Product Manager Graduate

Job Description

Product Management Graduate (Master’s/MBA) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The Tone:
This is a hybrid role at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, requiring an average of two days per week in an HPE office. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a global company focused on edge-to-cloud solutions, dedicated to advancing how people live and work. The company helps organizations connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications across all environments, from edge to cloud, enabling them to achieve desired outcomes quickly in today’s intricate world. HPE’s culture fosters continuous improvement and embraces varied backgrounds, offering flexibility for work-life balance and encouraging bold, collective action. This graduate position is crucial for the company’s product lifecycle, contributing to the development and management of solutions that meet evolving market needs, and providing opportunities for personal and professional growth.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, United States (California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin)
• Pay: $92,700–$213,500 yearly
• Mission: This person contributes to designing, planning, developing, and managing products throughout their lifecycle, from new product definition to end of life.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Product Planning: Contribute to the creation and refinement of the standard product development plan.
• Market Analysis: Collect and analyze data regarding customer requirements, identify target customer segments, and build business cases to introduce new or enhanced products to the market.
• Strategy Execution: Collaborate closely with key stakeholders to execute one or more product strategies across all phases of the lifecycle, including detailed planning, development, launch, ongoing management, and eventual exit.
• Financial Management: Operationalize established financial targets to ensure the product meets its performance objectives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Minimum a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study. This role is for individuals applying technical concepts and theoretical knowledge acquired through specialized training, education, or previous experience. It involves acting as a team member, providing information, analysis, and recommendations, and exercising independent judgment within defined parameters on assignments of limited scope.
• Experience: At least 1 year of work experience in a related field.
• Skills:
• Product Development: Possess a basic understanding of the product development process, from initial definition to end-of-life phases.
• Financial Analysis: Demonstrate basic skills in cost modeling to develop efficient solutions and analyze financial performance metrics.
• Business Acumen: Apply basic business acumen, including knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection to address product-related challenges.
• Technical Acumen: Maintain a technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry, along with the ability to provide product-specific technical training to team members.
• Bonus: An MBA or an advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred.