Staff Product Manager

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Infrastructure products team as a Product Manager for their Suite of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management products. This vital role involves unifying infrastructure products, regularly meeting with the Customer Advisory Board and other customers, identifying and prioritizing Jobs To Be Done and Critical User Journeys, and collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams. You will craft the product story, lead the Customer Advisory Board, meet with industry analysts, own strategy documents, develop and prioritize the product roadmap, conduct user research, write PRDs, communicate product status, and help with sales and marketing collateral. The ideal candidate possesses extensive product management experience with developer products, experience with Terraform and cloud providers, strong communication skills, and a solid understanding of infrastructure and open source.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience with developer products
• 2+ years of experience using Terraform and one or more large cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Comfortable interfacing and communicating with customer executives in both business sponsor and technical decision maker roles
• 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

Responsibilities

• Craft the Suite product story by understanding the landscape, user needs, and HashiCorp principles
• Lead the Customer Advisory Board (CAB) and regularly meet with CAB members to get ongoing feedback that is incorporated into our plans
• Regularly meet with industry analysts for feedback and translating industry trends into our plans
• Own and improve Infrastructure Lifecycle Management strategy documents to set the context for the product roadmap
• Develop and prioritize the product roadmap by taking feedback from practitioners, ecosystem partners, engineering, marketing, and the HashiCorp vision
• Conduct user research and write Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to distill the research into requirements
• 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, white-papers, sales decks, FAQs, etc)
• Act as an escalation point for product issues in the suite and help facilitate resolutions

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• $263,500 — $310,000 USD (SF Bay Area / NYC)
• $241,500 — $284,100 USD (California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland)
• $219,600 — $258,300 USD (Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro))