Senior Product Design Manager - HashiCorp Secure

Location: LOWELL, San Jose, Austin, Texas, Massachusetts, California, United States Employment type: Regular Work arrangement: Hybrid Position type: Professional Travel required: Some travel may be required based on business demand Company: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Date posted: 09-Feb-2026 Job ID: 81451 Area of work: Design & UX Shift: General (daytime) Commissionable/sales incentive based position: No Projected Minimum Salary per year: $161,000.00 Projected Maximum Salary per year: $276,000.00

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 HashiCorp’s industry-leading suite of security products. As the standard for cloud infrastructure automation, HashiCorp 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

Join the worldwide design organization as a Senior Manager, Product Design for the HashiCorp 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 for industry standards like Vault and Boundary. Ensure your team delivers work that drives adoption and reduces friction for DevOps 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.
Community & Ecosystem: Understand the open-source roots of HashiCorp. Guide your team to design with the developer community in mind, balancing open-source flexibility with enterprise-grade features.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master'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, FinTech, or DevOps).
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.
DevOps/Cloud Fluency: Understanding of the modern infrastructure landscape (Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, CI/CD pipelines) 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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This position was posted on 09-Feb-2026; anticipated posting duration: 21 days or less if filled sooner. IBM will not provide visa sponsorship now or in future; candidates must have ability to work without sponsorship. Salary varies by skills/experience/location; pay increments per employment classification/laws; part-time roles compensated pro-rata.