This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
As HPE transitions into a networking-led, AI-enabled infrastructure leader, the Vice President, Head of Investor Relations (IR) will serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership, shaping the company’s long-term investment narrative during this pivotal phase. The VP IR will lead efforts to enhance market understanding, broaden the shareholder base, and support the company’s growth agenda through compelling storytelling, strategic positioning, and operational excellence within the IR function.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Narrative Development: Translate HPE’s platform evolution, including recent acquisitions like Juniper Networks, and its integrated networking, compute, data management, hybrid cloud, and AI infrastructure strategies into a differentiated investment story that emphasizes long-term value creation.
Executive Advisory & Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, CFO, and senior management, providing guidance on investor communications, market positioning, and capital markets strategy. Lead proactive engagement with institutional investors, analysts, and other key stakeholders to articulate HPE’s transformation and long-term growth prospects.
IR Infrastructure & Process Management: AI-forward mindset and willingness to adopt AI (GenAI, Agentic AI) to modernize IR. Design and implement scalable IR processes, including earnings cycle activities, investor materials, Board reporting, and the deployment of systems that support rigorous, high-quality investor engagement. Introduce workflow efficiencies to enhance consistency, transparency, and strategic impact.
Market Intelligence & Strategic Positioning: Monitor investor sentiment, macroeconomic trends, and competitive landscape shifts. Provide insights to leadership to refine messaging and capitalize on market opportunities aligned with HPE’s networking, AI, and hybrid cloud strategies.
Broader Shareholder Development: Expand and diversify the investor base by targeting long-term, conviction-driven institutional investors aligned with HPE’s multi-market, AI, and infrastructure growth story.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with strategy, product, legal, finance, and corporate communications teams to ensure message consistency, mitigate risks, and reinforce the company’s long-term strategic themes.
Thought Leadership & Industry Representation: Demonstrate thought leadership by coaching executives on market positioning, influencing external perceptions, and establishing HPE as a leader in next-generation enterprise infrastructure.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience with leading an IR function within a large, publicly traded company, with established credibility to communicate complex strategic initiatives to sophisticated global investors and analysts.
- Ability to craft and communicate complex technical and strategic concepts into clear, compelling narratives for sophisticated investors.
- Operational expertise in IR infrastructure, including process design, data management, earnings cycle management, and stakeholder engagement systems.
- Strong executive presence, strategic thinking, and alignment-building skills across highly matrixed organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence at the C-level and across functions, with a collaborative, team-first leadership style.
- Minimum 12 years of experience, often including 8+ years of people management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Highly Preferrable:
- Deep understanding of technology markets, especially networking, AI infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and enterprise solutions.
- MBA highly desired, or advanced university degree.
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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Business PlanningJob Level:
Vice President"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 224,000 - 492,500 in California // 224,000 - 492,500 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
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Skills Required
- Proven experience leading an investor relations function at a large, publicly traded company
- Minimum 12 years of experience (often including 8+ years of people management experience)
- Bachelor's degree
- Ability to translate complex technical and strategic concepts into clear, compelling investor narratives
- Operational expertise in IR infrastructure, earnings cycle management, process design, data management, and stakeholder engagement systems
- Executive presence and demonstrated ability to influence at the C-level and across functions
- Proven experience engaging institutional investors and analysts globally
- AI-forward mindset and willingness to adopt GenAI and Agentic AI to modernize IR processes
- Deep understanding of technology markets, especially networking, AI infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and enterprise solutions
- MBA or advanced university degree
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hewlett Packard Enterprise and has not been reviewed or approved by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides six months of fully paid time for all parents and includes options to return part-time for up to 36 months. Additional supports like backup childcare, fertility and adoption assistance reinforce a family-friendly package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness Fridays offer paid early-finish time each month alongside resources such as on-site gyms, mental health tools, and paid volunteer time. These programs emphasize balance and personal well-being.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with a 100% match on the first 4% of base salary and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. Retirement Transition Support enables part-time work for employees nearing retirement.
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What We Do
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, college friends turned business partners, started the original Silicon Valley startup in the space of a rented Palo Alto garage. Starting with audio oscillators, the friends built the foundation for a company that would grow to become a global leader in enterprise technology. More than 75 years later, our success is exemplified through our employees’ drive to advance ideas that bring meaningful innovations to life for our customers and partners around the globe. We are guided by our mission to help customers use technology to turn ideas into value, and empower them to transform industries, markets and lives. We simplify Hybrid IT, power the Intelligent Edge and provide the expertise to make it all happen.









