Enterprise Data & AI Evangelist, Data Management

Pure Storage•Santa Clara, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Enterprise Data & AI Evangelist is a senior individual-contributor role serving as a technical voice for Everpure with customers, partners, analysts, and the field organization. The role connects customer needs, product development, and market strategy, using enterprise engagement and technical expertise to influence how the market understands data intelligence, which opportunities the company pursues, and what products are developed. The position has no direct reports and works with a globally distributed team across time zones and cultures. The Evangelist builds executive relationships, advises customers on large-scale deployments, and provides technical leadership on complex sales campaigns. The role also channels customer insights to Product and Engineering, supports product roadmap decisions and innovation, represents Everpure in industry settings, and develops narratives and demonstrations for the broader field. The position is customer-facing and includes roughly 25% travel.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in enterprise data, analytics, or AI, including experience in a senior technical or architectural capacity.
Significant experience in large-scale enterprise environments, ideally with customer-side exposure deploying and operating complex technology at scale.
Experience engaging C-level stakeholders and influencing board-level conversations.
A track record of working across pre-sales, product, and customer environments.
Deep, current expertise across modern data platforms, cloud architecture, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic systems.
Strong business acumen and ability to translate technology into measurable business outcomes.
Experience shaping product direction using customer and market insight.
Ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with near-term commercial priorities.
Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and executive presence, with emotional intelligence to read a room.
Ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders as well as engineers and architects.
Strong influence without authority in a matrixed, non-hierarchical organization.
Collaborative and globally minded, and comfortable working across time zones and cultures.
Driven by impact and outcomes, and comfortable challenging the status quo.
Curious and forward-looking about emerging technology.
Willingness to work hands-on on prototypes, architectures, technical problems, and workshops.
Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced, customer-facing role.
Willingness to travel roughly 25%.

Nice To Haves

Experience with analyst relations, press engagement, or industry representation is advantageous.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain senior executive relationships across strategic enterprise and global accounts, including board-level stakeholders.
Lead strategic technology discussions, contextualize long-term vision for customers, and challenge customer thinking when appropriate.
Advise customers on large-scale deployments based on real-world experience, and engage beyond active sales opportunities.
Provide executive-level technical leadership on complex sales campaigns and escalations.
Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering on account strategy.
Lead executive briefings, quarterly business reviews, and strategic workshops.
Relay customer requirements, use cases, and priorities to Engineering.
Partner with Product on roadmap alignment and new product innovation, including validation with key customers.
Assess alignment between customer direction and Everpure’s long-term plans and communicate where they differ.
Represent Everpure with analysts, press, and industry forums.
Build market presence through conferences, webinars, training, blogs, and social media.
Develop narratives and demonstrations for the field organization to establish Everpure as a leader in Enterprise Data & AI.
Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success to deliver aligned outcomes.
Support and mentor the broader field technical community.
Contribute to global initiatives and special projects.
Prototype, whiteboard architectures, investigate technical problems, and participate in workshops as needed.