Director, OCTO, Culture, Communities and Change

Director, OCTO Culture, Communities & Change

At HPE, we bring together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions and advance the way people live and work. Our legacy inspires us as we forge ahead, dedicated to helping our customers make their mark on the world. We’re solving the world’s most complex challenges, and our people are at the forefront of progress.

We are always looking for ways to accelerate and amplify our efforts. As we transform to an aaS company, HPE is searching for an experienced senior leader to join the Office of the CTO (OCTO) team to lead Culture, Communities and Change.

This role is a fit for you if you are looking for an opportunity to think strategically to synthesize and leverage what we have, lead an organization through a transformation and grow an organization of excellence. This is an opportunity to exercise leadership and influence skills.

The candidate will have excellent business acumen and an ability to focus teams for ROI and outcomes that deliver impact for HPE. Embracing a culture of diversity, inclusion and collaborative teamwork will be an absolute essential.

Success will be characterized by the following:

First - through a creative and thoughtful approach to creating foundations for a team newly formed to have clarity to their remit, adherence to common principles and understanding of how their work delivers impact for the company

Second - through the ability to drive alignment across OCTO as well as across HPE and drive outcome based execution that accelerates transformation and strategic goals.

Third - through fostering an always-learning approach that will enable the team members to evolve and grow to develop their own career potential. You will create the environment that fosters talent and growth opportunities as a beacon across the company for best-practice talent development

Responsibilities

External communications Partnership:

• Liaison with marketing, communications and other GTM functions to own and create a consistent technical CTO point of view across the market that signals an exciting balance of leadership in existing markets, innovation and thought leadership in new markets, and HPE as a trusted and reliable partner with a market-leading security and compliance posture

Internal communicationsPartnership:

• Establishing a regular rhythm for engagement across organizations inside OCTO, across R&D and throughout HPE enabling teams to come together with common purpose and energy for our transformative goals, and clarity as to their own roles in our processes.
• Elevate GreenLake’s visibility and brand by promoting GreenLake content through cross-company partnering.

Innovation programs:

• Ownership for driving programs and events that provide the rallying point for technical innovation across the company

Culture, including communities and DEI

• Ownership for programs that bring our communities together to enable inclusive working practices that create the environment for everyone in OCTO to do their best work.
• Foster high employee engagement using employee feedback to drive culture programs and transformation.
• Develop strategic plans to support organization Management of change.

CTO engagement:

• Ownership for coordinating consistency and maximum value for our CTO Office's engagement with customers and partners.

In this role, you will report to the VP SPO for OCTO and form part of the leadership team for SPO for the Office of the CTO, managing a multi-level team that structures work with impact across audiences from internal (OCTO, R&D and HPE) to external (customers, partners, influencers). Your ability to infuse enthusiasm and a growth mindset will be critical to establishing and driving a fresh culture in a fresh organization.

This role has been designated as ‘Edge’, which means you will primarily work outside of an HPE office