Sr. Manager, Product Design

Your role and responsibilities

HashiCorp is at the epicenter of the cloud adoption wave, helping shape how the world's largest enterprises are running their IT infrastructure. We provide many of the most innovative companies with infrastructure automation solutions. Our product suite provides a consistent approach to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. We're designing and building the future of infrastructure tooling. That's where you come in: we're looking for experienced product design leaders to join our rapidly growing team.
As a Product Design Manager, you will lead a team of designers, providing direction and guidance, defining best practices for the design process, and partnership cross-functionally. You're someone with a strong design background, with an exceptional portfolio highlighting outcomes, who's moved into management to help other designers, providing mentorship and career development, ultimately creating a space for them to do their best work with their product teams.
Our design team, as well as the other cross-functional teams you'll work with, are largely remote. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.

In this role, you can expect to:
* Hire, manage, mentor, and inspire a team of product designers
* Lead your team effectively, providing design direction and pushing the quality of the work
* Focus the team, and company, on the user, making sure we're solving the right problems with the best solutions
* Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define requirements, and successfully execute
* Collaborate with the Design and HashiCorp leadership to set vision and strategy for key design objectives
* Contribute to our growing design team and design culture at HashiCorp

Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week subject to business needs.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Formal experience managing a group of designers
* Experience managing a remote distributed team of reasonable size
* Have a passion for scaling design within an organization and hiring talented designers
* Are a manager who leads by example, through their experience in the design practice, and can help solve challenging problems in a complex space
* Experience designing enterprise SaaS products
* Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
* Experience helping teams navigate ambiguity, strategically plan, and deliver

Preferred technical and professional experience

A dedication to modeling and supporting a positive and healthy work-life balance
* The ability to work well in an ego-free, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team
* Familiarity with HashiCorp and IBM Services and Solutions

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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.

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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), 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

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.