Manager, Product Operations

Manager, Product Operations

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Job Summary

The role

The Manager, Product Operations serves as individual contributor as the product-operations and executive-support partner to the Vice President of Product Management and the Consumer PC leadership team. A central responsibility is creating the internal leadership presentations, reports, and operating materials that support executive reviews, decisions, and organizational alignment. The role develops a trusted, current view of product performance, major initiatives, budget performance, Product Life Cycle (PLC) status, and organizational objectives and key results (OKRs), then translates that information into concise, decision-ready content.

The role applies the operating discipline associated with HP Chief of Staff organizations within a manager-level execution scope. Product leaders own strategy, product decisions, budgets, and PLC commitments. The Manager, Product Operations gathers and reconciles inputs, maintains the reporting system, coordinates preparation, surfaces exceptions, tracks actions, and uses tools and automation to simplify the organization's operating rhythm.

The role helps the VP and leadership team:

Prepare clear, accurate presentations for internal leadership forums.

Understand business and product performance.

Monitor strategic initiatives and OKRs.

See budget performance, forecasts, and material variances.

Communicate a clear, aligned narrative to internal stakeholders.

Core responsibilities

Internal leadership presentations and alignment

Own the coordination, development, and quality of recurring internal presentations for the VP and Consumer PC leadership team. Deliverables include weekly VP product updates, staff-meeting materials, quarterly business and product review decks, operating-review decks, product-performance reviews, budget and forecast reviews, roadmap and PLC presentations, strategic-initiative updates, decision materials, and broader internal communications.

Manage the full presentation workflow: establish the storyline, request and collect inputs, reconcile numbers and messages, improve charts and data visualization, identify pages requiring decisions, coordinate reviews and approvals, and deliver polished materials on schedule. Maintain reusable templates, presentation calendars, source links, review checkpoints, and clear contributor deadlines.

Performance and portfolio reporting

Maintain a unified management view of the Consumer PC portfolio, including product performance, major hardware and software programs, launch and PLC milestones, initiative health, risks, dependencies, and key operating measures. Coordinate inputs from Product Management, Finance, Engineering, Software, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing, Services, and other functions. Each contributing team maintains ownership of its authoritative source data.

Highlight changes and exceptions, including milestone movement, missed commitments, emerging forecast risks, areas of strong or weak performance, and topics that require leadership attention.

Budget and business-performance visibility

Partner with Finance and program owners to maintain clear reporting on plans, actuals, forecasts, major investments, program spend, savings and cost actions, and other financial commitments relevant to the Consumer PC product organization. Prepare concise views of financial performance, variances, drivers, risks, and actions for leadership reviews. Finance and business owners remain accountable for financial decisions, controls, and source data. The Manager, Product Operations coordinates reporting and ensures visibility.

Initiatives, OKRs, and operating cadence

Track major product and organizational initiatives, including each initiative's owner, objective, milestones, key results, current status, dependencies, applicable budget, risks, decisions, and next actions. Support weekly staff reviews, monthly operating reviews, quarterly business and product reviews, PLC forums, budget reviews, and strategic-initiative checkpoints. Maintain action and decision follow-through across review cycles.

Automation, analytics, and tools

Build an increasingly automated reporting environment using authoritative data sources, dashboards, APIs, workflow tools, low-code platforms, and AI. Automate recurring data collection, status reconciliation, KPI and OKR refreshes, budget views, reminders, variance detection, trend summaries, and first drafts of executive reports.

This role requires strong technical fluency in data, analytics, automation tools, and AI-assisted workflows. Success includes freeing product managers and functional leaders from recurring manual status preparation.

Global coordination

Work from Palo Alto across HP's global Consumer PC ecosystem. Key collaborators include product and engineering organizations, software and AI teams, Finance, Operations and Supply Chain, Shanghai and Greater China development and prototyping teams, original design manufacturers (ODMs), silicon partners, and software and platform partners. The role consolidates inputs and enables alignment across these groups. Functional and business leaders retain management accountability for their teams

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Initial 90-120 day priorities

Establish a trusted Consumer PC performance dashboard covering product performance, portfolio milestones, initiatives, OKRs, and key risks.

Establish a repeatable plan, actual, forecast, and variance view with Finance.

Create a weekly VP product report and recurring leadership-deck templates.

Map recurring operating forums, deliverables, contributors, and deadlines.

Automate the first high-frequency workflows for data collection, reminders, variance identification, and reporting.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate brings approximately 5-8 years of experience in product operations, business operations, program management, analytics, financial or business reporting, product-management support, or a related technology role. Strong spreadsheet, dashboard, data-analysis, and presentation skills are essential. The successful candidate is highly organized, accurate, persistent, comfortable coordinating across senior stakeholders, and skilled at turning fragmented inputs into concise, executive-ready reports and presentations.

Preferred experience includes PCs, consumer electronics, product lifecycle processes, budgeting and forecasting, Power BI, Tableau, presentation development, workflow automation, APIs, low-code tools, and AI-assisted productivity.

What success looks like

Leadership has a trusted view of product, initiative, OKR, budget, and forecast performance. Material variances become visible early. Quarterly reviews, operating reviews, PLC forums, and staff meetings arrive fully prepared. Internal presentations tell a consistent story. Risks, actions, and decisions receive reliable follow-through. Authoritative systems generate recurring reporting through automated workflows. Product managers and functional leaders can focus their time on product decisions and execution.

Detailed job description

The opportunity

HP is seeking a Manager, Product Operations to support the Vice President of Product Management for Consumer PCs and the broader Consumer PC leadership team. The role leads the preparation of internal leadership presentations and provides the reporting, coordination, and follow-through required to run recurring executive forums. Its scope includes executive operations, product portfolio reporting, business performance, financial visibility, strategic-initiative tracking, and internal communications.

Product managers and functional leaders own the PLC, product strategy, business plans, and individual product decisions. The Manager, Product Operations provides the operating and reporting layer that gives the VP a clear view of organizational performance: product results, plan attainment, initiative health, budget and forecast performan