Software Product Manager Jobs in Georgetown, TX (NOW HIRING)

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HP is looking for an experienced Product Manager to refine, build, and continuously evolve our Device Certification and Platform Readiness program. This role owns the endtoend framework that ensures new hardware devices and peripherals are consistently onboarded into HP manageability and application experiences with predictable quality, readiness, and scale.

This is a platformoriented product role focused on operationalizing excellence. You will establish clear certification tiers, readiness criteria, and gotomarket gates so every device launch meets a consistent baseline for manageability, reliability, and user experience.

Responsibilities

Program & Framework Ownership

• Define and own the Device Certification and Platform Readiness program, including certification tiers, acceptance criteria, and lifecycle expectations for device integration touch points.
• Establish a standardized readiness framework for all hardware NPIs entering:
  • Device Manageability
  • Cloud services
  • Desktop, mobile, and room application experiences
• Continuously evolve the framework as platforms, devices, and customer expectations change.

NPI Integration & Readiness

• Partner with hardware product teams to embed certification requirements early in NPI planning.
• Ensure new devices meet defined quality bars before broad customer exposure or sales enablement.
• Identify and manage gaps across firmware, cloud, app, and operational dependencies.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to guide feature development and prioritization.
• Translates user requirements into executable and workable feature items with the software engineering team.

Platform & CrossTeam Alignment

• Work closely with engineering, cloud operations, QA, UX, support, documentation, and GTM teams.
• Translate platform capabilities and constraints into clear certification rules and launch requirements.
• Acts as an advocate for the stakeholders during specification and development stages.
• Align certification criteria with broader platform standards and servicelevel expectations.

Operational Excellence

• Define metrics to measure certification maturity, launch readiness, and postlaunch quality.
• Establish ingest, validation, and exceptionhandling processes.
• Drive continuous improvement using customer feedback, operational data, and incident learnings.

Communication & Enablement

• Clearly document certification levels, expectations, and device status for internal stakeholders.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for device manageability readiness within the ecosystem.
• Enable sales, support, and partner teams with clear expectations and launch confidence.

What Success Looks Like

• Hardware NPIs enter the HP Manageability ecosystem through a predictable, repeatable certification process.
• Launch readiness is clearly understood, measurable, and trusted across teams.
• Device quality and manageability consistency improves over time.
• Stakeholders are able to trust and executing launches.

Education & Experience Recommended

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, platform product management, or technical program ownership.
• Proven ability to design and operationalize structured frameworks across multiple teams.
• Experience working with hardware, firmware, or devicecentric software platforms.
• Strong systems thinking and comfort managing dependencies across engineering, cloud, and operations.
• Strong written communication skills with a bias toward clarity and precision.
  Preferred
• Experience with device manageability, SaaS platforms, or cloudconnected hardware ecosystems.
• Familiarity with tiered quality models, certification programs, or maturity frameworks.
• Experience driving NPI readiness or launch governance in complex organizations.

Knowledge & Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Automation
• Change Management
• Computer Science
• Continuous Improvement Process
• JIRA
• Kanban Principles
• Milestones (Project Management)
• New Product Development
• Process Improvement
• Product Management
• Project Engineering
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Project Schedules
• Risk Management
• Scrum (Software Development)
• Software Development
• Sprint Planning

Cross-Org Skills

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope
Impacts multiple teams and may act as a project leader providing direction to cross functional team activities and facilitates information validation and team decision making process.
Complexity
Responds to moderately complex issues within established guidelines.
Disclaimer
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Compensation and Benefits

The pay range for this role is$110,300.00 - 159,950.00USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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