (top-tier consulting with hands-on business strategy experience strongly preferred)
• Experience building business plans, TAM analyses, investment theses, and executive narratives in emerging technology domains
• Experience working with (or adjacent to) AI, cloud, software, or advanced compute portfolios
• 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 strongly preferred, advanced technical or business degree a plus
  
  

The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $236,000 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

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• 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 (US benefits overview)
  
  

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.