Pure Storage · 1 day ago
Manager, Enterprise Systems Engineering - Chicago
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $228K/yr
10+ years expPure Storage is a company reshaping the data storage industry with innovative technology. They are looking for a dynamic Systems Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of pre-sales Systems Engineers, guiding them in helping major companies modernize their data strategies with cutting-edge solutions.
Cloud ComputingData StorageEnterprise Software
Responsibilities
Demonstrate effective people development in a rapidly evolving technical space
Act as an employee advocate who is focused on team and people development, demonstrating high EQ
Have a desire to drive operational excellence; create a team support creation and validation of technical demand
Lead by example, living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, Customer-first
Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage solution
Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities
Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
Enable team to:
Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
Author responses to RFI & RFPs when needed
Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
Qualification
Required
5+ years of Management experience leading high performing Sales Engineers selling in Enterprise Accounts
10+ years experience supporting the sales of storage, networking or systems solutions to a combination of large accounts and data centers
Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
Prior experience in setting team strategy to acquire new prospects and converting them into clients
Knowledge of business impact of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
Knowledge of VMWare, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Benefits
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Company
Pure Storage
Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$529.26MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceIndex VenturesRedpoint
2015-10-06IPO
2014-08-11Secondary Market· $60M
2014-04-22Series F· $225M
Leadership Team
Charles Giancarlo
CEO and Chairman
John Colgrove
CTO
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