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Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

As the Product Management Leader for Infrastructure Self-Service & Developer Experience you will be a strategic leader responsible for defining, developing, and executing the product strategy that enables application developers to provision infrastructure easily, securely, and at scale. This role requires managing a team of Product Managers and driving the unification of core Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) products—specifically Terraform, Waypoint, and Packer—to deliver a seamless self-service platform. The central mission is to empower platform teams to establish "golden patterns" and simplify application deployment workflows, thereby providing a self-service experience for application developers.

As part of this role, you will manage and mentor a team of PMs dedicated to various facets of the self-service portfolio, ensuring alignment with the overall infrastructure products like Terraform, Waypoint, and Packer. We are looking for candidates who are eager to solve complex product management problems and have a passion for cloud infrastructure. We'd love to connect.

What you'll do

• Manage and mentor a team of PMs working on infrastructure products like Waypoint, Packer, and Terraform.

• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, and Sales to ensure high-priority initiatives are delivered

• Prioritize the product roadmap by taking feedback from customers, ecosystem partners, engineering, marketing, and internal vision.

• Conduct user research and write Press Release/Frequently Asked Questions (PRFAQs), Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to distill the research into requirements for engineering to deliver.

• Communicate product status to all partners and stakeholders. Keep sales and marketing updated on feature releases and keep engineering informed on feature requests
• Help with sales and marketing collateral to educate on the product story and features (Website copy, whitepapers, sales decks, FAQs, etc)
• Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore, are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week subject to business needs.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of product management experience with developer products
• 2+ years of experience in a direct people management role for managing product management teams delivering enterprise software products.

• 1+ years of experience with Terraform and one or more large cloud providers

• Familiarity with coding practices in modern programming languages like Java, Golang, Node, Ruby etc.

• Experience or deep understanding of the complexity associated with working with multi-cloud environments (CSPs) and various IT vendors.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Proven ability to deliver world-class enterprise products and tools.
• Experience or familiarity with internal developer platforms (IDP), service catalogs, and continuous delivery concepts.

• Demonstrated experience managing product management teams, defining roadmaps, and delivering complex enterprise software products.

• Deep expertise in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) domain, preferably with Terraform, and a strong understanding of the "Platform Engineer" and "Application Developer" personas.

• Strong user and market research skills

• Ability to organize multiple stakeholders towards a common goal

• Analytical with the ability to prioritize and make tradeoffs

• Strong technical acumen, with a solid understanding of infrastructure, cloud tools, and developer tooling

• Comfortable talking to developers and platform engineers to work on product discovery

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Sr. Manager, Product Management - HashiCorp Infrastructure Self-Service

Date posted

09-Jan-2026

Job ID

84828

City / Township / Village

LOWELL, San Jose, Austin

State / Province

Texas, Massachusetts, California

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Product Management

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

158,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

272,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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