HashiCorp is hiring a
Product Manager Senior

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Sentinel team as a Product Manager to drive Policy-as-Code throughout the product suite and lead the development of Sentinel. Your mission will be to enhance its capabilities and elevate policy management for the HashiCorp Product Suite and across the Cloud Ecosystem.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience with developer tools, infrastructure-as-code, or policy enforcement products
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and the HashiStack, including familiarity with Terraform and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• 1+ years of experience with infrastructure governance, policy frameworks, or compliance tools
• Familiarity with modern programming languages and policy definition languages (HCL, Sentinel, etc.)
• Strong technical acumen with a solid understanding of infrastructure security, compliance workflows, and policy enforcement
• Proven experience in creating and driving strategic product roadmaps with cross-functional teams
• Ability to balance technical depth with user-focused product design, ensuring that Sentinel remains a powerful but accessible framework
• Excellent communication skills: Able to simplify complex concepts and articulate the value of policy-as-code to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with user and market research to guide product decisions, backed by analytical rigor and the ability to prioritize effectively

Responsibilities

• Define and Build differentiated Policy workflows and enable fully compliant Infrastructure Management
• Define and own the product strategy for Sentinel with a focus on making it the industry-leading Policy-as-Code framework
• Drive alignment and deep integration between the Sentinel framework and key HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad)
• Drive Policy workflow across HCP Terraform and the HashiCorp Product Suite
• Lead efforts to advance Sentinel’s integration with Terraform for policy validation during infrastructure provisioning
• Collaborate with product teams across Vault, Consul, and other HashiCorp products to expand Sentinel’s policy enforcement capabilities
• Engage directly with enterprise clients and community users to gather insights into policy management needs, compliance challenges, and user pain points
• Conduct user interviews, usability testing, and customer discovery sessions to refine product roadmap and prioritize new features
• Own the Policy product roadmap, setting priorities by balancing market opportunities, user feedback, and strategic alignment with the HashiCorp vision
• Develop and maintain Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and user stories for engineering, ensuring that product objectives are clearly communicated and aligned with technical feasibility
• Collaborate closely with engineering to write acceptance criteria for Sentinel features and manage feature development from conception through delivery
• Stay at the forefront of policy-as-code trends and evolving industry standards to ensure Sentinel remains a cutting-edge framework
• Explore new features that can further automate policy management, enhance security and compliance workflows, and extend Sentinel’s utility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Collaborate with marketing, sales, and education teams to create compelling messaging around Sentinel’s value proposition for infrastructure governance, security, and compliance
• Lead product education sessions for internal teams (Sales Engineers, Support) and external customers, empowering them to articulate Sentinel’s capabilities and benefits
• Champion policy-as-code and Sentinel within the wider infrastructure-as-code and cloud management ecosystem
• Represent HashiCorp at industry conferences, webinars, and user groups to share Sentinel’s impact on policy-driven infrastructure management

Benefits

• Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training
• $195,500 — $230,000 USD (base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area)
• $179,300 — $210,900 USD (base pay range for this role in Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, New York (excluding NYC), Washington D.C., or California (excluding SF Bay Area))
• $162,900 — $191,700 USD (base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro) and Washington (excluding Seattle Metro))