Senior Product Manager for Data Acceleration – Hybrid in Cary, North Carolina

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We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job 

As a Senior Product Manager for Data Acceleration, in collaboration with the wider product strategy team, you will be responsible for driving product strategy across the SAS platform in the areas of high-performance data processing and model execution. In this high-impact role, you will define and evolve the product direction for a portfolio of technologies that accelerate data access, transformation, and analytics execution across hybrid and cloud-native environments.

This includes ownership of SAS SpeedyStore and SAS In-Database Technologies, which enable high-speed model scoring, code acceleration, SAS Visual Analytics (VA) acceleration, and model training. You will also lead the strategy for integrating with open file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg, and enabling remote access to cloud storage platforms like AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.

You will work closely with software engineering teams to develop a platform product vision for this domain and craft detailed requirements to support the development of a robust and scalable product roadmap.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will:  

• Develop the vision and roadmap for this product area.
• Define and prioritize product requirements based on business drivers, customer inputs, market needs, and field contributions.
• Define user personas and write use cases.
• Drive product development and collaborate with software development teams based on prioritized requirements and product lifecycle strategy.
• Support product launches by imparting product knowledge to marketing and sales teams.
• Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, senior management stakeholders, customers, press, analysts, influencers, and others.
• Identify new markets, evaluate emerging technologies, and explore business issues that may present opportunities or threats to the company.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management and/or software engineering related to data management, decision management, or AI/analytics.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in data science, computer science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Solid working knowledge of modern data management, cloud databases (SingleStore, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse), and Spark based environments like Databricks.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and experience in working with software development teams to deliver outstanding results.
• Familiarity with one or more open-source runtimes, packages, and libraries (like Python).
• Understand concepts of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and/or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business models. 
• Familiarity with Cloud Platform provider technologies.
• Ability to translate complex technical and business information for diverse audiences.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage in technical discussions with customers, partners, and industry analysts. 
• Excellent critical thinking skills with demonstrated history of making good decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative, global environment across multiple business units.
• Ability to innovate and define creative solutions with compelling user experiences that exceed customer expectations.

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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