Sr. Product Manager - HCP Terraform

Summary

At HashiCorp, we’re committed to simplifying and empowering the digital world. A cornerstone of this commitment is HashiCorp Platform(HCP) 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 Team. This is a vital role with a specific focus on HCP Terraform, our cloud offering and its ecosystem integrations. Your role will be centered around developing integrations and HCP TF services. You will also be involved in working with engineering teams to improve our partnership, commercial features for HCP TF.

In addition to managing and overseeing these critical tasks, your role will encompass the development and implementation of strategies to further enhance the 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.

Responsibilities:

• Craft the product story by understanding the landscape, user needs, and HashiCorp principles.
• Own and improve HCP Terraform strategy documents to set the context for the product roadmap
• Develop and 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 
• 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 capabilities and their value and work collaboratively with engineering on feature requests
• Help with sales and marketing collateral to educate on the product story and features (website copy, whitepapers, sales decks, FAQs, etc)

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ 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.
• Experience with product discovery practices working collaboratively with engineering and design
• 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 and open source
• Comfortable talking to developers and platform engineers to work on product discovery

Attributes we look for in successful product managers:

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

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)
• Conducting customer interviews
• Performing market research
• Backlog management