Manager, Commercial Systems Engineering - Central North/Midwest

Pure Storage is fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry and is seeking a dynamic Systems Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team in their Commercial organization. In this pivotal role, you will guide pre-sales Systems Engineers to help innovative companies modernize their data strategies with cutting-edge storage and AI-driven solutions.

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 Everpure 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 Everpure 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Management experience leading high performing Sales Engineers selling in Commercial/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