IBM
Product Designer - HashiCorp Infrastructure/Self-Serve
IBM, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, 01856
Product Designer – HashiCorp Infrastructure / Self‑Serve
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 explore 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 As a Senior Product Designer for Waypoint, you’ll help us maintain a focus on user experience across Waypoint and identify strategic opportunities for improvement and integration with Terraform. You’ll work with your cross‑functional peers to drive awareness and prioritize initiatives to improve the user experience measurably. You’ll contribute to product strategy and vision discussions and help drive alignment through the work of the team.
You’ll discover and specify strategic opportunities for improvement through generative research. You’ll inform product strategy, shape product design vision and direction and drive alignment across the team, and conduct evaluative research to recommend the best path forward.
In this role, you’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and other cross‑functional teams to envision innovative workflows for provisioning and delivering infrastructure over multiple public and private clouds, and improve the user experience measurably.
You will craft usable, useful, valuable, accessible, and delightful experiences for platform engineering teams, developers, and their organizations. You’ll guide, mentor, and collaborate with product designers across the team to ensure alignment.
About IBM’s Automation/HashiCorp Design Team We build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructureض Lifecycle Management (ILM): Build / Deploy / Manage.
Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on‑premises and across edge environments.
Vagrant isolates dependencies and their configuration within a single disposable and consistent development environment.
About Waypoint HCP Waypoint is designed to enable platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to manage applications at scale. Waypoint and HCP Terraform work collaboratively to let developers quickly set up their apps' infrastructure with just a button press. The goal of Waypoint is to help platform teams provide a clear and consistent developer experience for their development teams while providing a central catalog of applications, day‑2+ operations, and their associated metadata.
Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
You are a passionate and curious designer who thrives in uncertainty and ambiguity.
You have established yourself as a professional enterprise Product Designer.
You have experience designing for complex enterprise software for infrastructure, developer tooling, or developer experience.
You understand the importance of culture and building a fun, high‑functioning team.
You enjoy working collaboratively with a distributed remote team.
You value feedback, and seek ways to learn and grow as a designer.
You are a problem solver, you take ownership of your work, and you focus on delivering impact.
You are comfortable working across a distributed remote‑first team.
You are comfortable working on large scale projects.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
You have familiarity with or are willing to learn the key workflows involved in ILM products (Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, Waypoint, Nomad).
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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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 explore 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 As a Senior Product Designer for Waypoint, you’ll help us maintain a focus on user experience across Waypoint and identify strategic opportunities for improvement and integration with Terraform. You’ll work with your cross‑functional peers to drive awareness and prioritize initiatives to improve the user experience measurably. You’ll contribute to product strategy and vision discussions and help drive alignment through the work of the team.
You’ll discover and specify strategic opportunities for improvement through generative research. You’ll inform product strategy, shape product design vision and direction and drive alignment across the team, and conduct evaluative research to recommend the best path forward.
In this role, you’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and other cross‑functional teams to envision innovative workflows for provisioning and delivering infrastructure over multiple public and private clouds, and improve the user experience measurably.
You will craft usable, useful, valuable, accessible, and delightful experiences for platform engineering teams, developers, and their organizations. You’ll guide, mentor, and collaborate with product designers across the team to ensure alignment.
About IBM’s Automation/HashiCorp Design Team We build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructureض Lifecycle Management (ILM): Build / Deploy / Manage.
Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on‑premises and across edge environments.
Vagrant isolates dependencies and their configuration within a single disposable and consistent development environment.
About Waypoint HCP Waypoint is designed to enable platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to manage applications at scale. Waypoint and HCP Terraform work collaboratively to let developers quickly set up their apps' infrastructure with just a button press. The goal of Waypoint is to help platform teams provide a clear and consistent developer experience for their development teams while providing a central catalog of applications, day‑2+ operations, and their associated metadata.
Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
You are a passionate and curious designer who thrives in uncertainty and ambiguity.
You have established yourself as a professional enterprise Product Designer.
You have experience designing for complex enterprise software for infrastructure, developer tooling, or developer experience.
You understand the importance of culture and building a fun, high‑functioning team.
You enjoy working collaboratively with a distributed remote team.
You value feedback, and seek ways to learn and grow as a designer.
You are a problem solver, you take ownership of your work, and you focus on delivering impact.
You are comfortable working across a distributed remote‑first team.
You are comfortable working on large scale projects.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
You have familiarity with or are willing to learn the key workflows involved in ILM products (Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, Waypoint, Nomad).
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
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