Director Product Management, Disaster Recovery as a Service

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For ten straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

As the Director of Product Management for Pure’s Disaster Recovery as a Service offerings, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of product strategy, development, and delivery to build a business for Pure in the Infrastructure Disaster Recovery space. Leveraging your domain expertise, you will drive the strategic direction of our DRaaS offerings, collaborate closely with engineering, customers and other cross-functional teams, and ensure that the product aligns with our customers' needs and business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Define overall product and feature requirements and a product strategy with sustainable and compelling differentiation based on customer needs, competitive analysis, market and technology trends.
• Drive overall roadmap, feature tradeoffs, prioritization and requirements
• Engage with engineering, solutions, sales, operations, marketing and support teams to successfully bring the product to market. 
• Engage with sales teams and channel partners to support the sales process and drive the overall customer engagement model.
• Foster an active ecosystem of customers, partners, technology partners and vendors, both from the perspective of understanding their technology/product roadmap and influencing them to align with Pure strategy
• Oversee the creation of competitive and SE/Sales support and training material as well as customer presentations.
• Gather customer feedback to understand key issues, needs and trends in the customer base. Conduct market and technology analysis to get a broader sense of the market and competitive products.
• Mentor a high-performing product management team, providing guidance, coaching, and career development opportunities.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

• Hands-on experience with one or more leading Data Protection, Business Continuity and Cloud Disaster Recovery solutions 
• 7+ years of experience in Product Management  with an in-depth and hands-on understanding of the Data Protection & Disaster Recovery market.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• MBA is preferred
• Experience in leading teams, delivering White Papers, Best Practices Guides, Product Demos, presentations and Enablement content 
• Experience in delivering solutions for Managed Service Providers and/or SaaS solutions
• Broad, overall datacenter and software knowledge with significant enterprise technical depth in the areas of data protection software, storage solutions, networking, and security.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, agile development environment and manage multiple, concurrent priorities and projects
• Partner with engineering to define product release requirements, infrastructure augmentation, and capacity management.
• Manage the product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities including supporting operations with infrastructure augmentation and capacity management.
• You will be based in Santa Clara, CA. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in