Principal Product Manager, Systems FlashBlade

Pure Storage•Santa Clara, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

As Principal Product Manager for FlashBlade Systems, you will establish the multi-year architectural strategy, hardware roadmap, and market expansion vision for Everpure's flagship scale-out platform. Recognized as an industry expert, you will evaluate complex market variables to define next-generation technologies that drive long-term business success for high-performance and AI workloads. You will partner directly with C-suite executives, Engineering, Supply Chain, and global customer leadership to convert visionary concepts into market-defining hardware solutions.

Requirements

Expertise in driving enterprise infrastructure product strategy, establishing long-term product roadmaps, and leading complex, company-wide architectural initiatives.
Proven capability managing large-scale hardware platform portfolios across all phases of the product life cycle while balancing unit economics, supply chains, and market delivery.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a track record of negotiating critical strategic decisions and building alignment among C-level leaders and external executives.
Technical mastery of scale-out storage systems, high-performance computing architectures, data center hardware co-design, and modern cloud deployment models.

Responsibilities

Formulate and champion the overarching hardware vision for the FlashBlade portfolio, aligning future platform architecture with high-growth market demands in AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Oversee end-to-end hardware portfolio decisions—from conceptual design through commercial growth and strategic end-of-life transitions—to maximize revenue impact and platform margins.
Serve as the authoritative voice for FlashBlade hardware strategy across executive advisory boards, steering committee reviews, and strategic customer engagements.
Analyze market dynamics, supply chain constraints, and platform margin signals to make critical performance, cost, and reliability trade-offs.
Partner with Subsystems and Platform Engineering teams to integrate emerging fabrics, networking, and media components that reinforce FlashBlade’s market-leading performance.