Senior Engineering Program Manager - FlashBlade

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Senior Engineering Program Manager - FlashBlade

at Pure Storage

Mountain View, CA

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SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

The FlashBlade team builds the industry’s most innovative, easiest to use, high-performance, and highly available portfolio of products that are designed for the most demanding mission critical applications. While we deliver a hardware storage array, over 90% of our engineering staff are software engineers. Our customers are the most important part of our business and they love FlashBlade for it's simplicity of management, the constant flow of new and exciting upgrades, and ability to live on the cutting edge of technology while never taking downtime, ever. Most recently, we extended the value of our FlashBlade capabilities into the cloud for AWS and Azure. These new innovations enable our customers to leverage the agility of the public cloud for both traditional IT and cloud-native applications.

Responsibilities include

Own and drive Engineering features/programs end to end for FlashBlade.

This includes from concept to delivery to customers

Work with the technical team on the product definition and schedule, manage the Foundation roadmap. Foresee and resolve future potential schedule challenges.

Drive content, schedule and overall delivery of the program and set it up for success in the field/customer base.

Enable the team headcount scoping, feature load and definition

Ensure proper work staffing, schedule correctness and predictability

Improve the work delivery by working with top management on separating the “must haves” from the “nice to haves”.

Manage the overall Foundation budget, handling all HW needs / requirements and budget

Take ownership of the product quality, and metrics.

Optimize team processes to improve quality, productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities and set up the program for success in the field

Ensure clarity and communications across business units

Quantify known risks and drive mitigation plans. Enhance the team awareness of the unknown risks.

Own and Drive “As a Service” development and delivery methods

Responsible for ensuring that FlashBlade complies with all SLAs to the customer

Responsible for anything additional required by the business - including working with vendors, partners and outside authorities to accomplish this.

Responsible for communications with Forensics in / during customer escalations

Overcome obstacles by resolving issues, regardless of team boundaries, and identify and resolve teamwork issues

Solid project and technical judgment; ability to influence a growing organization

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

7 years of experience as a Technical Program Manager; MS in computer science, MBA or engineering management equivalent preferred

Experience with complex, features rich programs and schedule management

Set goals for the program, track and periodically communicate to stakeholders as well as ensure corrective actions/mitigations as needed

Lead or participate in vendor / partner discussions to optimize the SW roadmap

Critical problem solving and work with various stakeholders on the foundation related areas, tracking and management

Demonstrated change agent with capabilities to identify and deliver on process changes that would enable faster time to market while driving organization consistency and efficiency.

Proven expertise in managing projects throughout the entire SDLC,including investigation, design, execution and delivering products to market on schedule, and addressing customer feedback in development.

Be the single point person for delivery decisions, exec and cross team communication and working with various functional groups to deliver the program

Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical, cross-functional groups.

Security certifications are a plus

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Through our Pure Equality program, which supports a flourishing field of employee resource groups, we nourish the personal and professional lives of our team members. And our Pure Good Foundation gives back to local and global communities through volunteering and grants.

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.

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TA-Ops@purestorage.com

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Pure Storage
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