Director – Engineering

OverviewJoin to apply for the Director – Engineering role at IBMIntroduction: 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.What You'll DoLead ecosystem strategy and innovation: Partner closely with Product Management and Design to develop and evangelize a cohesive vision for the provider ecosystemNavigate competing priorities from partners launching new products, evolving Terraform features, and growing demands of a rapidly-expanding customer baseSupport the team as innovation leaders, helping pilot new capabilities from incubation through internal adoption to market launchLeverage agentic AI opportunities to improve both internal development processes and create new product possibilitiesNurture vibrant Open Source communities around our key Providers, encouraging outside contributors and drawing on the breadth of skill and experience in the communityBuild Organizational Excellence: Develop shared processes, tools, and strategies across the AWS, Azure, and GCP provider teamsBreak down historical silos while maintaining team autonomy and expertiseScale the organization globally to support rapid growth in Terraform adoptionCreate clear visibility into team efforts, priorities, and resource allocationAdvocate And Connect Across (and Outside) The Organization: Serve as the primary connector between highly technical teams, open source communities, and business stakeholdersBuild and maintain relationships with Product Management, Partner Alliances, Support, and other key functionsTranslate technical complexity into business context and business needs into technical strategyRepresent the team's work and celebrate their accomplishments across the organizationFoster Team Growth And Resilience: Reduce stress and turnover by creating sustainable processes and clear prioritiesSupport career development for managers and individual contributorsExpand the team thoughtfully as scope and opportunities growBuild cross-team collaboration and mutual supportQualificationsRequired Technical And Professional ExpertiseDirector-level organizational leadership with proven ability to make wise tradeoffs between decisiveness and consensus buildingDemonstrated communication skills for working across time zones and building relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholdersCommunity leadership experience as a maintainer of active Open Source projects or as a community organizer, particularly in developer tools or infrastructureStakeholder management expertise with experience partnering across product, engineering, business development, and support functionsProcess and scaling experience including breaking down silos, developing shared tools, and growing distributed teamsTechnical credibility to represent complex technical work at a business level while asking intelligent questions about system architecturePreferred Technical And Professional ExperienceGo programming experience and familiarity with cloud provider APIsExperience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code toolsBackground in developer tools or infrastructure softwareGlobal team leadership experience across multiple time zonesProduct management collaboration experience in technical organizationsPartner ecosystem experience working with external developers and integrationsExperience in at least one major Cloud Service Provider’s (AWS/Azure/Google) architecture and offeringsEducationBachelor's DegreeAdditional DetailsThis job can be performed from anywhere in the US #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17