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Overview

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Introduction: A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes.

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.

What You'll Do

• Lead ecosystem strategy and innovation: Partner closely with Product Management and Design to develop and evangelize a cohesive vision for the provider ecosystem
• Navigate competing priorities from partners launching new products, evolving Terraform features, and growing demands of a rapidly-expanding customer base
• Support the team as innovation leaders, helping pilot new capabilities from incubation through internal adoption to market launch
• Leverage agentic AI opportunities to improve both internal development processes and create new product possibilities
• Nurture vibrant Open Source communities around our key Providers, encouraging outside contributors and drawing on the breadth of skill and experience in the community

• Build Organizational Excellence: Develop shared processes, tools, and strategies across the AWS, Azure, and GCP provider teams
• Break down historical silos while maintaining team autonomy and expertise
• Scale the organization globally to support rapid growth in Terraform adoption
• Create clear visibility into team efforts, priorities, and resource allocation

• Advocate And Connect Across (and Outside) The Organization: Serve as the primary connector between highly technical teams, open source communities, and business stakeholders
• Build and maintain relationships with Product Management, Partner Alliances, Support, and other key functions
• Translate technical complexity into business context and business needs into technical strategy
• Represent the team's work and celebrate their accomplishments across the organization

• Foster Team Growth And Resilience: Reduce stress and turnover by creating sustainable processes and clear priorities
• Support career development for managers and individual contributors
• Expand the team thoughtfully as scope and opportunities grow
• Build cross-team collaboration and mutual support

Qualifications

• Required Technical And Professional Expertise
• Director-level organizational leadership with proven ability to make wise tradeoffs between decisiveness and consensus building
• Demonstrated communication skills for working across time zones and building relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Community leadership experience as a maintainer of active Open Source projects or as a community organizer, particularly in developer tools or infrastructure
• Stakeholder management expertise with experience partnering across product, engineering, business development, and support functions
• Process and scaling experience including breaking down silos, developing shared tools, and growing distributed teams
• Technical credibility to represent complex technical work at a business level while asking intelligent questions about system architecture

• Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
• Go programming experience and familiarity with cloud provider APIs
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
• Background in developer tools or infrastructure software
• Global team leadership experience across multiple time zones
• Product management collaboration experience in technical organizations
• Partner ecosystem experience working with external developers and integrations
• Experience in at least one major Cloud Service Provider's (AWS/Azure/Google) architecture and offerings

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Details

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US