Full-Time

Principal Product Manager

Virtualization

Updated on 3/13/2025

Pure Storage

Pure Storage

5,001-10,000 employees

Data storage solutions and services provider

Compensation Overview

$174k - $284kAnnually

+ Incentive Pay + Equity

Senior, Expert

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Santa Clara, CA, USA

This is an office-centric role, requiring presence in the office for 4 days a week.

Category
Product Management
Product Strategy
Product
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Product Management
SQL
Oracle
Requirements
  • 7+ years Product Management, Technical Marketing, and/or Marketing experience.
  • Experience in VMware, Kubernetes, or core infrastructure technologies.
  • Experience with SQL, Oracle, and SAP HANA (and similar databases) use cases and related customer strategy.
  • Technical expertise with VMware vSphere technologies--with particular focus on block and file-based integrations and features.
  • Understanding and insight into storage technologies and use cases, such as disaster recovery offerings and migration workflows.
  • Expertise on the VMware stack and ecosystem--with particular focus on the cloud-based models such as Azure VMware Solution, VMware Cloud on AWS, and others.
  • Familiarity with disaster recovery, storage integrations and related use cases.
  • Understanding of VMware configurations and details of NFS, block (NVMe-oF, VAAI, and vVols), as well market adoption and uses of those technologies.
  • High bias for action and execution with strong drive to achieve.
  • Possess a blend of business and technical savvy that includes the ability to build and drive impact with teams across multiple disciplines, especially field teams.
  • Analytical and data-driven.
  • Possesses excellent written/verbal communication; can communicate concisely and persuasively.
  • A Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree is required, or equivalent experience. MBA strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to have conceived and executed multiple, extremely complex projects.
  • Must be willing and able to work in an open office, team environment.
Responsibilities
  • Act as quarterback across Product, Engineering, GTM and finance to develop and drive our virtualization related storage business.
  • 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 deployments.
  • Assess the competitive and market landscape from both a technical and business perspective and accurately predict trends.
  • 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.
  • Be a key participant with a cross functional team focused on technical alignment and business development with key ecosystem partners.
  • 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • Direct experience driving successful field marketing programs is highly desired.

Pure Storage specializes in data storage solutions, providing businesses with advanced technologies to manage and protect their data. The company offers a range of products, including all-flash storage arrays that utilize flash memory for faster data access compared to traditional hard drives. Additionally, Pure Storage provides a subscription service called Evergreen One, which ensures clients receive continuous updates and maintenance for their storage systems without needing to replace hardware. This approach allows businesses to keep their technology current and efficient. Pure Storage differentiates itself from competitors by focusing on sustainability and innovation in its offerings. The company's goal is to deliver efficient and environmentally friendly data storage solutions that meet the diverse needs of clients across various industries.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • Collaboration with Micron and Kioxia enhances hyperscale data center solutions.
  • GenAI Pod reduces AI project complexity and cost, attracting enterprise clients.
  • FlashBlade//S500 certification with NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD boosts AI data center appeal.

What critics are saying

  • Competition in AI storage solutions market threatens Pure Storage's market share.
  • Rapid NAND advancements by competitors may outpace Pure Storage's offerings.
  • Reliance on partners for NAND technology exposes Pure Storage to supply chain risks.

What makes Pure Storage unique

  • Pure Storage's GenAI Pod simplifies AI deployment with turnkey solutions.
  • FlashArray//C20 targets smaller deployments, expanding market reach to smaller enterprises.
  • DirectFlash technology offers unparalleled performance and scalability for hyperscale storage.

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Benefits

Insurance, Health & Wellness - Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance, Dental Insurance, Disability Insurance, Gym / Wellness Reimbursement, Health Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Life Insurance, Maternity Leave, PTO (Vacation / Personal Days), Paternity Leave, Vision Insurance

Home - Business Travel Insurance, Immigration Assistance, Phone Bill Reimbursement, Remote Work

Financial & Retirement - 401k 100% match on the first 3% of base salary, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

0%
Bell Integration
Mar 5th, 2025
Bell Integration & Pure Storage Unveil AI Innovation at LEAP 2025

Bell Integration joins Pure Storage to introduce 'Noura' the AI avatar.

PR Newswire
Feb 5th, 2025
Pure Storage Announces Date And Conference Call Information For Fiscal Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2025 Financial Results

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced it will host a conference call on Wednesday, February 26 at 2:00 p.m. PT to discuss its financial results for fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2025 ended February 2, 2025. This conference call will be held following the release of Pure Storage's financial results.Fiscal Q4 and Full Year 2025 Conference Call DetailsA live audio broadcast of the conference call will be available at the Pure Storage Investor Relations website at investor.purestorage.com. A replay will be available following the call on the Pure Storage Investor Relations website or for two weeks at 1-800-770-2030 (or 1-647-362-9199 for international callers) with passcode 5667482.Additionally, Pure Storage is scheduled to participate in the following investor conferences:Bernstein Insights: What's Next in Tech? 3rd Annual TMT ForumDate: Thursday, February 27, 2025Time: 3:00 p.m. PT / 6:00 p.m

Enterprise Times
Jan 8th, 2025
Pure Storage And Micron Expand Collaboration For Hyperscale Data Centers

The joint effort continues a decade-long initiative of integrating Micron's latest NAND technology with Pure Storage solutions, which spans seven generations and includes the Micron G8 QLC NAND qualified for production in Pure Storage's 150TB DirectFlash Module.

GEC Newswire
Dec 9th, 2024
Pure Storage Introduces New Genai Pod To Accelerate Ai Innovation

Pure Storage has announced the expansion of its AI solutions with the new Pure Storage GenAI Pod, a full-stack solution providing turnkey designs built on the Pure Storage platform. Organizations can use the Pure Storage GenAI Pod to accelerate AI-powered innovation and reduce the time, cost, and specialty technical skills required to deploy generative AI (GenAI) projects. Pure Storage also announced the certification of FlashBlade//S500 with NVIDIA® DGX™ SuperPOD™, accelerating enterprise AI deployments with Ethernet compatibility.Innovative Turnkey, Full-Stack Validated Designs for Automated Deployment of GenAI InitiativesCompanies today face significant challenges deploying GenAI and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in private clouds. This includes navigating the complexity of deploying hardware, software, foundational models, and development tools that power GenAI workloads in a timely and cost-effective manner. At the same time, they need a single, unified storage platform to address all of their storage needs, including the most critical challenges and opportunities posed by AI.The Pure Storage GenAI Pod, built on the Pure Storage platform, includes new validated designs that enable turnkey solutions for GenAI use cases that help organizations solve many of these challenges. Unlike most other full-stack solutions, the Pure Storage GenAI Pod enables organizations to accelerate AI initiatives with one-click deployments and streamlined Day 2 operations for vector databases and foundation models

PR Newswire
Dec 3rd, 2024
Pure Storage And Kioxia Collaborate To Drive Scalability, Efficiency, And Performance In Hyperscale Data Centers

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced a collaboration with Kioxia Corporation ("Kioxia"), a world leader in memory solutions, to develop cutting-edge technology that addresses the growing demand for high-performance, scalable storage infrastructure among today's hyperscale environments. Industry Significance:. Traditional storage solutions, particularly those relying on hard disk drives (HDDs), struggle to meet the demands of hyperscale environments due to their limited speed, scalability, reliability, and excessive power consumption. HDDs are ill-equipped to handle the massive, fast-growing volumes of data generated in these environments without introducing latency and bandwidth limitations, and are difficult to scale and integrate seamlessly into modern data centers