Director - Engineering

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

The Terraform Provider Ecosystem group, part of the Terraform Core Group at HashiCorp, is at the heart of advancing Infrastructure as Code by evolving Terraform as a product, language, and ecosystem. This group currently manages three of our most critical provider teams - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform - representing approximately 20 engineers who maintain the backbone of Terraform's cloud integrations.

As our ecosystem rapidly evolves with new innovations like Terraform Stacks, agentic AI capabilities, and expanding partner opportunities, we need a Director to guide this group into its next phase of growth and impact. This role will support the evolution of provider development, help break down silos between teams, and guide this group into a role helping lead industry-impacting innovations.

You'll be leading three strong teams with existing managers, but the real opportunity is in connection: developing shared processes, tools, and strategies that allow these teams to collaborate more effectively with each other and with the broader organization. This is about scaling from individual team excellence to ecosystem-wide and enterprise-scale impact.

We're looking for a technical diplomat with experience harmonizing the areas of deep technical work and business strategy, building bridges between engineering teams, product management, partner alliances, and other stakeholders while advocating for the team's needs and priorities.

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 incubationthrough 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

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

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

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Client-provided location(s): Abilene, TX

Job ID: IBM-53143

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-04T18:52:36