Creative Strategist (Houston, TX / San Jose, CA)

Creative Strategist (Houston, TX / San Jose, CA)    This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: HPE is seeking a Creative Strategist.  AI, hybrid cloud, and networking are changing what technology can do and what organizations can become. This creates an opportunity to rethink how we bring HPE’s innovation to life and help people understand why it matters.   The Creative Strategist will help shape that story.   Working across brand, marketing, content, design, web, product marketing, and executive communications, you’ll transform complex technologies and business ambitions into ideas people can understand, connect with, and remember.   We’re looking for an original thinker with a strong creative point of view. Someone who sees connections others miss, finds the essential idea within the complexity, and knows how to turn it into a compelling digital story.   Primary location: Houston, Texas (Hybrid) Secondary location: San Jose, California (Hybrid)   What You’ll Do:   • Develop original concepts and narratives for HPE’s most important stories. • Translate complex technology into clear, relevant, and human ideas. • Shape storytelling across HPE.com, campaigns, launches, thought leadership, events, social platforms, and emerging digital experiences. • Create narrative frameworks that connect HPE’s innovation with customer needs and meaningful outcomes. • Partner with writers, designers, marketers, producers, and subject-matter experts from early exploration through final delivery. • Guide creative work with a strong point of view and a high standard for clarity, originality, and craft. • Present ideas in ways that build understanding, confidence, and momentum. • Explore how AI, motion, interaction, and emerging formats can create new possibilities for storytelling. • Influence teams and senior stakeholders through creative expertise rather than formal authority.   What You’ll Bring   • 8+ years of experience in creative strategy, digital storytelling, brand strategy, content strategy, advertising, communications, or related creative discipline. • A portfolio or body of work demonstrating conceptual thinking, strategic storytelling, and strong creative judgment. • The ability to make complex business or technical subjects clear, engaging, and memorable. • Experience creating ideas for digital experiences, integrated campaigns, launches, thought leadership, or executive communications. • Strong writing, presentation, and visual communication skills. • Experience collaborating across creative disciplines and organizational boundaries. • The ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and confidently articulate the thinking behind an idea.   Preferred experience: Enterprise technology, B2B marketing, AI-enabled creative workflows, interactive storytelling, or global brand initiatives are valuable but not required.   How You Think:   Conceptually. You look beyond the first answer. You ask better questions, make unexpected c