Senior Product Manager, SaaS/PaaS Remote or Hybrid
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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 on the Cloud & Platform Technologies team, you will be responsible for shaping SAS’s advanced analytics platform into an indispensable solution for enterprise customers across the globe. With your knowledge of cloud computing, you will help SAS grow its “as-a-services” businesses more quickly. You will work on a team that manages SAS’s platform strategy, shaping the future of how that platform aligns with the transformative journey that customers have embarked on to incorporate analytics into their business processes. This role also works across multiple business units within SAS to help ensure a world-class SaaS customer experience.
As a Senior Product Manager you will:
- Define and prioritize product requirements based on business drivers, customer inputs, market direction, and field contribution.
- Translate business requirements into technical, functional, and non-functional requirements
- Define user personas and write use cases.
- Collaborate with and drive product development in R&D based on requirements management, risk management, risk mitigation, and product lifecycles.
- Support product launches as primary content provider to facilitate knowledge transfer of product functionality to marketing and sales.
- Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, customers, press and analysts, etc.
- Identify new market opportunities and evaluate emerging technology and business issues that may present opportunities or threats to the company.
- Serve as a product champion by analyzing external market trends, competition, opportunities that impact the user and capabilities of the platform.
- Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, computer science, or related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in experience in product management, marketing, sales, consulting or related function in the technology industry, preferably with a software vendor.
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
- Knowledge and experience with Software-as-a-Service and/or Platform-as-a-Service business models.
- 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 environment across multiple business units
- Ability to innovate and define creative solutions with compelling user experiences that exceed customer expectations
- A self-starter with bias toward action and the know-how to balance getting details right while still moving fast
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, as the job requires
- You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
- Expertise with container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with productizing functions as a service.
- Experience with API management platforms and in “APIs as products.”
- Experience with design thinking.
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. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.
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