Hiring: Competitive Intelligence Lead — AI Software & Hardware (Edge AI) Company: HP Location: Spring, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:54:44 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Data Pipeline, LLM About the job Experience: •8+ years in competitive intelligence, corporate or competitive strategy, equity research, management consulting, or product/market strategy — ideally touching technology hardware, semiconductors, or software Required Skills: •AI is redefining personal computing, and it is happening fastest at the edge — as inference, agents, and models move onto the device. This role owns HP Personal Systems' understanding of that shift: who is building it, who is winning, and what it means for our strategy. •Lead a small, high-caliber team that keeps a live pulse on the entire PC Competitor portfolio and AI ecosystem across software and hardware, turns raw signal into sharp strategic insight, and briefs to several senior management levels from division strategy teams to division presidents and the PS president. •Run deep, continuous competitor analysis. Build and maintain living intelligence on the core competitive set — Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, Acer — and the emerging challengers, including Honor, Huawei, Xiaomi, and innovative smaller and regional players. Cover product roadmaps, AI positioning, go-to-market, partnerships, and overall pricing changes. •Benchmark business and financial performance. Lead quarterly earnings analysis and business-performance comparison across the competitive set. •Maintain POV on the AI ecosystem and edge-AI picture. Maintain a living map of the AI landscape across the full stack — models and software, devices, and the companies enabling AI at the edge. Develop and defend a point of view on which workloads are moving on-device, how fast, and who is driving the transition. •Anticipate, don't just report. Run scenario and war-gaming exercises to model likely competitor and ecosystem responses, and recommend HP's pre-emptive posture — moving the function from "what happened" to "what is about to happen and what we should do first." •Maintain an emerging-threat radar. Provide early warning on the players that don't show up in a standard benchmark — startups, new form factors, agentic devices, and regional entrants — before they become obvious. •Build the intelligence engine. Stand up AI-augmented tooling, data pipelines, and a shared knowledge base so the team delivers at a scale and speed a manual approach never could. Qualifications: •Operational familiarity with AI-augmented research tooling and LLM-based research workflows. •A global market perspective, including China/APAC OEM dynamics and the export-control and regulatory landscape shaping the sector. •MBA or a relevant advanced degree. Compensation: •$147,050 - $230,850 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!