Product Manager- SAS Languages

• Shape the strategic direction for the data management capabilities of SAS’s flagship language to ensure they exceed customer needs, while aligning product plans with corporate strategy and business objectives.
• Define and maintain product roadmaps, priorities, and OKRs; communicate product risks, decisions, and roadmap updates to stakeholders.
• Lead product requirements definition and prioritization based on customer, stakeholder, prospect, and market input, and conduct discovery to translate findings into product strategy.
• Drive alignment across Engineering, Design, UX, Program Management, and related teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.
• Define success measures, conduct post-launch analysis, and develop business cases and product investment recommendations based on customer, market, financial, and product health data.
• Help shape pricing, positioning, collateral, launch readiness, support readiness, and knowledge transfer, and represent the product externally to customers and prospects.
• Own product lifecycle management decisions and identify emerging technologies, business threats, and new market opportunities.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications

• 5+ 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.
• An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Solid working knowledge of modern data management, SQL and query processing, modern file and table formats (Parquet and Iceberg), authentication (EntraID, OAuth/OIDC and Kerberos), and cloud object storage (S3, ADLS, GCS).
• Familiarity with one or more open-source runtimes, packages, and libraries (like Python or R).
• 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.

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• 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 a demonstrated history of making sound 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

• 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.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• 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.

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