Senior Product Design Manager - HashiCorp Secure

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be leading the teams that transform our customers' challenges into world-class solutions.

You will be leading a design team dedicated to Hashi Corp's industry-leading suite of security products. As the standard for cloud infrastructure automation, Hashi Corp products (like Vault and Boundary) are critical to the world's largest organizations. We are seeking a leader who understands the delicate balance between robust security and seamless developer experience.

Our door is open for a visionary leader who wants to build and guide a team to deliver winning results in the high-stakes world of Zero Trust security and identity management.

Your role and responsibilities

Your Role and Responsibilities

Join the worldwide design organization as a Senior Manager, Product Design for the Hashi Corp Security portfolio. In this role, you will guide a team of designers tackling some of the most complex challenges in software: making advanced security workflows (such as secrets management, privileged access, and identity-based security) accessible and intuitive for developers and security practitioners.

Your primary mission is to build a high-performing team and guide them to translate complex security paradigms into winning product experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

* Build and Guide High-Performing Teams:
Recruit, hire, and mentor top-tier design talent with a passion for developer tools and security. Foster a culture of psychological safety where designers feel empowered to challenge complexity.

* Simplify Security Complexity:
Guide your team in transforming intricate technical requirements (e.g., encryption, rotation, access control) into clear, usable, and safe user experiences. Champion the "secure by design" philosophy.

* Drive Winning Results:
Align design strategy with product roadmaps across our product portfolio. Ensure your team delivers work that drives adoption and reduces friction for our customers' Dev Ops and Platform Engineering teams.

* Strategic

Collaboration:

Partner deeply with Engineering, Product Management, and Security experts. Bridge the gap between technical feasibility and user-centric design to define the future of identity-based security.

* Operational Excellence:
Establish design patterns and workflows that accommodate the rigor required for security products while maintaining agile delivery speeds.

* Enable AI-Driven Design Practices:
Champion the integration of modern AI tools to deepen user experience research, spark rapid ideation, and accelerate the creation of advanced security experiences, while ensuring seamless collaboration from design concepts to technical execution with engineering and product management.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* Design Leadership: 5+ years of experience managing design teams, specifically within B2B, Enterprise Software, or Developer Tools.

* Complex Domain Expertise:
Proven track record of leading teams to simplify highly technical domains (e.g., Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Fin Tech, or Dev Ops).

* Team Building:
Demonstrated ability to build diverse teams and mentor designers through career growth, specifically helping them navigate technical ambiguity.

* Product Strategy:
Experience collaborating with product leadership to define vision and strategy for technical products, moving beyond just execution to influence the roadmap.

* Portfolio of Impact: A portfolio showcasing leadership in delivering complex software solutions that achieved measurable business success.

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Security & Identity Knowledge:
Familiarity with concepts such as Zero Trust, Secrets Management (Vault), IAM, or network security.

* Dev Ops/Cloud Fluency:
Understanding of the modern infrastructure landscape (e.g., Multi-cloud ecosystems, cloud-native identity/OIDC, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code) and the personas that operate them.

* Systems Thinking:
Experience leading the creation or scaling of design systems for enterprise-grade applications.

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