We are looking for passionate, inspirational, hands-on System Engineer for Pure’s fast-growing AI and HPC Systems Engineering team. This group is composed of highly motivated technical sales resources whose goal is to develop and lead Pure’s AI and HPC business, including providing guidance, enablement, and support of sales opportunities and partnerships across their assigned region. This person must be able to discover our client’s and partners’ overall business objectives and articulate how Pure’s value proposition and technical capabilities align with their goals. In addition, this unique role requires an individual that is an expert in AI and HPC technologies, processes, and market leaders.
This person is responsible for enhancing Pure’s account teams and partners, and other relevant internal resources’ knowledge in the area of AI and HPC. In addition, this individual will ensure account teams are effectively qualifying and positioning AI and HPC opportunities across their assigned territory. This position requires the ability to work cross-functionally with a multitude of departments to align initiatives and go-to-market campaigns, in addition to multitasking across different clients and sales opportunities.

• Partner closely with Asia Pacific, Japan Account Managers , specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
• Creating customer facing content (Technical Walkthroughs, Deep Dives, Qualification Guides, etc.) for AI and HPC opportunities
• Advise leadership on appropriate methodologies and strategies to increase overall AI and HPC knowledge and enhance Pure’s position in the market
• Lead/ Participate in customer facing calls, demos, POCs, EBCs, internal strategy/sizing sessions, and other related solution-focused activities
• Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Pure Storage portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
• 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
• Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
• Be seen as the solution expert in complex POC and TCO calculations
• Daily Slack availability and enablement, leading to customer/opportunity influence
• Post-sales assistance with expert level knowledge around solutions
• Partner with Sales & SE Leaders for two-way feedback and communication
• High degree of cross-functional engagement with other GTM and corporate functions
• Communicate, connect, and align people within the direct team and develop internal relationships across Pure Storage