Telco Program Manager

Job Description:

This role supports the Telco Infrastructure strategy by aligning customer and market requirements with HPE’s compute roadmap. Working closely with product management, engineering, and solutions teams, the candidate will translate Telco needs into structured, actionable inputs that drive platform development and portfolio readiness.

They will act as a key interface across teams, consolidating requirements, providing field and customer insights, and helping resolve technical and execution challenges to maintain momentum. The role also contributes to Telco enablement by coordinating cross-functional efforts to deliver validation outputs, field-ready collateral, and successful beta program execution.

Additionally, the candidate will support carrier-grade readiness by maintaining key portfolio assets and coordinating NEBS and compliance activities with engineering teams, ensuring timely and effective delivery of Telco solutions.

Roles and Responsibilities include:

• Support the Strategy Lead by consolidating and structuring product requirements, and working closely with compute product management, solutions, and engineering teams to ensure alignment between Telco Infrastructure BU and HPE Compute roadmaps.
• Assist in gathering and clarifying product requirements by translating market and customer needs into actionable technical inputs, leveraging customer knowledge and business, financial, and industry context.
• Work closely with engineering teams to communicate detailed requirements, track progress, and help resolve technical questions, while feeding field insights into product discussions and enablement planning.
• Lead Telco Enablement program core teams by coordinating cross-functional efforts to produce test reports and field-ready collateral.
• Execute beta programs for compute platforms, collaborating closely with engineering, sourcing, vendors, and lab teams to help ensure timely execution and cost-effective outcomes.
• Maintain Carrier-grade QuickSpecs and Carrier-grade product menu, and coordinate the NEBS enablement plan with NEBS experts and platform engineering.
• Act as a subject matter expert and communication interface between internal and external engineering teams to streamline information flow, unblock issues, and prevent execution delays.

Preferred Skills: 

• Strong communication and coordination skills across technical and business teams, with the ability to engage effectively with customers and internal stakeholders
• Self-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership of cross-organizational and cross-domain initiatives
• Ability to manage multiple parallel initiatives in a structured manner and work effectively in geographically distributed teams
• Solid understanding of O-RAN / vRAN (DU/CU), 5G Core architectures, Edge deployments, and carrier-grade Telco environments
• Familiarity with cloud-native telco infrastructure, virtualization, SDN, orchestration frameworks, and containerized network functions
• Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure in Telco, including GPU-based platforms, model deployment, edge inference, and automation use cases

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.

Job:

Job Level:

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

No Fees Notice & Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer

It has come to HPE’s attention that there has been an increase in recruitment fraud whereby scammer impersonate HPE or HPE-authorized recruiting agencies and offer fake employment opportunities to candidates.  These scammers often seek to obtain personal information or money from candidates.

Please note that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), its direct and indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and its authorized recruitment agencies/vendors will never charge any candidate a registration fee, hiring fee, or any other fee in connection with its recruitment and hiring process.  The credentials of any hiring agency that claims to be working with HPE for recruitment of talent should be verified by candidates and candidates shall be solely responsible to conduct such verification. Any candidate/individual who relies on the erroneous representations made by fraudulent employment agencies does so at their own risk, and HPE disclaims liability for any damages or claims that may result from any such communication.