Value Stream Office Program Manager - Digital Solutions

Value Stream Office Program Manager - Digital Solutions

Description -

Description
The Program Manager within the LF Value Stream Office is accountable for leading complex, cross‑product digital initiatives that span multiple value streams, platforms, and other teams. The role focuses on outcome delivery, alignment, execution and growth, ensuring that digital products evolve coherently while preserving team autonomy and fast learning loops.
The Program Manager enables effective ways of working by clarifying intent, aligning dependencies, and creating the conditions for high‑performing teams to deliver and capture customer value continuously.
This role acts as a strategic connector between Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, and Business stakeholders, translating strategy into executable initiatives and ensuring sustainable delivery, technical health, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Outcome Ownership

• Owns the end‑to‑end delivery of complex, multi‑team initiatives aligned to product strategy, customer outcomes, and business priorities, not just deliverables.
• Translates strategic objectives into clear program goals, success metrics, and measurable outcomes (value, adoption, quality, time-to-market) rather than feature‑based plans.
• Ensures alignment across teams while enabling decentralized decision‑making and accountability.
• Makes deliberate trade‑offs between scope, speed, quality, and investment.
• Communicates clearly, transparently, and with purpose

Cross‑Functional & Organizational Alignment

• Aligns diverse senior stakeholders around shared goals and outcomes.
• Acts as the primary integrator across Product Management, Engineering, Design, UX, Data, Marketing, and Operations, enabling decentralized execution while maintaining coherence across teams.
• Ensures product readiness includes adoption, enablement, analytics, and feedback loops, not just technical delivery.
• Identifies and manages dependencies across teams, platforms, and external partners with clarity of purpose and alignment.
• Facilitates effective stakeholder collaboration and senior leadership visibility.
• Keeps momentum in environments with changing priorities and ambiguity.

Execution in Modern Ways of Working

• Enables continuous planning, prioritization, and delivery rather than fixed‑scope, phase‑gated execution.
• Supports teams working with Scrum‑less, flow‑based, or hybrid agile practices, adapting governance to context.
• Drives disciplined execution through intent, cadence, and feedback loops.
• Makes data‑informed decisions based on meaningful metrics (flow, customer impact, etc) while embracing uncertainty.

Dependencies, Risk & Quality management

• Proactively identifies risks related to scope, dependencies, technology, capacity, and organizational dynamics.
• Understands enough technical context to challenge assumptions and trade‑offs
• Escalates effectively and early, focusing on options, trade‑offs, and impact rather than status reporting.
• Keeps leadership informed with contextual insights, not excessive reporting
• Ensures quality is built into delivery, not added last. Advocates for sustainable delivery, technical health, and reliability.

Platform & Ecosystem Thinking

• Works closely with architects and senior engineers to balance autonomy with technical sustainability.
• Identifies synergies with existing systems and evolving digital platforms.
• Navigates organizational complexity with empathy and authority.

Mentorship & Transformation Contribution

• Serves as a role model for modern program management and digital leadership. Embraces ambiguity and continuous change as the norm.
• Coaches product, engineering, and delivery leaders on outcome‑based planning and execution.
• Contributes internal communities of practice (VSO) and to the continuous evolution of the organization’s ways of working and delivery model.
• Models adaptability, learning, and resilience.

Knowledge & Skills

Strong background in product‑centric, agile, or flow‑based development models (beyond textbook Scrum).

Proven expertise in managing large, cross‑organizational programs with high uncertainty and changing priorities.

Ability to define, track, and interpret outcome‑oriented metrics (delivery health, flow, customer impact, reliability).

Solid understanding of software architecture, cloud‑based systems, APIs, and DevOps practices.

Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills at senior leadership level.

Analytical, systems‑thinking mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Typically, 10+ years of experience in digital product delivery, program management, or related leadership roles.

Experience in organizations undergoing or having completed digital transformation strongly preferred.

What success looks like

Success is shipping the right things, coherently, repeatedly, and measurable, while the organization gets better at doing it over time. Success is not shipping more.

Delivery & Execution

• Programs ship continuously with predictable flow.
• Dependencies are actively managed, not escalated late.
• Teams remain focused while leadership has confidence and visibility.

Product & Growth Impact

• Releases are launch‑ready and adoption‑aware.
• Products show measurable improvements in usage, customer outcomes, or growth indicators.

Organizational Impact

• Teams feel enabled, not constrained.
• Stakeholders feel aligned, not surprised.
• Other Program Managers and Product leaders learn from this role.

What You See

• Fewer last‑minute “fire drills”

• Clearer prioritization conversations
• Better trade‑offs between speed, quality, and sustainability
• A shared language around outcomes, flow, and value

What You Do NOT See

• Micro‑management of teams
• Delivery success defined purely by on‑time/on‑scope
• Metrics that do not influence decisions

What we offer:

• Opportunity to work in an international organization with colleagues coming from all over the world. 
• Diverse, continued internal growth and career opportunities. Including HP’s own learning platform and LinkedIn Learning. 
• An attractive benefits package: 
  • Health & Life insurance 
  • Lunch at reduced prices at our canteen/ ticket restaurant vouchers 
  • HP product discount 
• Work life balance / flexible working hours.
• Women, Pride, Young employees, Sustainability and DisAbility! Just a few of our fantastic global business networks you can get involved with locally.  
• We also dedicate time and resources to contribute with our community through Corporate Volunteering activities, including our onsite HP Charity day.
• Do you like to give back to the community? Then join one of our many volunteering teams or be a part of the incredible HP charity day held on site annually.  
• Love sports? Then take advantage of our sports center (indoor and outdoor) with 25+ regular coordinated activities.
• We have an onsite Doctor and medical team for our employees, including services such as: nutrition, physiotherapy, and general health.
• Printing Happy hour – from photographs to large posters. And Hands-on workshops to print with the latest technology – from wall covers to 3D printed models.
• Dedicated lactation room.
• Our Women Network organizes activities such as Networking, the promotion of STEM vocations, talks on, improving business acumen, work life balance and skills of the future, etc. 

GBU Entity (ES41)

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Engineering

Schedule -

Full time

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No shift premium (Spain)

Travel -

Relocation -

No

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