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Rajiv Thakkar

Captain · DISC type DS
Director, Product Marketing, AI Solutions at Pure Storage
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Rajiv is the AI Solution Marketing Leader at Pure Storage, driving GTM strategy for the companys AI solutions. An expert in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and data platforms, he previously led marketing for Portworx and VMwares Tanzu services. People who have worked with him describe him as thoughtful, innovative, energetic, and enthusiastic.

He earned a Master of Science from Texas A&M University and has an Executive Education from Northwesterns Kellogg School of Management.

Unique fact: In his first year at VMware, he led the product marketing efforts for the biggest release of vSphere.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Director, Product Marketing, AI Solutions
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Rajiv shows up

Decisive But Calm
Planner & Achiever
Output-Driven

They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time. They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together. Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them.

Priorities

Topics Rajiv cares about

Enterprise AI Infrastructure
His current role is leading AI Solution Marketing at Pure Storage, focusing on the data infrastructure required to scale enterprise AI initiatives from experimentation to execution.
Container Data Platforms
As the former head of product marketing for Portworx, he is an expert on running stateful applications on Kubernetes and is a frequent speaker on the topic.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Director, Product Marketing, AI Solutions
Pure Storage
10-2021 - 6-2025
Director of Product & Solution Marketing, Cloud Native Business Unit
Pure Storage
3-2019 - 9-2021
Group Manager, Product Marketing, Cloud Services
VMware
Senior Product Manager, Software Defined Datacenter & Cloud Group
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sales Manager, Siemens Building Technologies
Siemens
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2020 - 2021
Executive Education
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Master of Science (MS)
Texas A&M University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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