Principal Product Manager - FlashBlade

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FlashBlade Product Team

The Product Management team is responsible for driving the roadmap for our Unified Fast File and Object product, FlashBlade. Product Managers focus on defining and driving features and capabilities, as well as being responsible for market and business analysis and product direction. The team works with cross-functional teams of Engineering, CTO office, Partners, Marketing, Sales as well as Executive Staff. The Pure Storage Product Management team defines and drives the future of the all-flash array market.

About the Role

This role will be one of the first product management hires in Prague and you will help shape the strategy, future direction of the product while working with engineering to deliver innovative and successful solutions to the market.  The unstructured data space is growing rapidly and FlashBlade is at the forefront of developing high performance object storage solutions that meet today and tomorrow’s needs. 

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

• Define overall product and feature requirements - future product strategy with sustainable and compelling differentiation based on customer needs, competitive analysis, market and technology trends.
• Support and enable the product and solutions teams to design scale-out storage and compute architectures.
• Drive overall roadmap, feature tradeoffs, prioritization and requirements for enterprise-class storage array systems.
• Drive roadmap based on market, technology, business and competitive analysis.
• Field/Sales – engage key account field sales teams and channel partners. Work with team to support sales process and drive the overall customer engagement model
• Foster an active ecosystem of customers and partners.
• Responsible for competitive material development and SE/Sales support materials, as well as customer presentations.
• Customer/Market Research – gather customer feedback to understand key issues/needs and trends in customer base.
• Work closely with the executive team to establish the scope and goals of the project and provide leadership for the project teams
• Present regularly to senior leadership as well help shape the future direction of the product via the roadmap.

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

• 15+ overall experience and 5+ years of experience in a product management or related roles (such as field sales engineering)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Critical problem-solving skills. 
• Ability to work with engineering to deliver projects. 
• Understanding of enterprise storage environments, deployments and use cases desirable. Knowledge of either NFS/SMB or S3 Protocols desirable.
• Experience and a solid understanding of product life cycles, release milestones, from concept inception to product end-of-life
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically
• Ability to work in a rapid pace environment with multiple and shifting priorities
• Consistent record of taking ownership and driving results.
• Ability to provide clear and timely product requirements and work with engineering to develop differentiated solutions that enable growth of the product. 
• Ability to work closely with the field organization on customer briefings and providing clarity on product capabilities and roadmap. 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent, Master’s Degree or a Business degree a plus.

 

• We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work from the {{OFFICE_LOCATION}} office in compliance with Pure’s policies, unless you are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave.

This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. 

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events - check out purebenefits.com for more information. 

 

 

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