Program Manager – Certifications & Accreditations

Program Manager – Certifications & Accreditations

Requirements

• Proven ability to design, develop, and manage technical certification and accreditation programs that align with organizational goals and enablement strategies.
• Familiarity with exam blueprinting, question development, and validation processes, working with SMEs and assessment vendors to maintain high-quality certifications.
• Work effectively with multiple assessment services and product vendors, SMEs, curriculum developers, and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth certification development and delivery.
• Able to explain certification processes, requirements, and value to technical audiences, leadership, and cross-functional teams.
• Project management contributions that consistently enabled sales excellence (development & oversight of valuable product and solution content that enabled adequate preparation for presales certifications).
• Demonstrated success with technical development programs.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Successful stakeholder management while working on multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Experience working with psychometric tools.
• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience with accreditation(s).

Responsibilities

• Together with the Manager, Global GSO Competencies, develop and maintain certification roadmaps and processes by collaborating with stakeholders across Technical Enablement, Product Management, Marketing, and Sales to ensure alignment with Pure’s presales technical strategy and overall enablement objectives.
• Together with the Manager, Global GSO Competencies, use data-driven insights from the Global Enablement domain analysis project outputs to enhance certification development, providing evidence-based recommendations for exam updates and blueprint revisions to ensure alignment.
• Support and measure the impact of Pure’s presales technical certifications and accreditations for SEs and partners, ensuring these programs drive measurable skill development and readiness while aligning with the GSO’s enablement goals.
• Enhance the candidate experience by managing certification communications, troubleshooting candidate issues, and refining exam administration processes to maximize efficiency, accessibility, clarity, and overall program efficacy.
• Drive collaboration across teams by working closely with internal teams, external vendors and internal and external SMEs to maintain high-quality, psychometrically sound, and job-relevant certifications and accreditations.
• Champion cross-functional alignment by engaging with Sales, Partner teams, and sales leaders across the globe to increase certification adoption, awareness, and participation, ensuring a strong connection between technical validation and business impact.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.