Product Designer - Terraform

IBM
IBM

Product, Design

Posted on Nov 11, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

About Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) & Terraform

IBM’s Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) Design Team builds the Infrastructure Cloud, enabling modern enterprises to take a unified approach across the build, deploy, and manage phases of their infrastructure journey. Our design team creates workflows that dramatically ease the complexity and operational overhead of multi-cloud environments, allowing practitioners and platform teams to focus on high-value innovation rather than repetitive manual tasks. Guided by our core principles of Kindness, Humility, and Reflection, we design with the user at heart and our 'beauty works better' ethos in hand.

At the core of ILM is Terraform, the industry-standard Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform that empowers organizations to provision and manage any cloud, on-premises, or edge infrastructure.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Product Designer for Terraform, you will own the user experience for key features and workflows across Terraform and its integrations with the broader IBM product family. Working as a core member of an agile cross-functional squad, you will turn complex technical concepts into clear, accessible, and elegant user journeys that span web graphical interfaces, AI-assisted user interactions, command-line interactions (CLIs), version control systems (VCS), and APIs.

In this role, you will actively leverage AI-driven design tools and practices to accelerate design discovery, wireframing, and rapid prototyping. You will partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to validate concepts through user testing, analyze telemetry data, and deliver impactful outcomes for platform engineers and developers worldwide.

You can expect to:

  • Execute User Research & Testing: Analyze user data and feedback to inform feature design decisions. Create personas, user journey maps, and wireframes, and conduct usability testing to validate iterative solutions.
  • Leverage AI Design Innovation: Demonstrate proficiency with modern AI tools to boost daily design productivity, streamline research synthesis, and contribute to tactical AI-driven features in product workflows.
  • Craft Cohesive Feature Workflows: Design intuitive end-to-end workflows across Web UI, CLI, and developer integrations, ensuring technical feasibility, responsive behavior, and exceptional visual and interaction quality.
  • Apply Agile Design Practices: Actively participate in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives), balancing multiple deliverables and iterating rapidly based on stakeholder and user feedback.
  • Utilize Design Systems & Standards: Apply and contribute to design systems (Helios and Carbon), ensuring consistent UI patterns, component scalability, and compliance with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA).
  • Collaborate & Communicate: Facilitate ideation sessions, communicate design rationale persuasively using data and user insights, collaborate with cross-functional peers, and mentor early-career teammates.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 3–5+ years of professional enterprise Product Design experience shipping production web applications, technical B2B platforms, or developer-facing software.
  • Demonstrated interaction and systems design craft: Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design of complex multi-step workflows, information architecture, wireframing, high-fidelity UI, and interactive prototypes.
  • Complex technical mental models: Ability to comprehend and design for technical domains and abstract workflows (e.g., configurations, permissions, state management, logs, or error recovery).
  • AI-driven design tool proficiency: Active and daily use of modern AI design tools (e.g., LLM-assisted research synthesis, AI prototyping tools, prompt engineering for ideation) to accelerate delivery.
  • User research & usability validation: Experience conducting qualitative user interviews, usability tests, and incorporating product usage telemetry into iterative design cycles.
  • Design systems fluency: Proven experience utilizing and adhering to enterprise design systems (e.g., Figma component libraries, auto-layout, design tokens, WCAG 2.2 AA
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Developer tooling & CLI familiarity: Direct experience or foundational understanding of developer workflows—such as command-line interfaces (CLIs), Git/version control workflows, or CI/CD pipelines.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure awareness: Basic familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud) or infrastructure concepts (containers, virtual machines).
  • Technical prototyping / Front-end literacy: Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/React or Code Connect, enabling seamless collaboration with front-end engineers.
  • Experience in agile squad environments: Track record of driving feature-level design decisions within fast-paced agile sprint cycles.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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