Manager, Systems Engineering (Pre-Sales), Saudi Arabia

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

The Pure Systems Engineering Manager (SEM) is the inspirational leader a team of highly motivated technical sales resources whose goal is to support the Sales organisation for all pre-sales customer engagements and develop a great technical channel. The SEM must understand the customer's overall business and how to position the value of a Pure Solution and be an authority on Pure and industry standard technologies.

The SEM is responsible for overseeing that their team is effectively supporting the sales revenue opportunities of their sales area and developing strong pre-sales technical resources within the channel. The SEM is also responsible for driving the professional development of their Systems Engineering staff, including mentorship, training, and performance evaluation. The position requires the ability to multi-task between team members in their support of different clients, sales opportunities, and other initiatives.

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
• Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Pure Storage portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
• Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
• Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage 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
• Take control of evaluations,  benchmarks and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
• Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Author responses to RFI & RFPs
• 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
• Lead by example living the Pure Values:  Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first  

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

• Creativity, empathy, an open mind, curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
• Pre-sales experience is required
• 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
• Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP a plus
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
• Familiarity with containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
• 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
• BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
• Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work from the {{OFFICE_LOCATION}} office in compliance with Pure’s policies, unless you are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave.Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable

This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. 

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events - check out purebenefits.com for more information. 

There is no application deadline and we accept applications on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

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