Program Manager, Performance Benchmarking
Pure StorageSanta Clara, California
Full Time
Posted December 8, 2025
$199k - $299k
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Job Description
The Performance Benchmarking Program Manager leads and manages the organization's storage performance benchmarking efforts, driving industry-standard benchmark submissions, collaborating with engineering and marketing teams, and translating technical results into market insights to support product development and competitive positioning.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and scale the benchmarking organization to deliver formal industry benchmarks across storage domains.
- Establish and execute global benchmark strategies and submission timelines aligned with product launches and competitive goals.
- Implement engineering best practices and standardized procedures for benchmark execution and data analysis within domain-specific teams.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to optimize performance results for public benchmarks.
- Ensure compliance, governance, and accurate external messaging by managing reviews with legal and branding teams.
- Translate technical benchmark results into market value through collaboration with marketing teams for content creation.
- Engage with external benchmark organizations and technical communities to define, drive, and participate in industry standards and activities.
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.
- Ability to establish and execute the global benchmark strategy and submission calendar (e.g., SPECstorage, IO500, MLPerf) to align with product launch timelines and competitive goals.
- Experience scaling and leading domain-specific teams (e.g., File NAS, HPC, MLMLPerf) to implement engineering best practices and standardized operating procedures for benchmark execution and data analysis.
- Ability to partner with Platform Engineering and Product leaders to secure timely tuning and optimizations that ensure top-tier public benchmark results.
- Experience owning 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.
- Proficiency in transforming technical benchmark data and insights into market value by collaborating with Technical Marketing to create external content, whitepapers, and sales enablement materials.
- Work from the Santa Clara office in compliance with company policies, unless on PTO, work travel, or other approved leave.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: $199,000 - $299,000 USD
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
In-office work environment in Santa Clara
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Support for accommodations and accessibility
Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
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