Sr. Product Manager - Terraform

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 is the backbone of Infrastructure as Code, enabling users to manage resources across hundreds of services. At the core of this ecosystem are the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. These providers are the bridge between Terraform's declarative language and the vast, ever-evolving services offered by the world's leading clouds.

We are seeking a strategic and collaborative Product Manager to own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our foundational AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Providers. This is a unique opportunity to shape the core user experience for the vast majority of Terraform users. You will be at the center of the action, working directly with the world's leading cloud platforms, our Partner team, and dedicated engineering teams to define the future of cloud infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Ecosystem Strategy & Roadmap: Develop and communicate a unified product strategy and cohesive roadmap for the AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud providers, ensuring alignment with the broader HashiCorp Terraform vision.
• Roadmap Prioritization & Delivery: Lead the planning and prioritization process for three engineering teams. You will manage a complex backlog of feature requests from partners, community contributions, bug fixes, support escalations, and internal strategic initiatives to deliver maximum impact to our users.
• Partner Relationship Management: Serve as the primary product contact for our strategic cloud partners (AWS, Azure, Google). You will partner closely with our Partner Alliances team to manage relationships, align on joint roadmaps, and ensure timely support for new and updated cloud services.
• Cross-Provider Cohesion & Collaboration: Identify and solve for inefficiencies across the provider teams. You will champion initiatives to increase automation, create shared tooling, and standardize practices to improve development velocity and product consistency.
• Terraform Core Partnership: Forge a deep partnership with the Terraform Core product and engineering teams. You will be the voice of the providers, ensuring that new language features and platform capabilities are seamlessly adopted and provide a world-class user experience.
• Customer and Community Advocacy: Engage directly with our vibrant open-source community and enterprise customers to gather feedback, understand critical pain points, and champion their needs throughout the product development lifecycle.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally with developer tools, Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), or platform products.
• Deep domain expertise in at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and a strong technical understanding of the others.
• Demonstrable experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools; direct experience with Terraform is highly preferred.
• Proven ability to manage complex external partner relationships and navigate competing priorities from multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and prioritization skills, with experience making difficult trade-off decisions to drive the product forward.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate between highly technical engineering teams and business-focused partners.
• Experience working with and nurturing open-source software communities is a strong plus.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Humility: You listen to understand and collaborate effectively, recognizing the importance of community and teamwork.
• Curiosity: You're constantly exploring new ways to improve workflows and deliver value to both open-source users and enterprise customers.
• Ownership: You take responsibility for driving product success, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic vision.
• Clear Communication: You have the ability to explain complex ideas simply and effectively, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders.
• Reflective: You embrace feedback and seek continuous improvement in your work and the products you manage.

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.

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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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Client-provided location(s): Markham, Canada

Job ID: IBM-57335

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-09T18:52:27