Senior Manager of Innovation, Advanced Services - US/EMEA

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. If you’re ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.

About Everpure: Everpure is at the forefront of reshaping the data storage industry, providing innovative solutions and a team‑driven culture.

The Role: The Senior Manager of Solution Innovation leads the identification, validation, and maturation of new service concepts aligned to Everpure’s Customer Experience Portfolio strategy. This role builds and leads a high‑performing team of Practice Solution Architects, driving outcome‑based service innovation that accelerates enterprise growth and customer transformation. The organization focuses on validating customer demand, shaping solution requirements, and proving service concepts through customer engagement, pilots, and innovation cycles. The team also provides practice‑level expertise to support strategic pre‑sales engagements and complex service delivery scenarios. You will operate at the intersection of portfolio strategy, customer engagement, sales, and delivery, ensuring new solutions are validated, refined, and positioned for operationalization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Advanced Services Solution Innovation function, translating portfolio strategy into validated service concepts and customer‑focused technical solutions.
• Manage and develop a team of Practice Solution Architects aligned to key solution domains and business priorities.
• Drive service innovation through structured ideation, validation, customer pilots, and feedback‑driven refinement.
• Align solution innovation to Everpure strategy, CX Portfolio priorities, and customer demand signals.
• Partner with Sales, Field Solution Architects, and Delivery teams to support strategic opportunities requiring deep practice expertise.
• Provide practice‑level leadership and technical authority for complex customer engagements, helping shape service requirements and solution approaches.
• Define and measure innovation success through adoption, deal influence, customer outcomes, and revenue impact.
• Collaborate with Services Engineering and Delivery organizations to transition validated concepts into operationally supported offerings.
• Foster a culture of innovation, customer engagement, domain expertise, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• Experience leading teams within professional services, solution architecture, consulting, or innovation organizations.
• Strong background in enterprise technology, transformation programs, or strategic customer engagements.
• Experience validating new solutions or services through customer engagement, pilots, and real‑world feedback.
• Ability to operate across strategy and execution, translating business priorities into customer‑focussed solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, portfolio, product, engineering, and delivery teams.
• Experience supporting complex enterprise opportunities through solution leadership and domain expertise.
• Commercial awareness, including services growth, customer adoption, and business outcomes.
• Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data, AI, and cyber resilience.
• Strong customer‑facing presence with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence direction.
• A bias toward action, innovation, and measurable outcomes.

What Success Looks Like:

• A strong pipeline of validated service concepts aligned to customer demand and enterprise priorities.
• Successful customer pilots that demonstrate measurable business value and inform future service investments.
• Increased influence on strategic opportunities through practice expertise and customer engagement.
• Strong alignment between customer demand, portfolio strategy, and service innovation priorities.
• Measurable adoption and business impact from newly introduced services.
• High‑performing Practice Solution Architects recognized as trusted advisors across sales, delivery, and customer organizations.
• Clear visibility of innovation outcomes through adoption, revenue influence, customer success, and strategic impact metrics.

Why This Role: This is a critical leadership role shaping the future of Advanced Services at Everpure. You will build and lead a new solution innovation capability, bringing service development closer to customers, sales, and delivery teams through pilots, validation, and practice expertise. You will help define how Everpure identifies, validates, and evolves new services, ensuring innovation is aligned to customer outcomes, enterprise priorities, and measurable business impact.

What You Can Expect From Us: Pure Innovation: celebrate critical thinking, challenge, and trailblazing. Pure Growth: support growth and meaningful contribution. Pure Team: build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good. Flexible time off, wellness resources, and benefits designed to support balance.

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: 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.