Program Manager, Performance Benchmarking

Pure Storage•Santa Clara, CA

13d•Onsite

About The Position

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. THE ROLE Join us as a Performance Benchmarking Program Manager to lead and scale our multi-disciplinary benchmarking organization, driving competitive advantage and the delivery of formal benchmarks across enterprise storage (File/NAS, HPC, AI/ML, Block). You will be the strategic owner for industry benchmarks like SPEC, IO500, and MLCommons, acting as the key liaison between engineering, product, and our global marketing organization. Success is defined by delivering on-time, defensible, standards-compliant, and market-ready results that translate into explainable engineering insights and compelling marketing claims.

Requirements

Extensive experience in storage performance benchmarking with a demonstrated track record of successfully driving public, compliant submissions (e.g., SPEC, IO500, MLPerf, SPC).
Proven Program/Product Management leadership focused on instituting rigorous performance benchmark standards, operating procedures, and engineering discipline in a fast-paced environment.
Direct experience interfacing with external benchmark organizations and technical communities (e.g., SPEC, IO500, MLCommons) to define, drive, and programmatically participate in council activities.
Exceptional communication and storytelling ability with a proven capability to deliver engaging technical presentations and articulate complex performance insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical and data-driven skills including proficiency in using data analysis and visualization tools to diagnose results, explain performance deltas, and steer product direction.

Responsibilities

Establish and execute the global benchmark strategy and submission calendar (e.g., SPECstorage, IO500, MLPerf) to align precisely with product launch timelines and competitive goals.
Scale and lead domain-specific pods (e.g., File/NAS, HPC, ML/MLPerf) to implement engineering best practices and a standardized operating procedure for benchmark execution and data analysis.
Drive key organizational and business impact by partnering with Platform Engineering and Product leaders to secure timely tuning and optimizations that ensure top-tier public benchmark results .
Own compliance, governance, and public messaging by chairing go/no-go reviews with Legal and Brand teams on all external performance claims, ensuring traceable evidence and correct trademark usage.
Convert technical results into market value by collaborating closely with Technical Marketing to transform benchmark data and insights into compelling external content, whitepapers, and sales enablement materials.
We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work from the Santa Clara office in compliance with Pure’s policies, unless you are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave.