Sr. Product Manager - Waypoint

About the team

HCP Waypoint is designed to enable platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to enable management of 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 with 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.

This role suits someone who has built platforms or portals for developers, worked with infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD tools, container orchestration and PaaS technologies, and has experience with enterprise software and clients. Waypoint is a rapidly migrating product with lofty aspirations. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to define the

roadmap, detail product requirements, and support go-to-market efforts. You will also help set product strategy, conduct user interviews, and oversee execution in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

HashiCorp is looking for candidates who have the core attributes to be successful product managers in the HashiCorp style. Attributes are more important than pre-existing skills.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

• Craft the product story by recognizing the landscape, user needs, and HashiCorp principles.
• Own and improve HCP Waypoint platform strategy documents to set the context for the product roadmap
• Prioritize the product roadmap by taking feedback from Waypoint customers, ecosystem partners, engineering, marketing, and the HashiCorp vision.
• Conduct user research and write Press Release/Frequently Asked Questions (PRFAQs), Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to distill the research into requirements for engineering to deliver.
• Work closely with engineering to write acceptance criteria for features and answer any questions they may have during implementation.
• Communicate product status to all partners and stakeholders. Keep sales and marketing updated on feature releases and keep engineering informed on feature requests
• Help with sales and marketing collateral to educate on the product story and features (Website copy, whitepapers, sales decks, FAQs, etc)

What you'll need (basic qualifications)

• 8+ years of product management experience with developer-facing products
• 1+ years of experience with internal developer platforms or portals (IDPs), Terraform, and one or more large cloud providers
• Comprehension with coding practices in modern programming languages like Java, Golang, Node, Ruby etc.
• Strong user and market research skills
• Ability to organize multiple stakeholders towards a common goal
• Analytical with the ability to prioritize and make tradeoffs
• Robust technical acumen, with a solid knowledge of infrastructure, and developer tooling
• Comfortable talking to developers and platform engineers to work on product discovery

Attributes we look for in successful product managers:

• Humility
• Pragmatism
• Listening to understand
• Explain complex ideas simply
• Written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Reflective
• Responsible and takes ownership over work
• Curiosity

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