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Sales Manager jobs at Pure Storage drive enterprise and commercial deals across its all-flash storage and cloud infrastructure portfolio. The company has an established track record of sponsoring work visas for this function, making it a realistic target if you're building a U.S. sales career in the technology sector.
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We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
THE ROLE
Our mission is to help enterprises build trust through data awareness. The 1touch platform enables organizations to discover, classify, catalog, and visualize both known and unknown sensitive data across complex enterprise environments. As data privacy, governance, and cyber risk continue to evolve, we are uniquely positioned at the forefront of data security and DSPM innovation. The Consulting Systems Engineer on our data management team provides both strategic and tactical pre-sales leadership in support of the sales organization. This role is responsible for delivering technical expertise throughout the customer journey, including solution design, technical discovery, demonstrations, proof-of-concept execution, partner enablement, and technical validation. The ideal candidate combines deep data management expertise with strong business acumen and executive presence. They are comfortable navigating complex enterprise sales cycles, engaging technical and business stakeholders, and translating customer challenges into innovative solutions. This role partners cross-functionally with Product Management, R&D, Marketing, Customer Success, Leadership, Account Executives, Account Managers, specialists, and channel partners to ensure alignment between market needs, customer outcomes, and product direction.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Serve as a technical advisor and trusted partner to enterprise customers, prospects, and channel partners throughout the sales process.
- Act as a role model and mentor for other Systems Engineers while providing technical leadership in partnership with sales engineering management.
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer environments, business drivers, security challenges, compliance requirements, and decision-making processes.
- Architect and deliver compelling product demonstrations, workshops, executive briefings, and presentations tailored to customer use cases.
- Design, deploy, and manage Proof of Concept (POC) engagements, ensuring successful technical validation, measurable business value, and customer adoption.
- Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Account Managers, specialists, and channel partners to develop technical sales strategies and support complex enterprise sales cycles.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable solution recommendations, including deployment sizing, architectural guidance, and business-aligned outcomes.
- Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes, including technical validation, competitive positioning, and TCO considerations.
- Refine sales strategy and take command of technical responsibilities across strategic and complex opportunities.
- Contribute significant portions of, and/or lead, responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Deliver partner enablement and technical training to resellers, integrators, and strategic alliances.
- Represent the company at customer meetings, industry events, conferences, webinars, trade shows, and executive briefing center engagements.
- Partner with Product Management, R&D, and Marketing teams to communicate customer feedback, product enhancement requests, interoperability opportunities, and market requirements.
- Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce white papers, web presentations, blogs, social posts, and other materials that support overall go-to-market plans and objectives.
- Maintain deep awareness of market trends, competitive technologies, and evolving industry landscapes to ensure differentiated solution positioning and promote thought leadership internally and externally.
- Seek out opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation, and promote roadmap and planning exchanges across internal and external stakeholders.
- Serve as the technical solution expert in complex evaluations involving storage, infrastructure, security, and cloud-related architectures.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BRING
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another technical discipline, and/or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in pre-sales, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or related customer-facing technical roles.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise cybersecurity, storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise accounts.
- Expertise in leading technical sales motions across discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-concept execution, and technical validation.
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, design, and implementation across multi-tiered client/server, distributed, web-based, cloud, and hybrid computing solutions.
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, data protection, governance, privacy, risk management, and security operations concepts.
- Strong knowledge of current and emerging storage and infrastructure architectures, including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN, virtualization, and distributed environments.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware.
- Knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, distributed network environments, and general systems architecture.
- Strong networking and infrastructure knowledge, including Ethernet, TCP/IP, and local area networking.
- Familiarity with modern web and cloud-native architectures, including LAMP stack, scale-out vs. scale-up, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with scripting and automation technologies, including Python.
- Ability to understand and communicate complex technical architectures to both technical and executive audiences.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with data discovery, classification, DSPM, DLP, SIEM, SOAR, governance, privacy, and compliance solutions.
- Familiarity with enterprise cybersecurity and data protection platforms such as BigID, Varonis, IXIA, Gigamon, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Symantec DLP, Forcepoint DLP, and Trend Micro.
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL, structured databases, cloud-native databases, and storage-intensive applications.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Experience with REST APIs, Apache Kafka, Docker, and containerized environments.
- Prior experience working within high-growth cybersecurity, SaaS, or enterprise technology organizations.
- Experience creating thought leadership content, including blogs, webinars, presentations, white papers, and social media content.
- Prior experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
- Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge, and aspire to be trailblazers.
- Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been named Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology™, Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
- Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good. 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.
ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY
Candidates with disabilities may request accommodations for all aspects of our hiring process. For more on this, contact us at TA-Ops@purestorage.com if you’re invited to an interview.
OUR COMMITMENT TO A STRONG AND INCLUSIVE TEAM
We’re forging a future where everyone finds their rightful place and where every voice matters. Where uniqueness isn’t just accepted but embraced. That’s why we are committed to fostering the growth and development of every person, cultivating a sense of community through our Employee Resource Groups and advocating for inclusive leadership. Everpure is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire.
JOIN US AND BRING YOUR BEST.
BRING YOUR BOLD.
PURE AND SIMPLE.
INTRODUCTION
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.
THE ROLE
Our mission is to help enterprises build trust through data awareness. The 1touch platform enables organizations to discover, classify, catalog, and visualize both known and unknown sensitive data across complex enterprise environments. As data privacy, governance, and cyber risk continue to evolve, we are uniquely positioned at the forefront of data security and DSPM innovation. The Consulting Systems Engineer on our data management team provides both strategic and tactical pre-sales leadership in support of the sales organization. This role is responsible for delivering technical expertise throughout the customer journey, including solution design, technical discovery, demonstrations, proof-of-concept execution, partner enablement, and technical validation. The ideal candidate combines deep data management expertise with strong business acumen and executive presence. They are comfortable navigating complex enterprise sales cycles, engaging technical and business stakeholders, and translating customer challenges into innovative solutions. This role partners cross-functionally with Product Management, R&D, Marketing, Customer Success, Leadership, Account Executives, Account Managers, specialists, and channel partners to ensure alignment between market needs, customer outcomes, and product direction.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Serve as a technical advisor and trusted partner to enterprise customers, prospects, and channel partners throughout the sales process.
- Act as a role model and mentor for other Systems Engineers while providing technical leadership in partnership with sales engineering management.
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer environments, business drivers, security challenges, compliance requirements, and decision-making processes.
- Architect and deliver compelling product demonstrations, workshops, executive briefings, and presentations tailored to customer use cases.
- Design, deploy, and manage Proof of Concept (POC) engagements, ensuring successful technical validation, measurable business value, and customer adoption.
- Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Account Managers, specialists, and channel partners to develop technical sales strategies and support complex enterprise sales cycles.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable solution recommendations, including deployment sizing, architectural guidance, and business-aligned outcomes.
- Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes, including technical validation, competitive positioning, and TCO considerations.
- Refine sales strategy and take command of technical responsibilities across strategic and complex opportunities.
- Contribute significant portions of, and/or lead, responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Deliver partner enablement and technical training to resellers, integrators, and strategic alliances.
- Represent the company at customer meetings, industry events, conferences, webinars, trade shows, and executive briefing center engagements.
- Partner with Product Management, R&D, and Marketing teams to communicate customer feedback, product enhancement requests, interoperability opportunities, and market requirements.
- Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce white papers, web presentations, blogs, social posts, and other materials that support overall go-to-market plans and objectives.
- Maintain deep awareness of market trends, competitive technologies, and evolving industry landscapes to ensure differentiated solution positioning and promote thought leadership internally and externally.
- Seek out opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation, and promote roadmap and planning exchanges across internal and external stakeholders.
- Serve as the technical solution expert in complex evaluations involving storage, infrastructure, security, and cloud-related architectures.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO BRING
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another technical discipline, and/or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in pre-sales, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or related customer-facing technical roles.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise cybersecurity, storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise accounts.
- Expertise in leading technical sales motions across discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-concept execution, and technical validation.
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, design, and implementation across multi-tiered client/server, distributed, web-based, cloud, and hybrid computing solutions.
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, data protection, governance, privacy, risk management, and security operations concepts.
- Strong knowledge of current and emerging storage and infrastructure architectures, including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN, virtualization, and distributed environments.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware.
- Knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, distributed network environments, and general systems architecture.
- Strong networking and infrastructure knowledge, including Ethernet, TCP/IP, and local area networking.
- Familiarity with modern web and cloud-native architectures, including LAMP stack, scale-out vs. scale-up, microservices, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with scripting and automation technologies, including Python.
- Ability to understand and communicate complex technical architectures to both technical and executive audiences.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with data discovery, classification, DSPM, DLP, SIEM, SOAR, governance, privacy, and compliance solutions.
- Familiarity with enterprise cybersecurity and data protection platforms such as BigID, Varonis, IXIA, Gigamon, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Symantec DLP, Forcepoint DLP, and Trend Micro.
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL, structured databases, cloud-native databases, and storage-intensive applications.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Experience with REST APIs, Apache Kafka, Docker, and containerized environments.
