Director Product Management, Flasharray

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Position OverviewWe are looking for an exceptional product manager who will be at the forefront of building and expanding Pure's FlashArray business.
In this role, you will lead Pure's Unified Block and File efforts and engage with leading innovation and technology companies around the world for the purpose of building the next generation of storage technology.
You will need to think strategically and creatively about how our data platforms can evolve to solve ever-changing business critical application needs or archiving extreme large data set and then take this down to the implementation level by giving engineering guidance in terms of requirements.
As a business leader, you will measure your success based on the overall health of the business and our ability to meet/exceed company and market share growth targets while also ensuring your product is delivered on time.
The successful candidate will have that rare combination of best in class technical skills and business acumen and be a highly effective communicator and collaborator with a demonstrated history of working successfully across all levels of an organization.
The right person will be highly curious, analytical and is motivated to always push for higher growth and improved performance - a person who does not settle for "good enough".
ResponsibilitiesAct as quarterback across Product, Engineering, GTM and finance to develop and drive our FlashArray.Perform deep business analysis to spot trends, uncover opportunities and lead the overall rhythm of the business reporting and operational excellence.Partner with BU leadership and finance to set the business growth related targets and OKRs for your product/service.Drive execution of this strategy to build a high growth business within a multi-billion dollar addressable market including on premises, hybrid and cloud native deployments.Assess the competitive and market landscape from both a technical and business perspective and accurately predict trends.You will collaborate with customers, partners, Sales and Marketing to identify, define, and articulate a winning use case centric go-to-market model.Build and know core customer journey metrics to ensure adoption of new products and features that drive customers to renew, buy or add on services.Gather customer feedback to understand key issues, needs and trends in the install base.Conduct market and technology analysis to get a broader sense of the market and competitive product use.Work closely with the executive team to establish the scope and goals of growth initiatives and provide leadership for the program teams.Engage with key account field sales teams and channel partners to support the sales process and drive the overall customer engagement model.You will be a key participant with a cross functional team focused on technical alignment and business development with key ecosystem partners.You will be a key spokesperson and evangelist for Pure and must be able to deliver compelling presentations to a wide variety of internal and external audiences.Create and deliver both business and technical presentations to customers, partners, and a wide array of Puritans.Qualifications7+ years Product Management or Technical Product Management experienceExperience in managing a team of 5+ Product Managers across a broad range of product areasStrong technical aptitude – this is a high velocity continuous learning environmentExperience in SAN, NAS, Networking or core Data Center infrastructure technologies – with particular focus on NFS/SMF/FCP/iSCSI/NVMe protocols, L2/L3 networking and VMware virtualizationUnderstanding and insight into storage technologies and use cases, such as Data Access, Disaster Recovery offerings, Enterprise security concepts, Application optimization/performance, migration workflows.Experience in driving innovation strategy across a product portfolio and successfully implementing/launching the productExpertise on product lifecycle management across large/complex customer environmentStrong background in customer engagement, use case identification and problem resolutionHigh bias for action and execution with strong drive to achieveDirect experience driving successful field marketing programs is highly desired.Possess a blend of business and technical savvy that includes the ability to build and drive impact with teams across multiple disciplines, especially field teamsAnalytical and data-drivenPossesses excellent written/verbal communication; can communicate concisely and persuasively.A Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree is required, or equivalent experience.
MBA strongly preferredDemonstrated ability to have conceived and executed multiple, extremely complex projects.Must be willing and able to work in an open office, team environment.Pay RangeUSD $228,000.00 - USD $342,000.00 /Yr.
Pay Transparency StatementSalary ranges are determined based on role, level and location.
For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations.
This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.
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