Director – Engineering
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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
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Salary:
- $250,000 +
- Category:
- Engineering