- Prior experience working within high-growth cybersecurity, SaaS, or enterprise technology organizations.
- Experience creating thought leadership content, including blogs, webinars, presentations, white papers, and social media content.
- Prior experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
- Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge, and aspire to be trailblazers.
- Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been named Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology™, Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
- Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good. 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.
ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY
Candidates with disabilities may request accommodations for all aspects of our hiring process. For more on this, contact us at TA-Ops@purestorage.com if you’re invited to an interview.
OUR COMMITMENT TO A STRONG AND INCLUSIVE TEAM
We’re forging a future where everyone finds their rightful place and where every voice matters. Where uniqueness isn’t just accepted but embraced. That’s why we are committed to fostering the growth and development of every person, cultivating a sense of community through our Employee Resource Groups and advocating for inclusive leadership. Everpure is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire.
JOIN US AND BRING YOUR BEST.
BRING YOUR BOLD.
PURE AND SIMPLE.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Sales Manager Jobs at Pure Storage
Align your credentials to enterprise sales
Pure Storage Sales Manager roles emphasize quota-carrying experience in enterprise technology, ideally storage, cloud, or infrastructure. Before applying, document specific deal sizes, territory ownership, and revenue outcomes, these details directly support the specialty occupation case in your H-1B petition.
Target roles with defined territory structures
Pure Storage organizes its sales org by geography and vertical, including commercial, enterprise, and federal segments. Applying to a role with a clearly defined territory signals a structured headcount need, which tends to move faster through internal approval and USCIS filing than newly created positions.
Confirm OPT or CPT eligibility before your interview
If you're on F-1 status, verify that your degree field supports CPT or OPT authorization for a sales management role at a tech company. A business, marketing, or information systems degree gives you the strongest case when your employer later pursues H-1B sponsorship.
Ask about sponsorship scope during offer negotiation
Not every Sales Manager offer at Pure Storage automatically includes long-term Green Card sponsorship. During offer discussions, ask directly whether the role is eligible for PERM-based EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship, so you understand the full immigration runway before signing.
Use Migrate Mate to find open Sales Manager roles
Filtering for visa-sponsoring technology employers in sales is time-consuming without the right tool. Use Migrate Mate to surface Pure Storage Sales Manager openings filtered by sponsorship type, so you're applying to roles where sponsorship is already confirmed rather than guessing from a generic job board.
Time your application around H-1B cap deadlines
The H-1B cap registration window opens in March each year, with an October 1 start date for approved petitions. If you're targeting a Sales Manager role at Pure Storage, aim to have an offer finalized by February so your employer can register you without missing the USCIS filing window.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Pure Storage sponsor H-1B visas for Sales Managers?
Yes, Pure Storage sponsors H-1B visas for Sales Manager roles. The company has a consistent pattern of supporting visa sponsorship across its go-to-market functions, including sales. If you're in the H-1B lottery process or transitioning from OPT, Pure Storage is a realistic employer to target, provided your experience aligns with their enterprise or commercial sales requirements.
How do I apply for Sales Manager jobs at Pure Storage?
Applications go through Pure Storage's careers site, where roles are listed by segment and region. You can also find Sales Manager openings at Pure Storage through Migrate Mate, which filters specifically for visa-sponsoring employers so you can confirm sponsorship eligibility before investing time in the application process. Tailor your resume to reflect quota ownership, deal complexity, and technology sector experience.
Which visa types does Pure Storage commonly use for Sales Manager roles?
Pure Storage sponsors several visa categories for Sales Managers, including H-1B, TN visa for Canadian and Mexican nationals, F-1 OPT and CPT for recent graduates, and J-1 visa for exchange visitors. For longer-term permanent residence, the company has supported EB-2 and EB-3 pathways through PERM labor certification, which is typically available after you've established tenure in the role.
What qualifications does Pure Storage expect for a sponsored Sales Manager role?
Pure Storage generally looks for Sales Managers with a bachelor's degree in business, technology, or a related field, combined with a track record of closing enterprise deals in the technology sector. Experience selling storage, cloud infrastructure, or SaaS solutions is a strong differentiator. The specialty occupation standard for H-1B purposes is reinforced when your degree field directly maps to the technical sales function.
How do I handle timing if my OPT expires before my H-1B is approved?
If you have a timely filed H-1B petition before your OPT expires, USCIS grants a cap-gap extension that covers your authorized stay and, if applicable, your work authorization through September 30. Pure Storage's HR and immigration team should be looped in early so the I-129 petition is filed before your OPT end date, avoiding any gap in employment authorization.