Job description
Overview
Terraform is the foundation of infrastructure-as-code, empowering organizations to manage infrastructure across diverse environments. Ensuring seamless migration and upgrade experiences is critical to enabling organizations to evolve their infrastructure while maintaining reliability and efficiency.
We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead and shape the future of Terraform Migration, ensuring users can transition between different configurations, organizational structures, artifact upgrades, and infrastructure states with minimal friction. This role will drive workflows that enable seamless migrations and upgrades across various Terraform environments, supporting both open-source users and enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Product Strategy and Vision:
- Define and execute the strategy for Terraform Migration, ensuring organizations can seamlessly transition between different infrastructure configurations and upgrade their Terraform resources efficiently.
- Identify key pain points and barriers in migration workflows and develop solutions that streamline and automate these processes.
- Work closely with the Terraform team to enhance Terraform’s migration capabilities while integrating these enhancements into commercial offerings.
- Develop a holistic view of infrastructure transitions, enabling organizations to migrate and upgrade their configurations with confidence.
Roadmap Prioritization and Delivery:
- Own and manage the product roadmap for Terraform Migration, prioritizing features that ensure smooth transition paths for Terraform users.
- Develop and maintain Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to guide engineering teams in building intuitive and scalable migration workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product improvements on time.
Customer-Centric Product Development:
- Engage directly with Terraform users and enterprise customers to understand migration challenges and develop solutions that minimize disruption.
- Conduct user research, interviews, and usability testing to refine Terraform’s migration and upgrade workflows.
- Develop intuitive tooling that simplifies migration processes, whether moving between different organizational structures, upgrading Terraform versions, or transitioning to new workflows.
Collaboration with Terraform Teams:
- Partner closely with the wider Terraform team to align on new capabilities that support seamless migration and upgrades.
- Ensure that Terraform’s new features and workflows can have a frictionless migration experience for users managing infrastructure at scale.
- Advocate for migration-friendly enhancements within Terraform’s ecosystem, ensuring alignment with broader product goals..
Go-to-Market Support:
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, and support teams to highlight the value of Terraform’s migration capabilities.
- Develop messaging and enablement materials that help organizations confidently transition between different infrastructure configurations.
Skills and Experience
- 3+ years of product management experience with infrastructure-as-code, cloud infrastructure, or developer tools.
- Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning workflows and Terraform’s ecosystem.
- Experience building migration or upgrade solutions in a technical product.
- Strong technical acumen with a deep understanding of cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, sales, marketing) to deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to prioritize features based on customer impact and strategic objectives.
Attributes We Look For in Product Managers at HashiCorp
- 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.
Skills You Will Practice as a Product Manager at HashiCorp
- Defining the product roadmap and strategy for a developer-focused infrastructure product.
- Collaborating with engineering and design to enhance workflows and create commercial differentiation for enterprise customers.
- Conducting customer interviews and user research to guide product decisions and prioritize development efforts.
- Managing a product backlog to deliver high-impact features that improve the user experience.
- Enabling go-to-market teams (sales, support, marketing) with product insights, messaging, and competitive differentiation.
Why HCP Terraform?
Terraform enables organizations to define and manage infrastructure at scale. As the ecosystem grows, seamless migration and upgrade workflows become critical for users looking to transition to new versions, organizational structures, and best practices. By joining the Terraform Migration team, you will play a key role in ensuring that users can confidently evolve their infrastructure without disruption. Your work will directly impact how organizations adopt, scale, and future-proof their Terraform deployments.
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