Senior Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives - Start-ups & Ecosystem at Pure Storage in Bangalore, India

Job description

• Everpure is seeking an experienced program manager to lead a high-visibility strategic initiative spanning across the tech ecosystem.
• Reporting to the Head of Business Operations, India, you will establish and run these programs to deliver local value and global visibility.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize the initiative by collaborating across VCs and startup incubators
• Imagine and develop offerings to accelerate growth and adoption and innovate avenues for co-development
• Collaborate with Everpure’s Corporate VC team to identify partnership, investment, or acquisition opportunities.
• Lead founder relations, launch events, community programming, and all PR/comms related to these initiatives.
• Operationalize a platform for global customer connects with Everpure’s product organization
• Own the engagement, including in-person forums, virtual progress check-ins, platform-topic sessions, roundtables, and targeted use-case deep dives.
• Drive for high quality results by coordinating structured pre-work with account teams and internal stakeholders to tailor agendas to customer priorities and business context.
• Manage membership commitments, renewal reviews, program-health reporting, privacy and transcription consent, and other operating controls.

Requirements

• You are a highly self motivated individual with exceptional achievements in any field.
• Possess outstanding communication and leadership skills, preferably with experience in building such programs from scratch
• 10+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, corporate development, customer programs, or a related field. Strong preference for candidates with experience launching or operating an accelerator, startup engagement program, or innovation hub.
• Deep understanding of startups, VC ecosystems, cloud or data platforms, enterprise technology, innovation programs, preferably in an Indian context.
• Strong program-management discipline: ability to create operating models, governance mechanisms, metrics, budgets, executive communications, and repeatable playbooks.
• Excellent facilitation and relationship-building skills that cut across founders, investors, accelerators, product and engineering teams, sales, customer success, and senior executives

Skills

Required

• Program management
• Strategic partnerships
• Corporate development
• Customer programs
• Communication
• Leadership
• Facilitation
• Relationship-building

Benefits

• 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 http://benefits.everpuredata.com/ for more information.