Senior Manager of Innovation, Advanced Services - UK (Staines/London), Prague, US (NY, Raleigh)
Pure StorageAbout the role
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry.
This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
Senior Manager, Solution Innovation, Advanced Services
Location: London, United Kingdom. Or RTP, North Carolina. Or New York. Or Prague.
About Everpure
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry.
This type of work that changes the world is what the tech industry was founded on. If you’re ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
The Role
The Senior Manager of Solution Innovation leads the identification, validation, and maturation of new service concepts aligned to Everpure’s Customer Experience Portfolio strategy. This role is responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of Practice Solution Architects, driving outcome-based service innovation that accelerates enterprise growth and customer transformation.
This organization focuses on validating customer demand, shaping solution requirements, and proving service concepts through customer engagement, pilots, and innovation cycles. The team also provides practice-level expertise to support strategic pre-sales engagements and complex service delivery scenarios.
You will operate at the intersection of portfolio strategy, customer engagement, sales, and delivery, ensuring new solutions are validated, refined, and positioned for operationalization. This role requires strong leadership, a services product mindset, and the ability to align portfolio, sales, product, and delivery organizations around measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Advanced Services Solution Innovation function, translating portfolio strategy into validated service concepts and customer-focused technical solutions
- Manage and develop a team of Practice Solution Architects aligned to key solution domains and business priorities
- Drive service innovation through structured ideation, validation, customer pilots, and feedback-driven refinement
- Align solution innovation to Everpure strategy, CX Portfolio priorities, and customer demand signals
- Partner with Sales, Field Solution Architects, and Delivery teams to support strategic opportunities requiring deep practice expertise
- Provide practice-level leadership and technical authority for complex customer engagements, helping shape service requirements and solution approaches
- Define and measure innovation success through adoption, deal influence, customer outcomes, and revenue impact
- Collaborate with Services Engineering and Delivery organizations to transition validated concepts into operationally supported offerings
- Foster a culture of innovation, customer engagement, domain expertise, accountability, and continuous improvement
What You Bring
- Experience leading teams within professional services, solution architecture, consulting, or innovation organizations
- Strong background in enterprise technology, transformation programs, or strategic customer engagements
- Experience validating new solutions or services through customer engagement, pilots, and real-world feedback
- Ability to operate across strategy and execution, translating business priorities into customer-focused solutions
- Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, portfolio, product, engineering, and delivery teams
- Experience supporting complex enterprise opportunities through solution leadership and domain expertise
- Commercial awareness, including services growth, customer adoption, and business outcomes
- Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data, AI, and cyber resilience
- Strong customer-facing presence with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence direction
- A bias toward action, innovation, and measurable outcomes
What Success Looks Like
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