Workstation Planning Architect

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HP Advanced Compute Solutions is seeking an experienced engineering architect to investigate, predict, and plan our Desktop Workstation platforms aligned to current and future customer workflow requirements. This person will be part of an R&D Strategic Planning and Technologies Team providing technical leadership to anticipate, imagine, and innovate the course for our future platforms, components, and solutions.  This role is based in Taipei, Taiwan but will communicate and align closely with US based planning teams.

Responsibilities

• Create platform concepts, definitions, and plans and contribute to portfolio strategies in partnership with other planning technologists and product planners.   Influence and enable cutting edge technology, design, and experiences into future solutions.

• Deeply understand workstation customer workflows and strategic technology trends and use these insights to propose competitively advantaged solutions with the highest performance, richest features, and leadership market value.

• Actively seek HP unique innovation and differentiation and fully align to our customer’s solution requirements anticipating and driving future technologies into solution choice points.

• Create and contribute to platform planning roadmaps, detailed performance data and projections, and competitive analysis maps to plan and optimize our portfolio advantages in the market.

• Collaborate and influence across engineering disciplines and cross-functionally throughout the business to interpret and translate customer insights, champion and defend customer portfolio and solution objectives, and maintain course during product development.

• Drive solution, portfolio, and module-level strategies to enable greater leverage and to lower cost, complexity, and investment.

Are you a high performer? We are looking for an individual with:

• 10+ years total experience in Engineering, Product Planning, Strategy & Planning, or related functional area

• A bachelor's or master’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and significant experience with compute architecture.

• A successful candidate will operate both collaboratively and independently challenging traditional approaches and constraints, defending and aligning customer benefits and impacts, and validating a strong business impact and ROI.

• Candidates must have flexibility and commitment to work in Taiwan and US time zones to actively coordinate business investigations, planning, and communications in support and defense of portfolio and solution requirements.

• Strategic thinking, communication and presentation are key requirements for this role.   Candidates will approach planning from a customer perspective driving solution requirement rather than component requirements and apply business acumen to guide decisions and align stakeholders.

• Advanced project management skills including schedule and risk management, resource prioritization, and structuring and guiding projects that are not fully defined to execution handoff.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to gather insights and apply both engineering and business judgement to accelerate decisions.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence skills (in both Mandarin and English preferred)

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