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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 (not buffer) 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

Additional Details

• This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Education and Experience

• Preferred Education: Bachelor\'s Degree
• 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

Seniorities and Employment

• Seniority level: Director
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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