Sr. Product Manager - Terraform

About the team

At HashiCorp, we’re committed to simplifying and empowering the digital world. A cornerstone of this commitment is HashiCorp Terraform - an innovative platform that embodies our vision of providing seamless, efficient, and secure delivery of infrastructure provisioning and management. This powerful cloud service is a significant part of our infrastructure suite, enabling users to unify and automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources.

We are now seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our Terraform Cloud Team. This is a vital role with a specific focus on working with the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management teams responsible for post provisioning scenarios within HCP Terraform. Your role will be centered around ensuring HCP Terraform can implement infrastructure management requirements into the platform and providing customers a delightful experience in managing their HCP Terraform resources under management. This role will also work closely with teams working on core Terraform capabilities and with the broader HCP Platform.

In addition to managing and overseeing these critical tasks, your role will encompass the development and implementation of strategies to further enhance the resilience and effectiveness of HCP Terraform. If you’re eager to solve complex product management problems and have a passion for cloud infrastructure, we’d love to connect.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Craft the product story by understanding the landscape, user needs, and HashiCorp principles.
• Own and improve HCP Terraform Infrastructure Lifecycle Management strategy documents to set the context for the product roadmap
• Prioritize the product roadmap by taking feedback from Terraform practitioners, ecosystem partners, engineering, marketing, and the HashiCorp vision.
• Conduct user research and write Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to distill the research into requirements for engineering to deliver
• Work closely with engineering to write acceptance criteria for features and answer any questions they may have during implementation.
• Communicate product status to all partners. 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)

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• 8+ years of product management experience with developer 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.
• Strong system design & architecture skills
• Strong understanding of web technology - client-side vs. server-side, egress & ingress and basic networking concepts
• 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 and open source
• Comfortable talking to developers and platform engineers to work on product discovery

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Humility
• Listening to understand
• Explain complex ideas simply
• Written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Reflective
• Responsible and takes ownership over work

Skills you will practice as a product manager at HashiCorp:

• Defining the product roadmap and strategy
• Writing product requirements documents (PRDs)
• Leading sales engineer and support education sessions
• Enabling the go-to-market teams (sales, support, SEs, marketing)
• Conduct customer interviews
• Perform market research
• Backlog management

Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.

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