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.

Your role and responsibilities

Overview

Nomad is HashiCorp's easy, flexible, and scalable application scheduler and orchestrator product. Nomad users can run a diverse workload of micro-service, batch, containerized and legacy applications using a common workflow. Nomad integrates seamlessly with existing HashiCorp tools for infrastructure lifecycle management (Terraform), secrets management (Vault), and service discovery (Consul). Due to its simplicity, scalability and multi-runtime nature, Nomad has been gaining significant market traction with enterprises.

This role is for someone who has experience with orchestration and application scheduling, to drive the development of Nomad. Work with internal and external stakeholders to define the roadmap, detail product requirements, and support go-to-market efforts. Work closely with the engineering team to support release cycles.

HashiCorp is looking for candidates who have the core attributes to be successful product managers in the HashiCorp style. Attributes are more important than pre-existing skills.

Responsibilities

• Craft the product story by understanding the ecosystem landscape, user needs, and HashiCorp principles.

  
  
  

• Prioritize the product roadmap by taking feedback from the community, enterprise customers, engineering, and the HashiCorp vision.

  
  
  

• Author detailed Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to distill user/market research into requirements for engineering to deliver

  
  
  

• Collaborate with engineering, design, PMM, and other internal stakeholders to execute on high customer impact product initiatives

  
  
  

• Communicate roadmap status to all stakeholders. Keep sales and marketing updated on feature releases and keep engineering informed on feature requests

  
  
  

• Conduct user research, write clear product specifications, and plan sprints

  
  
  

• Help with sales and marketing collateral to educate on the product story and features (Website copy, whitepapers, sales decks, FAQs, etc)

  
  
  

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

  
  
  

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 8+ years of product management experience with virtualization products

  
  
  

• 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 and open source

  
  
  

• Proven approach to delivering products with an eye toward End-User Experience

  
  
  

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with HashiCorp & IBM products and services