Principal Product Manager, FlashArray ST

Pure Storage

Santa Clara, California

Full Time

Posted May 6, 2026

$198k - $297k

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Job Description

The Principal Product Manager for FlashArray ST leads the development and execution of the multi-year strategy for a high-performance, ultra-low-latency data storage platform, working closely with engineering and sales teams to drive product innovation, market adoption, and customer success in demanding enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Define and lead the multi-year strategy and roadmap for the FlashArray ST NVMe-oF platform.
Translate customer feedback and telemetry into requirements for hardware, software, and host integrations to improve system performance and resiliency.
Partner with customers to validate workload requirements and develop scalable sales playbooks.
Manage the product lifecycle from concept through end-of-life, balancing performance, supply chain, and operational considerations.
Establish competitive advantages by developing configuration rules and observability tools to enable field teams to win.

Requirements

Proven track record of owning the full lifecycle of performance-critical infrastructure, such as Tier-0 storage, low-latency databases, or high-performance compute platforms.
Deep technical mastery and sophisticated understanding of modern storage stacks including NVMe, NVMe-oF, RDMA, and the ability to navigate trade-offs between flash media durability, RAID erasure coding, and system throughput.
Ability to translate demanding workload requirements from environments like Oracle, SAP HANA, and Kubernetes into concrete system-level SLAs for data protection and availability.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence C-level stakeholders and senior architects, using data-driven insights, telemetry, and benchmarks to drive investment trade-offs.
Experience in defining and championing multi-year strategies for enterprise storage platforms, including owning the roadmap for NVMe-oF platforms and creating differentiation against legacy arrays and custom servers.
Experience in translating complex customer feedback and telemetry into hardware, software, and host integration requirements, ensuring feature releases improve system performance, resiliency, and operational simplicity.
Experience in partnering with key customers in financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors to validate workload requirements such as IOPS and latency SLOs, and turning early-stage POC wins into scalable global sales playbooks.
Experience leading the product lifecycle from initial concept and beta to growth and end-of-life transitions, balancing performance trade-offs with supply chain and operational excellence.
Ability to develop configuration rules and observability tools that establish competitive superiority and enable field teams to win against competitors.
Educational background or equivalent experience demonstrating expertise in enterprise systems and performance-critical infrastructure.
Willingness and ability to work primarily in an in-office environment at the Santa Clara, CA office, in compliance with company policies.