Manager, Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineering - Northeast

Pure Storage•Newark, NY

10h•Remote

About The Position

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is looking for a dynamic Systems Engineering Manager to lead and inspire a high-performing team in our Commercial organization. In this pivotal role, you’ll guide talented pre-sales Systems Engineers who help some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies modernize their data strategies with industry-leading all-flash storage, cloud, and AI-driven data solutions. If you’re passionate about coaching technical talent, elevating customer outcomes, and shaping the future of data-driven enterprises, this is your opportunity to make a visible impact at one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry. Candidates must reside within the NYC Metro area.

Requirements

5+ years of Management experience leading high performing Sales Engineers selling in Commercial/Enterprise Accounts
10+ years experience supporting the sales of storage, networking or systems solutions to a combination of large accounts and data centers
Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
Prior experience in setting team strategy to acquire new prospects and converting them into clients
Knowledge of business impact of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
Knowledge of VMWare, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

Demonstrate effective people development in a rapidly evolving technical space
Act as an employee advocate who is focused on team and people development, demonstrating high EQ
Have a desire to drive operational excellence; create a team support creation and validation of technical demand
Lead by example, living the Everpure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, Customer-first
Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Everpure solution
Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities
Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
Enable team to: Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
Author responses to RFI & RFPs when needed
Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization