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SAS believes in the whole employee experience. Meaningful work. Empowerment to make a difference that changes people’s lives. Dynamic work environments that foster innovation. And an award-winning culture that makes it all possible. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. Whether you're a university recruit, or an experienced professional ready for the next big challenge, SAS brings perks, passion, and the potential to grow. No limits.
The SAS IoT Division believes that our people are our greatest asset and that only through our collective passion, collaboration, and hard work can we truly make a difference for our customers. We believe in a dynamic, innovative environment that requires a diversity of thought, and that great ideas can come from anywhere.
The IoT Technical Manager is a working manager role responsible for leading and developing a high-performance team. The team’s primary purpose is to facilitate the collective success of our internal and external customers and partners through pre-sales, enablement and mentoring activities. As a charter member in this newly formed division, you’ll be asked to be resourceful, flexible, and innovative with the primary responsibility of developing, leading, and managing your team.
Primary responsibilities will include:
- Provides leadership on team IoT initiatives and projects; coordinates with other business units and geographies to disseminate and share best practices
- Builds a trusted relationship with Sales and Channel Partners to provide practical guidance in the business value of proposed IoT solutions.
- Works with the team to define and develop IoT service offerings and enablement strategy for a broad set of professional services teams and partners.
- Fosters a spirit of teamwork and unity that allows for free discussion and exploration of diverse ideas; builds and environment of trust, transparency, and cohesiveness.
- Provides effective performance feedback through frequent interactions, mentoring, and coaching sessions; provides oversight and direction where required.
- Plan and allocate resources to effectively staff customer facing engagements.
- Communicate regularly with other department managers and directors to help ensure the attainment of business unit objective.
- Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; creates an environment that values high performance and customer orientation; develops employee personal growth opportunities.
- Manage the overall operational and financial responsibilities of the team.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 8 years’ experience in consulting, pre-sales, or another technical customer-facing role.
- Travel as business needs dictate
Preferred:
- Strong track record of leading high-performing technical teams
- Knowledge of IoT or Event Stream Processing
- Superior facilitation, problem solving, organizational, decision-making, written, oral and interpersonal skills
- Outstanding relationship building and employee coaching and development skills.
- High sales and customer orientation and pronounced consultancy competence
- Ability to communicate with people of various technical and business backgrounds, including the ability to explain difficult technical concepts in simple terms to business users.
- Ability to execute against a general set of objectives creatively and in a self-directed manner.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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The Engagement Manager provides strategic support to SAS Sales in achieving revenue targets and to Solution implementation by providing industry/business domain, change management consulting, and public policy expertise; developing an industry/business domain viewpoint on SAS Offerings and their alignment to public policy goals, along with appropriate representation of that vision to clients. The Industry Consultant must articulate SAS capabilities, but most importantly must translate how SAS will uniquely position clients for a variety of functional and operational benefits including accomplishment of desired policy outcomes and program effectiveness.
The successful candidate would be one who has the expert skills and high level experience in operationalizing analytics or information technology, can communicate well and the ability to help clients in solving complex big data analytics problems. Someone who is easy to work with and has a passion for helping clients solve complex problems, providing strategic guidance, advisement and directives to internal and external stakeholders, in addition to executing on certain functions directly, recognizing the importance of serving as an industry/domain expert in a support role.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Participate in recurring validation of project progress and requirements
- Build customer references and support strategic opportunity growth through project expansion and identification of new sales opportunities.
- Builds credibility and trusted advisor relationship with customers including policymakers, decision-makers, operational management, and end users.
- Provide business process improvement observations and change management consultation to facilitate organization adoption and engagement with analytic solutions.
- Provide regular and recurring on-site engagement to all levels of the customer base as needed.
- Assist delivery team and customer in tactical and strategic issue resolution, seeking to resolve issues at the team level while escalating critical issues in a timely manner to ensure collaboration of resources to resolve issues.
- Facilitate the delivery of solution value to the customer, facilitating customer preparedness, training, deployment and value/ROI measurement.
- Provides guidance and insight to internal and external stakeholders to develop quality analytics to help drive improved outcomes.
- Prepares and delivers presentations to customers at the highest levels of management and decision-making.
- Facilitates key customer workshops to educate and inform customer of SAS capabilities.
- Participates with senior management to identify and establish objectives, assignments, and goals in accordance with SAS strategic plans; assists in targeting specific customers and business partners to promote industry sales and marketing initiatives.
- Identifies competitor advances in the market.
- Identifies sales support resources required to deliver appropriate SAS solution design.
- Some travel required.
- Performs other duties, as assigned.
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or related discipline
- Requires 8 (or more) years of experience working in the State or Local Government industry with hands-on advanced analytics experience, experience facilitating large government programs with multi-agency coordination or supporting sales efforts for complex integrated systems
- Experience presenting to government leaders and elected officials
- Experience with policy at the federal, state or local level
- Work location: Tallahassee, FL
Additional Requirements:
- Good project management and facilitation skills
- Demonstrated industry relationships and credibility.
- Demonstrated ability to present to all levels of an organization.
- Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills.
- Ability to work independently, or as part of a team.
- Ability to understand and translate complex technical and business information to internal/external audiences.
- Deep knowledge of current issues and trends with data integration and advanced analytics applications within state and local government agencies
- Ability to relate current industry issues and trends to SAS offerings
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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Provides post-sale strategic and technical guidance to SAS customers across industries. Collaborates with account team to assess customer needs, identify opportunities, present software demonstrations, and lead technical workshops with customers.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery sessions with SAS colleagues and SAS customers
- Deliver standard and customized software demonstrations and presentations as they apply to client needs
- Deliver adoption workshops to customers on SAS usage and administration
- Qualify readiness of customers for adoption workshops
- Develop new adoption workshops as needs arise
- Assist account team to develop customer success plans and adoption plans
- Identify opportunities for expansion that will lead customers to increased value in their SAS software investment
- Develop client trust and gain deeper insight to client needs, with the intent of developing mutually beneficial long-term SAS/client relationships
- Participate in internal best practices and lessons learned sessions to improve team processes
- Participate in training to acquire and maintain detailed level of SAS knowledge
- Work with the product management and product development teams to channel client feedback into future releases
- Performs other duties, as assigned
Essential
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
- Five years of experience in technical sales, training, technical support, professional services, information systems, or related area of expertise
- Demonstrated knowledge of SAS
- Knowledge of basic server architecture and SAS n-tier architecture
- Public speaking experience, presentation experience, remote presentation experience (e.g., WebEx proficiency)
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to relate technical concepts to varied audiences including users, IT and management
- Strong knowledge of SAS 9 architecture and administration, including:
- Administration processes (backup and recovery, troubleshooting, etc.)
- Grid administration
- VA administration
- SAS Environment Manager
- SAS Management Console
Preferences
- Knowledge of SAS Viya architecture and administration
- Knowledge of SAS Base and macro programming
- Knowledge of SAS Viya programming
- Knowledge of Hadoop / SAS Access to Hadoop
- Ability to travel as business needs dictate (approximately 25%)
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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As an Account Executive at SAS, you will be responsible for the sale of SAS software products, solutions and services to current and prospective retail clients primarily in Cary and Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA. This is a highly strategic position where your responsibilities will include working with and leading other sales, services, and support personnel to position SAS solutions with clients in the retail and grocery sector.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Sells software, solutions and services to current and prospective customers.
- Implements strategies for territory and account planning, management and development to identify accounts with high "close" potential.
- Works with other sales personnel to position SAS solutions to acquire, grow and retain customers within the assigned territory.
- Prospects within each client in the territory to uncover the client’s business needs that SAS can satisfy and fulfills a wide range of requests for information from prospective customers.
- Qualifies each opportunity to determine SAS’ goodness of fit, the client’s readiness to purchase, and the probability of successfully closing each opportunity.
- Develops an in depth understanding of company pricing and licensing procedures.
- Prepares standard quotations and proposals; works with other departments to create and finalize contracts and set time schedules for the provision of professional services and training.
- Follows up with customers to track satisfaction levels and to discover additional revenue opportunities.
- Performs other duties, as assigned.
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree; preferably in Business, Marketing, MIS, or other relevant discipline.
- Requires a minimum of five years of experience in direct sales, marketing, or technical sales support of computer software solutions (including related training products and services), computer hardware, or telecommunications software/hardware.
- Ability to travel as much as 70% or as business needs require.
- Primary Work locations: Cary and Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA.
Additional Requirements:
- Experience in and knowledge of complex technology solution sales; knowledge of software and/or hardware acquisition cycles and buying influences.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate territory dynamics and develop a sales plan at both the territory and individual client level.
- General understanding of business, analytical, and technical concepts with the ability to communicate and relate SAS’ capabilities to client needs.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Preferences:
- Significant experience selling software solutions into the retail and grocery industries are preferred.
- SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also for a cultural fit. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique culture that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, culture fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
Equivalency:
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered in place of the requirements above.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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We are seeking a Mid-Market Account Executive responsible for sales of SAS software products, solutions and services in a high volume, multi-tasking environment to prospective and current acounties in the retail, consumer packaged goods, media, and services industries.
Primary Responsibilities
- Sells software, solutions and services to current and prospective customers; works with other sales/pre-sales/domain/personnel to position and leverage sales opportunities to acquire, grow and retain customers within assigned territory.
- Fulfills wide range of requests for information from prospective customers. Qualifies level of opportunity and resources required.
- Prospects within a territory or account to uncover business needs.
- Implements aspects of territory and account management and development; identifies accounts with high "close" potential, qualifies, advances opportunity through milestone steps of sales cycle and forecast time frames to close business within Orion.
- Works closely with pre-sales resources and executives to facilitate timely response to highly qualified, high revenue potential opportunities.
- Prepares standard quotations and proposal information as needed; works with other departments to create and finalize contracts and set time schedules for delivery services.
- Follows up with customers to track satisfaction levels and to discover additional revenue opportunities.
- Develops a basic understanding of company pricing, licensing procedures and approvals matrix.
- Fully utilizes account planning process and tools (Account Plans and Opportunity Plans within BASE).
- Performs other duties, as assigned.
Additional Responsibilities
- Applies knowledge of company marketing goals and objectives, SAS applications, supported hardware platforms, marketing and business trends, and industry knowledge to assess account needs.
- Recommends appropriate solutions.
- Works closely with virtual sales team, account managers and executives to facilitate timely response to highly qualified, high revenue potential leads.
- Assists in evaluation of territory or account potential; uses BASE or Strategic selling methodology, pipeline management and forecasting to identify accounts with high "close" potential, qualifies, and forecasts time frames to close business.
- Develops action plans to close business for accounts.
- Develops plans to identify accounts that have the potential for further development and executes them.
- Teams with pre-sales resources and executives on strategic account development opportunities.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of basic sales techniques; knowledge of hardware and/or software acquisitions cycles and buying influences.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate territory dynamics and develop a sales plan; ability to communicate technical and business concepts and relate them to SAS applications and user needs; ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Technology Sales Experience.
- Ability to analyze situations and make informed decisions using critical thinking, innovation and research.
- Willingness to learn, troubleshoot and think outside the box to grow annual revenue within the territory.
- Have a confident, enthusiastic approach to working with customers and clients.
- Ability to travel 50% or as business needs require.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, MIS, or other relevant discipline.
- Requires a minimum of three years of experience in the sales, marketing, or technical support of computer software solutions (including related training products and services), computer hardware, or telecommunications software/hardware.
- Specific industry related experience may be considered in combination with the above requirements.
Preferences
- Evidence of quota attainment.
- Retail, consumer packaged goods, media, or services experience.
- Preferred location for this position is the Northeastern United States
Equivalency
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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Please note that this posting is only an expression of interest to the 2019-2020 On-Campus Leader opportunity. We will be posting our specific On-Campus Leaders positions in the Spring of 2019, and you will need to take the next step of applying for those positions. We will be sure to notify you when those specific positions are available on www.sas.com/intern.
SAS, the world leader in Data Analytics, and a year over year Best Place to Work, has an opportunity for university students called “SAS On-Campus”. Do you want to bring new opportunities to your university and peers? If you are well connected on campus, and someone that is looking for more than just your typical part time college job; this could be the role for you.
What’s SAS on-Campus? A part-time opportunity for students to represent SAS’ innovative data analytics products and award-winning work culture on-campus at your university. This opportunity is a remote position, where you will communicate via weekly conference calls.
What’s Expected? The SAS On-Campus Student Leaders will be responsible for completing a weekly mission that should take approximately 5-7 hours a week. Missions could include collecting information, networking with students/professors, or helping to host an event.
What’s in it for the Student?
- Opportunity to travel to our world headquarters in Cary NC, all expenses paid, for a training summit where you receive 1.5 days of hands-on training.
- Enhance your professional development, leadership, technical and communication skills
- Build relationships and exchange best practices with students from other schools and disciplines in this program
- Excellent resume builder
Responsibilities
- Flex your leadership skills by promoting, organizing and facilitating on-campus events geared towards students and professors
- Collaborate with campus organizations to grow the community of SAS users
- Assist with the identification of student talent for SAS job openings
- Establish beneficial connections on campus to help promote the SAS brand
- Provide insight to help SAS better understand your school’s culture
Preferred Skills
- Prefer enrollment as a full-time student at one of the following universities, and students from other universities are welcome to submit their interest.
- Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, Texas A&M, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- Undergraduate or masters student not graduating prior to December 2020. Student must be enrolled in a degree seeking program during the fall semester of 2020.
- Excellent command of the English Language
- Excellent communication skills, including written and oral
- Self-starter and results oriented
- Excellent time-management, organization, planning, and implementation skills
- Experience with SAS products or SAS programming
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 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. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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The Technical Account Managers (TAMs) in our Global Hosting U.S. Professionals Services Group (GHUSPS) at SAS are specialized Managed Services professionals who work with customers to ensure that the SAS solutions meet and evolve with the business needs.
Our TAM's possess knowledge of the unique technical environments, industry best practices, and current and future SAS solutions. In addition, the TAM's provide a valuable partnership that optimizes collaboration with the extended SAS network of professionals to help realize premier customer service.
Responsibilities:
- Manage assigned Enterprise Accounts that have transitioned to the Managed Services team.
- Champion and advocate for customer requirements within SAS (voice of the customer).
- Function as a front-line Managed Services technical resource for best practices, standards and preventative maintenance.
- Work hands-on with customer technical resources to mitigate and debug hosting issues.
- Participate in a required Major Incident Management on-call rotation, to assist in driving and coordinating resolution, including calls, escalations (both technical and hierarchic), coordinating all incident support activities with global 24x7 teams, documenting events, and conducting post-mortem reviews.
- Analyze incidents and problems to proactively prevent the occurrence of further incidents and problems.
- Ensure effective and timely communication while working collaboratively with relevant parts of the business, sharing knowledge and best practice to optimize performance.
- Ensure timely and appropriate communication with all involved parties.
- Prepare documentation of known faults and resolutions for customer consumption.
- Provide detailed reporting and reviews of service disruptions, metrics, and SLA adherence.
- Collaborate on technical issues with SAS Global Hosting and SAS IT teams to drive issue resolution, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective action.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of technical / IT consulting, applications configuration and/or technical account management.
- Experience in Networking / Data Center Operations.
- Understanding of multi-tiered application architecture and configuration.
Preferences:
- Expertise with Cloud / SaaS applications and infrastructure.
- Understanding of SAS products and database structures.
- Experience with Service Now.
- Strong fault finding/ diagnostics/ trouble-shooting skills.
- Proficiency in process formulation and process improvement.
- Strong working knowledge of IT operations and support organizations.
- Strong customer service focus, excellent communication skills – both oral and written, and the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment.
- Ability to set priorities and deliver objectives without the need of day-to-day supervision.
- Must be a self-starter, work independently and be able to work well under pressure.
- ITIL v3 Foundation Certification preferred but not required.
Additional Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to speak at an appropriate technical and business level for the audience and prepare written proposals and recommendations.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proven ability to build and manage relationships effectively.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills; ability to handle multiple workstreams /demands simultaneously while adapting to constantly changing requirements.
- A focus on Customer/business satisfaction, with strong interpersonal skills and responsiveness.
- Passionate about customer service and acts with immediacy and urgency.
- Experience with Capacity Planning / Capacity Management Services.
- Experience with Service Level Management.
- Experience with database programming performing simple queries, writing scripts, and generating reports.
- Knowledge of software development methodologies, with emphasis on software and hardware architecture, and infrastructure design and development.
- Travel (up to 10%).
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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As a Senior Account Executive at SAS, you will be responsible for the sale of SAS software products, solutions and services to current and prospective clients in the assigned territory. This is a highly strategic position where your responsibilities will include working with and leading other sales, services, and support personnel to position SAS solutions with clients in the communications and media sector.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Sells software solutions and services to current and prospective customers to achieve required revenue targets.
- Develops a 12/24/36 month account plan for each key client in the territory. Keys to success include understanding the client’s key business objectives, the constraints keeping the client from fully realizing those objectives, how SAS could help the customer to overcome those constraints, and the primary contacts within the client who are charged with overcoming those constraints to drive business success.
- Implements strategies for generating sales opportunities within the territory based on the multi-year account plan and the identified business needs of the client where SAS can address those needs.
- Qualifies each opportunity to determine SAS’ goodness of fit, the client’s readiness to purchase, and the probability of successfully closing each opportunity by developing a formalized opportunity plan for each key sales engagement.
- Leads other sales personnel including technical sales consultants, post sales consultants, SAS management, and SAS legal to prosecute sales engagements and close those opportunities when forecasted.
- Develops an in depth understanding of company pricing and licensing procedures.
- Prepares standard quotations and proposals; works collaboratively with his/her extended sales team to create and finalize contracts and set time schedules for the provision of professional services and training.
- Follows up with customers to track satisfaction levels and to discover additional revenue opportunities.
- Accurately forecasts revenues to ensure sales engagements will close when anticipated and at the forecasted value.
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree; preferably in Business, Marketing, MIS, or other relevant discipline.
- Requires a minimum of five years of experience in direct sales, marketing, or technical sales support of computer software solutions (including related training products and services), computer hardware, or telecommunications software/hardware
- Ability to travel as much as 70% or as business needs require.
- Work location of Chicago, IL is preferred to minimize required travel. Colorado, Kansas City, and Dallas, TX also considered.
Additional Requirements:
- Experience in and knowledge of complex technology solution sales; knowledge of software and/or hardware acquisition cycles and buying influences.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate territory dynamics and develop a sales plan at both the territory and individual client level.
- General understanding of business, analytical, and technical concepts with the ability to communicate and relate SAS’ capabilities to client needs.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Preferences:
- Significant experience selling software solutions into the communications and media industry is preferred.
Equivalency:
- Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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As a Senior Engagement Manager – Consumer and Communications at SAS, you will manage engagements with customers and be responsible for resulting services revenue in the Consumer (Retail/CPG) and/or Communications (Comm and Media) space.
You will lead sales and business development efforts for a broad range of consulting services, such as: implementation delivery of industry solutions, standalone services for analytics, modeling, reporting and data management services, IT administration support and managed services, deployment support and management, business consulting and analytics advisory. You will develop and maintain relationships with customers and software sales channels to ensure a consistent cohesive and comprehensive message to our customers.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Developing business and creating consulting engagement opportunities with customer stakeholders (IT and business/enablers and practitioners) to ensure enablement of assigned customers.
- Manage ongoing services engagements as well as generate new services revenue resulting from continuous engagements with assigned customers.
- Responsible for success of analytics initiatives, programs or functions of assigned customers through continuous engagements enabling the customer.
- Build long-term relationships through competence, trust and credibility with stakeholders and executives across the customer’s organization.
- Ability to create a vision and articulate the value of Consulting Services to CXO level customer stakeholders.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to senior management (CXO) levels.
- Manage services related revenue target to include opportunity pipeline/funnel development, risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis as well as forecast signed services revenue and resource requirements for proposed services engagements.
- Proactively develop and execute services sales strategies to drive software-independent standalone services revenue.
- Act as the Lead Consultant responsible for managing new and on-going services opportunities in strategic accounts that are beneficial to the Company, as well as to the Customer.
- May oversee project management and delivery of ongoing implementations with assigned customers.
- Continuously build expertise and advisory skills beyond SAS technology on how to successfully enable and deliver analytics programs for customers.
- Travel will vary, but could include spending up to 50% of your time in-person, onsite with customer stakeholders; travel will be dependent upon sales cycles.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Coordinate resources for the sales and implementation of complex services agreements.
- Actively participates in services pre-sales calls and presentations; identifies goals, evaluates account needs and designs appropriate demonstrations.
- Provide roadmap to customer of how to incorporate additional SAS solutions into their business.
- Uses domain expertise during the pre-sales cycle as it relates to the customer business issues.
- Provide input into the design and documentation of internal processes.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
- Experience in consulting, services sales, and business development.
- 8+ years of experience in sales, business partner relationship development, or technical functions within the technology industry.
- Experience in at least one vertical market (Retail, CPG, Communications, or Media).
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Demonstrated relationships and credibility, specifically in the Consumer and/or Communications domains.
- Advanced knowledge of strategic sales techniques; SAS solutions and services, architecture and resources.
- Clear understanding of sales strategies and cycles.
- Strategic selling skills, skills in analyzing and evaluating territory dynamics to develop and implement a sales plan.
- Ability to initiate and lead projects.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment but also be able to work independently.
- Excellent problem-solving and conflict resolution skills, decision making, and interpersonal skills.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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As a Senior Manager, Consulting – Consumer and Communications at SAS, you will manage a team of engagement managers, as well as individual engagements with customers and be responsible for resulting services revenue in the Consumer (Retail/CPG) and/or Communications (Comm and Media) space.
You and your team will lead sales and business development efforts for a broad range of consulting services, such as: implementation delivery of industry solutions, standalone services for analytics, modeling, reporting and data management services, IT administration support and managed services, deployment support and management, business consulting and analytics advisory. You will develop and maintain relationships with customers and software sales channels to ensure a consistent cohesive and comprehensive message to our customers.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Build long-term relationships through competence, trust and credibility with stakeholders and executives across the customer’s organization.
- Ability to create a vision and articulate the value of Consulting Services to CXO level customer stakeholders.
- Manage services related revenue target including opportunity pipeline/funnel development, risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis as well as forecast signed services revenue and resource requirements for proposed services engagements.
- Collaborates regularly with appropriates pre-sales, sales, divisional or global management to ensure progress toward joint goals pertinent to Division or Corporate objectives
- Lead the team in developing business and creating consulting engagement opportunities with customer stakeholders (IT and business/ enablers and practitioners) to ensure enablement of assigned customers.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to senior management (CXO) levels.
- Proactively develop and execute services sales strategies to drive software-independent standalone services revenue.
- Oversees the practice objectives and the acquisition and development of resources to meet those objectives
- Actively managers the team portfolio to balance workload assignments and resources with achievement of Division metrics for sales revenue, realization, and customer satisfaction (both internal and external)
- Provides staff with clear understanding of responsibilities, accountabilities and growth plan by communicating and managing work assignments, training, and performance evaluation
- Keeps abreast of trends in the related and competitive marketplace
- Ensures staff compliance with established policies and procedures including, but not limited to, time reporting, project administration/reporting, skills inventory, staff profiles, methodologies, quality assurance and project closeout
- Continuously build expertise and advisory skills beyond SAS technology on how to successfully enable and deliver analytics programs for customers.
- Travel will vary but could include spending up to 50% of your time in-person, onsite with customer stakeholders; travel will be dependent upon sales cycles.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Coordinate resources for the sales and implementation of complex services agreements.
- Actively participates in services pre-sales calls and presentations; identifies goals, evaluates account needs and designs appropriate demonstrations.
- Provide roadmap to customer of how to incorporate additional SAS solutions into their business.
- Uses domain expertise during the pre-sales cycle as it relates to the customer business issues.
- Provide input into the design and documentation of internal processes.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
- Experience in consulting, services sales, and business development.
- 12+ years of experience in sales, business partner relationship development, project management, or technical functions within the technology industry.
- Experience in the Retail vertical market highly preferred.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Demonstrated relationships and credibility specifically in the Consumer and/or Communications domains.
- Advanced knowledge of strategic sales techniques; SAS solutions and services, architecture and resources.
- Experience leading sales strategies and cycles.
- Strategic selling skills, skills in analyzing and evaluating multiple territory dynamics to develop and implement a sales plan.
- Ability to initiate and lead projects.
- Ability to work and lead effectively in a team environment but also be able to work independently.
- Excellent problem-solving and conflict resolution skills, decision making, and interpersonal skills
- Strong management, communication and leadership skills; demonstrated team-building, organizational, and planning skills.
- Ability to conceptualize client needs and translate them into specific implementation strategies, superior problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated business and consulting knowledge; superior executive presence, including negotiation and presentation skills.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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Are you looking for something more than just an internship? SAS is making a difference in people’s lives all around the world. SAS’ intern program gives you the opportunity to help create analytics software that turns data – about customers, operations, financial, and more – into insight. In 140 countries, our customers use SAS to battle cybercrime, speed drugs to market, streamline supply chains, boost marketing and so much more. And you can do all of this in one place – our World Headquarters in Cary, NC.
During your summer at SAS, you’ll partner with some of the brightest minds in the world on business-critical projects, and you’ll have the opportunity to be immersed in our award-winning culture, grow your social and professional network, interact with our senior leadership, and share your contributions with the entire company.
If you are a rock star student looking for the next step to build your career, the SAS intern program is the perfect fit for you. Take a look at the variety business internship opportunities below.
This is a year-round internship opportunity for local students only and in close proximity to Cary, NC. You must not be graduating prior to December 2019.
Overview
SAS Deep Learning team in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) division is one of the core teams at SAS R&D to lead the research and development of deep learning framework. You will research new deep learning and streaming analytics algorithms and help design the pipeline to solve the customers’ problems.
You will also contribute developing the open-sourced Python deep learning package DLPy (https://github.com/sassoftware/python-dlpy) and the streaming analytics package ESPPy
(https://github.com/sassoftware/python-esppy).
Your works will help us improve the algorithms and shape the next generation of SAS analytics.
What are we looking for?
- Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university seeking a computer science, statistics, and any other majors involving large scale science computing in a US Based school.
- Love programming and data mining
- Students must not be graduating prior to the beginning of the internship, and be enrolled to return to school after the internship ends.
- Familiar with Python and data mining experience.
Responsibilities:
- Apply our SAS machine learning algorithms for data mining and data competition such as Kaggle
- Apply our SAS deep learning toolkit for various domains including images, texts, and audios
- Work on prototyping new machine learning ideas
- May occasionally help with diagnosing/fixing bugs, but will mostly work on new connectivity feature development.
Required Skills:
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Java, Python is a bonus.
- Proficiency in linux development environments, and building apps & libraries for linux targets.
- Experience working with 3rd party open source libraries.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP networking basics.
- Experience with message bus architectures like Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Basic knowledge of database SQL operations and concepts.
Nice to have:
- Experience with any Event Stream Processing products or concepts.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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SAS believes in the whole employee experience. Meaningful work. Empowerment to make a difference that changes people’s lives. Dynamic work environments that foster innovation. And an award-winning culture that makes it all possible. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We build software for the world's most talented thinkers. That means we need to push boundaries daily. At SAS, you’ll be encouraged to use your imagination and constantly try new things.
On day one, you will be a valued part of our Technical Support team. You will collaborate with some of the best minds in Technical Support and will be mentored by people who have a passion to share their knowledge. You will never stop learning and will be encouraged to bring your best to work every day.
To prepare you for this, you’ll attend a 16-week technical training program in Cary, NC. In addition to providing soft skills training, the Technical Support Academy provides training in core SAS technology areas. You’ll receive the tools necessary to enable you to provide support for enterprise-class SAS software applications and/or solutions, and at the end of the program, you will have the opportunity to achieve no less than six professional SAS certifications.
Here’s what we’re looking for. Could this be you?
- Passionate problem solver.
- Deeply curious about technology and how things work.
- Highly creative, with excellent research skills.
- Ready to tackle difficult challenges.
- Service-minded and able to deliver excellent customer service with confidence.
- Willing to ask for help and share knowledge.
Our promise to you: You will want to run—not walk—to work every day!
Upon completion of the Technical Support Academy, your regular activities will include:
- Providing primarily second level support, troubleshooting, prioritizing, diagnosing, and managing customer reported problems including writing thorough, detailed problem descriptions
- A significant portion of your day will include working with customers who are experiencing outages or interruption in service related to their SAS Business Intelligence software.
- You are evaluating, setting and managing internal and external expectations, including escalation activities and communications. This is often under pressure where decisions have a significant business impact for SAS and customers.
- Communicate with the customer by phone, email, and WebEx while troubleshooting the problem
- Learning and utilizing knowledge of complex interactions between multiple SAS system components and third-party products to help diagnose and resolve software problems. Might replicate customer environments to reproduce and debug problems.
NOTE:
This position is part of a dedicated team which does weekend on-call support from Friday 8 pm until Sunday around 7 pm. Until the Academy completion plus about four months of onboarding, you will work Monday-to-Friday standard office hours. After that, you will switch to a schedule including three contiguous weekdays (working standard office hours) plus ½ of the weekend (performing on-call support). You will participate in a three-week rotation where the weekdays stay the same, but the weekend oncall hours will be different each weekend.
We'll expect you to have these essential qualifications:
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Graduating no later than May/June 2019.
- Experience with C, Java, Python, SAS or programming in a third or fourth generation language.
- Real passion for collaborating with colleagues to build technical solutions to solve tough problems.
- You need to be strong in at least one of the following operating systems, but familiar with all: Windows, UNIX or LINUX.
- Work or academic experience in technology areas such as business application development, client/server, data warehousing, database management systems, data presentation, and visualization, or web applications and services.
- Have a real passion for software support, as demonstrated by previous internships, work experience, projects, or publications.
- Last but not least, you need to be articulate. That means you can write an email with perfect spelling and grammar, be able to speak confidently and politely and be a rock star when it comes to being able to summarize complex solutions to customers in plain, readable English.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law (PDF). Also view the supplement EEO is the Law (PDF), and the notice Pay Transparency (PDF).
The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
Summary:
We are seeking a cleared, innovative and dedicated individual to join our SAS Government practice as a Technical Architect. This individual would need to have an active TS/SCI or higher clearance. As a member of the technical architecture Government practice, you will leverage your detailed technical knowledge of specific SAS methodologies, projects, and technologies to support sales opportunities and large-scale implementations in the State and Federal government market.
We are looking for client-facing cleared architects with a talent for delivering SAS solutions, with an analytics skillset, conveying knowledge transfer and composing documentation. Duties include understanding client business pains and translating them into requirements for software solutions; collaborating with other professional services colleagues, project managers, and sales teams on customer implementations; providing technical expertise to pre-sales efforts as necessary; keeping abreast of relevant developments and trends; and performing other duties as assigned. Some travel is necessary to support consulting or pre-sales engagements at customer sites located throughout the United States.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Be an innovator that can evaluate business problems and creatively provide solutions
- Use SAS analytics and Business Intelligence solutions to help solve customer business issues
- Need to be a self-reliant leader and be able to function within a team
- Performs installation of SAS software solutions and any required supporting products
- Performs knowledge transfer of SAS Platform to customers.
- Scopes and defines work effort, supports resource planning and estimates cost on technical aspects of the project. Conducts project requirements gathering.
- Work on consulting projects and special projects as assigned; acts as technical lead as assigned
- Provides reliable delivery of targeted project results through role as expert in the application of specific SAS methodologies, projects and technologies.
- Leverages detailed technical knowledge to support sales opportunities and implementations across solution domains.
- May perform advanced or complex prototyping for SAS foundation technologies.
- May conduct pre-sales implementations to prove functional capabilities, including on-site support as required.
- May assist in the response to RFI/RFPs utilizing the RFP Repository and crafting thorough and compelling answers.
- Strategizes with sales team to provide functional and technical leadership for sales opportunities.
- Participates in product and solution training to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings.
- Understands, utilizes and communicates best practice methodologies and industry standards internally and externally.
- Provides leadership and mentoring to other technical SAS resources.
- Performing other duties, as assigned
Qualifications
Essential:
- Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information or higher
- Experience with analytical programming using SAS, SPSS, Python, R, or other similar software
- Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or any IT related field.
- 4 years’ experience in enterprise software and architecture
- US Government experience
- Travel requirements are approximately 50% or as business requirements dictate at management discretion
- Primary job location is Northern Virginia/DC/Baltimore area
Preferred:
- Experience with SAS Architecture, SAS Analytics and Business Intelligence Solutions
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate with people of various technical and business backgrounds, including the ability to explain difficult technical concepts in simple terms to business users.
- Ability to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core SAS offerings.
- Ability to execute against a general set of objectives creatively and in a self-directed manner.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work as an individual or as part of a team.
- Microsoft Office skills.
- Previous Federal government experience involving data management or data analysis.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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SAS believes in the whole employee experience. Meaningful work. Empowerment to make a difference that changes people’s lives. Dynamic work environments that foster innovation. And an award-winning culture that makes it all possible. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. Whether you're a university recruit, or an experienced professional ready for the next big challenge, SAS brings perks, passion, and the potential to grow. No limits.
SAS is seeking a hands-on Cloud Developer to help usher SAS into the modern era of Cloud Computing and Automation in a DevOps team. You will help set the standards and automation for building, deploying, managing automated IaaS and SAS deployments and self-service automation for customers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop UI features and recommend designs to improve user experience.
- Work directly with end users and stakeholders to understand business needs and workflow and translate them into UI and backend technical requirements.
- Analyze the company’s existing cloud deployments/topologies/automation and recommend changes based on your experience and industry best-practices.
- Create blueprints for future automation that minimize costs while maximizing performance, reliability, and manageability of SAS deployments.
- Recommend tools/approaches for manageability, zero downtime, scalability, repeatability, automation.
- Guide and participate in the implementation and coding of the UI, APIs, and backend services you conceive and design
- Create automation frameworks for deploying and supporting IaaS in AWS and private clouds.
- Train and mentor staff in the new standards and processes
Requirements
Essential:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management information systems or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years' experience in large-scale, multi-platform enterprise systems, preferably focused around application hosting, UI/UX, API, and software development
Preferred:
- Experience with SAS 9.x and Viya
- Thorough knowledge of cloud based architectures and scalable distributed systems
- Strong development capabilities with modern interpreted languages (ideally Python and Angular). Must provide examples of complex problem solving/automation via one of these languages (Python, Node, Ruby, Go, PowerShell, etc)
- Mid to deep understanding of Linux and Windows administration. Must demonstrate you know your way around the OS's command line and where key OS settings are kept.
- 2+ years’ experience architecting and implementing systems using Amazon AWS services (e.g., EC2/S3/CloudFormation/IAM) or Docker containers / Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Ansible and orchestration of system administration tasks.
- Thorough hands-on knowledge of CICD deployment and monitoring tools along with the appropriate use-cases for using these tools
- Deep understanding of service-oriented computing in the modern Cloud era (e.g. consuming services through code instead of creating, communicating with services via API's/REST/JSON and orchestrating multiple services in an application
- Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS including the differences between the three and where they overlap
- Understanding of load balancing and scalability techniques
- Domain knowledge in fault-tolerant, highly-available system
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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SAS believes in the whole employee experience. Meaningful work. Empowerment to make a difference that changes people’s lives. Dynamic work environments that foster innovation. And an award-winning culture that makes it all possible. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. Whether you're a university recruit, or an experienced professional ready for the next big challenge, SAS brings perks, passion, and the potential to grow. No limits.
SAS is moving our development teams and software into the cloud, using AWS, under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. The world is becoming more cloud oriented and we, at SAS, are striving to meet this demand. This is an opportunity to be part of a first of its kind product and service here at SAS! We are looking for a strong, diverse and talented engineer to help us get there.
As a Cloud Developer at SAS and as part of an agile team delivering critical services, you will develop microservices that can scale to consume large volume of events and process the events in real-time with high availability and low latency. You will be working across the boundaries of development, test, information technology and enterprise hosting to pursue new challenges focused on the Customer Intelligence domain.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established company consistently ranked among the best places to work globally, join a high-performing team as well as make a deep and lasting impact with excellent career-growth opportunities. If this sounds like the new challenge you have been looking for and you meet the requirements below, please apply immediately and take your skills to the next level.
Essential Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Java programming skills.
- Linux system scripting (Bash, Python, etc…)
- Experience with the Spring Framework.
- Experience with automated testing in a development environment.
Preferences:
- Developing cloud services in a CI/CD environment.
- Experience with microservices and REST interfaces.
- Javascript programming skills.
- Automated unit testing.
- Experience with:
- Dev/Ops
- Git, GitLab and/or Jenkins
- Distributed real-time systems
- Knowledge of:
- Apache Kafka
- Redis or other distributed caches
- Databases (DynamoDB, RDS, etc..)
- Docker containers
- Kubernetes
Additional Abilities and Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and with a team.
- Self-starter and ability to work and deliver across an entire system.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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SAS believes in the whole employee experience. Meaningful work. Empowerment to make a difference that changes people’s lives. Dynamic work environments that foster innovation. And an award-winning culture that makes it all possible. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. Whether you're a university recruit, or an experienced professional ready for the next big challenge, SAS brings perks, passion, and the potential to grow. No limits.
SAS is seeking a Software Developer who will work on the SAS Customer Intelligence solution suite. You will be building cloud-ready software with high availability and scalability. You will be a member of a self-driven agile team that delivers customer-ready software to satisfy business requirements at the end of every iteration.
Your duties in this role include:
- Analyze, design, develop, enhance and support Design Center mid-tier that integrate with existing Customer Intelligent Solutions components utilizing established processes, frameworks, and technologies.
- Undertake appropriate and thorough testing on code changes, including writing unit tests and automated test cases and performing integration testing.
- Perform support tasks to comprehensively analyze application and process issues, including problem identification, communication and coordination with customer-facing support teams, possible mitigation strategies, and implementation of solutions.
- Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning and daily scrums on assigned projects.
- Regularly communicate work progress with management, identifying issues early and resolving them quickly to avoid or minimize impact to projects.
- Prototyping and demonstrating solutions.
- Working closely with the agile team (product management, usability analysts, UI developers, and test).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field
- Experience with object-oriented programming and Java application development using several of the following: Java, J2EE, JDBC, JPA, REST, Spring.
- Experience developing large scale software
- Experience working with one or more relational databases and their associated access tools (eg: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL).
- Knowledge of Agile software development practices.
- Understanding of web service concepts and implementations
- Development experience in Unix and Windows environments
Additional:
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational and programming skills
- Experience with Agile, specific practices of Scrum and TDD
- Excellent estimation abilities in scoping work in a highly complex multi-tier system
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Proven track record of delivering innovative software solutions
- Experience working with training and documentation teams
- Experience working with Technical Support on customer related issues
Preferences:
- Experience with enterprise system concepts:
- High availability
- Real-time performance
- Scalability
- Security
- Excellent programming, communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail, and ability to adapt to changing business requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage time across multiple projects, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects on schedule.
- Ability to work independently and with a team.
- Ability to learn and retain complex business processes and apply that knowledge to assigned tasks.
- Experience developing using the SAS programming language.
- Experience developing and supporting enterprise-level applications and processes.
- Experience writing automated tests.
- Experience providing on-call support for critical systems and applications.
- Experience with asynchronous messaging systems.
- Experience using source control.
- Experience working with continuous integration tools.
- Experience developing applications to run on cloud application platforms
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience with TCServer, Spring
- Experience with HTML5
- Experience with SAS Platform
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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SAS believes in the whole employee experience: meaningful work, empowerment to make a difference that changes people’s lives, dynamic work environments that foster innovation, and an award-winning culture that makes it all possible. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. Whether you're a university recruit, or an experienced professional ready for the next big challenge, SAS brings perks, passion, and the potential to grow with no limits.
We are seeking an Inside Sales Systems Engineer focused on supporting Latin America Inside Sales initiatives. You will provide both industry and technical skills assisting clients to solve business problems while ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction. You should have the ability to present SAS products and solutions and contrast the key differentiators on competitors. The role involves using the entire portfolio of SAS Technology in the Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence space (such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Languages Processing, Forecasting, Model Management, Streaming) as well as Open Source, to address the customers’ business needs with the most appropriate and innovative technologies and make sure they efficiently fit into existing and new business processes. Awareness of approaches to scale and actually operationalize analytics is expected.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Leverages knowledge of a domain, industry, or SAS Solution to help clients understand how best to automate processes and enhance business objectives by using SAS.
- Conducts discovery meeting to collect, analyze, clarify and document business requirements during the advisory cycle to support the implementation team and to produce a detailed solution proposal.
- Scopes and defines work effort, resource plan and estimates cost on phase/project. Conducts project requirements gathering.
- Strategizes with teams on objectives for customer meetings, understands how this activity relates to the strategic account plan and provides functional solution leadership for client opportunities.
- Builds a trusted relationship with the client to provide practical and theoretical guidance in the business value of proposed solution and set proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction while informing and acting on behalf of the Account Team.
- Develop and deliver standard, customized and/or strategic, senior level solution prototypes and presentations outlining the functional capabilities, competitive advantages and business benefits of the SAS solutions as they apply to client needs.
- May work on consulting projects and special projects as assigned; acts as technical lead on projects as assigned (Consulting).
- Provides reliable delivery of targeted project results through role as expert in the application of specific SAS methodologies, projects and technologies.
- Participates in product and solution training to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings and assigned solution areas, how each solution addresses business challenges, competitive information to identify how our solution stands apart, and what challenges/limitations may be encountered.
- Understands, utilizes and communicates best practice methodologies internally and externally.
- Provides support for regional business development activities and marketing events.
- Works proactively with Systems Engineers, Technical Architects and other Solutions Architects to strategize on opportunities, cross-training and knowledge transfer
- Ability to work comfortably with directors and C-level executives as customers and partners
- Business acumen and sales-driven approach
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, and English
- Demonstrated leader in a single analytical domain or industry (publishes articles, leads demand generation activities, and speaks in the business track at conferences/events)
- Good facilitation and communications skills.
- Strong customer presentation, demonstration, public speaking skills.
- Narrate statistical and technical concepts to diverse audience.
- Strong problem solving, organizational, decision-making skills.
Technical
- Strong programming skills – e.g. SAS, Python, R
- Strong knowledge of applied statistics, data mining and predictive modeling techniques.
- Experience in supervised or unsupervised machine learning algorithms and data modelling techniques
- Understanding of deployment concepts such as API, REST, Microservices, containers
- Experience with Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence (NLP, Data, Image, Voice, etc.), Analytics in Event Stream Processing, or Decision Management software.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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Summary:
Love bringing visual experiences to life through web and digital experience? If so, then jump on in.
Ideal Candidate:
Must be willing to think big, accept big challenges, take risks, design your butt off, compete with A+ creative, UX and technologists and want to excel in brining awesome visual experiences to life on the web. Show a proven passion for end user experience, technology and creative design abilities. You’ll also work alongside some of the best and brightest corporate UX professionals, so bringing you’re a game is a must.
Also, must be willing to jump in deep with user research – usability research, a/b testing and more. Understanding how users actually use the web is a critical must-have for designing great web UX experiences.
Provides web usability design to continually evolve and enhance the user experience of the digital channels. Creates, evaluates and modifies creative for use on web properties. Develops designs, with emphasis on use cases, top user tasks, business goals, user interface standards and best practices, as well as user research and usability goals.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating intuitive, visually appealing and effective web designs and experiences for sas.com.
- Understands how to bring to life powerful brand experiences, as well as product and technology experiences through visual and interactive design.
- Designing UX experiences that help produce lead generation, and drive web visitors to relevant content and next step experiences.
- Perform user centered research including, but not limited to, persona development, usability testing, A/B testing, geo-targeted testing and competitive analysis.
- Work with constituents and stakeholders to build use cases based on an understanding of functional requirements, business goals and user top tasks.
- Maintain and evolve vision and understanding of UI/UX trends in the ever-changing landscape. Well versed in fundamental visual and interactive design disciplines and principles
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to develop requirements that will be reflected in low fidelity UI (user interface) wireframe prototypes.
- Design and develop high-fidelity wireframes, mockups/comps and functional prototypes to communicate designs and functionality effectively.
- Conduct user testing, design reviews and presentations to stakeholders as needed.
- Develop, create and code web pages based on user centered design including, but not limited to, HTML, CSS, CMS pages (currently Adobe Experience Manger), as well as, various scripting.
- Assist with development and implementation of documentation for global web deployments and web governance.
- Integrate corporate branding initiatives and standards into designs.
- Strong writing and content skills a must.
- Works as part of a web implementation team with expanded scope of influence.
- Influences the CMS development team to support UCD and enhanced user experiences.
- Focuses on user goals and top tasks to achieve those goals.
- Recognizes design challenges that may have been solved by others and whether those solutions are relevant to product.
- Seeks guidance in solving design and evaluation problems.
- Demonstrates awareness of market/ competitors and knowledge of users in problem solving.
- Independently develops long term strategy for usability work on product.
- Employs a diverse set of methods and tools.
- Looks for opportunities to collect user data to demonstrate that usability has positively impacted the product.
- May present to customers based on work on specific product.
- Serves as a primary source of information about user behavior in a specific domain.
- Designs and runs product usability benchmark studies, usability field studies & contextual design projects.
- Guides creation of user scenarios and personas for product.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proficient in experimental and quasi-experimental design for the purposes of usability evaluation and design comparisons
- Proficient in quantitative and qualitative data analysis including questionnaire development
- Proficient in interview techniques
- Able to identify emerging interaction patterns within internal and external software
- Creates screen mock-ups to effectively communicate designs
- Develops low fidelity and high-fidelity UI prototypes
- Makes design recommendations based on research findings and standard design practices
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree required in one of the following disciplines: Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Design, or related field.
- User experience design and analysis or related experience.
Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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The Account Executive - Enterprise Services will be responsible for sales of SAS software products, solutions and services in a high volume, multi-tasking environment to prospective and current accounts.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Sells software, solutions and services to current and prospective customers; works with other sales/pre-sales/domain/personnel to position and leverage sales opportunities to acquire, grow and retain customers within assigned territory.
- Fulfills wide range of requests for information from prospective customers. Qualifies level of opportunity and resources required.
- Prospects within a territory or account to uncover business needs.
- Implements aspects of territory and account management and development; identifies accounts with high "close" potential, qualifies, advances opportunity through milestone steps of sales cycle and forecast time frames to close business.
- Works closely with pre-sales resources and executives to facilitate timely response to highly qualified, high revenue potential opportunities.
- Prepares standard quotations and proposal information as needed; works with other departments to create and finalize contracts and set time schedules for delivery services.
- Follows up with customers to track satisfaction levels and to discover additional revenue opportunities.
- Develops a basic understanding of company pricing, licensing procedures and approvals matrix.
- Fully utilizes account planning process and tools
Additional Responsibilities:
- Applies knowledge of company goals and objectives, SAS applications, supported hardware platforms, marketing and business trends, and industry knowledge to assess account needs.
- Recommends appropriate solutions.
- Works closely with virtual sales team, account managers and executives to facilitate timely response to highly qualified, high revenue potential leads.
- Develops action plans to close business for accounts.
- Develops plans to identify accounts that have the potential for further development and executes them.
- Teams with pre-sales resources and executives on strategic account development opportunities.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of basic sales techniques; knowledge of hardware and/or software acquisitions cycles and buying influences.
- Ability to analyze and evaluate territory dynamics and develop a sales plan; ability to communicate technical and business concepts and relate them to SAS applications and user needs; ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to travel 50% of the time or as business needs require.
- Preferred Location: Dallas, Texas
- Additional Location: Chicago, IL
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, MIS, or other relevant discipline.
- Requires a minimum of five years of experience in the sales, marketing, or technical support of computer software solutions (including related training products and services), computer hardware, or telecommunications software/hardware.
Equivalency:
- Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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You’re more than a seasoned PR pro – you are a force of nature. A master collaborator, communications strategist, storyteller and influencer, you’re obsessed with finding ways to increase talkability, and impacting culture at every turn, and your track record proves it.
This position supports corporate and brand objectives through the conception, creation, and management of social media content, press placement, and internal storytelling. Partnering with Corporate and Executive Communications, you are responsible for developing and directing an owned and earned media strategy across platforms and working with internal and external content creators, media partners, and creative agencies to bring it to life.
The role is part big picture strategy, part tactical brand storyteller, and has a strong understanding of and interest in our customer's mindset, how analytics is shaping culture and the world today, and a strong working knowledge of the data and technology space. The incumbent must be cognizant of the brand goals and strategy, fluent in social media best practices, content creation methods, press engagement and buzz building, and must be highly collaborative, organized and agile.
This position has a broad functional responsibility and possesses the ability to align cross-organizational teams, as well as associate and connect data points to one another.
Expectations:
- Understand social, influencer and internal/external communications strategies and how they combine to shape brand perception.
- Combine big-picture, strategic world-view with a roll-up-your-sleeves, let’s just make-stuff-happen spirit.
- Make breaking down silos and working across disciplines look easy.
- Find and seize the white space in cultural moments, helping us make our work more culturally relevant.
- Voracious reader and connoisseur of culture with finger on the pulse of the shifting digital news media landscape.
- Comfortable with crunch-time thinking and able to deliver quick-hitting, powerful ideas in the front of a room.
- Strong knowledge of the earned media landscape - an earned-first approach is your north star.
- Expert at integrating the right parties against the right idea – a master web builder bringing everyone and everything around a central idea to make it bigger.
- Excellent communication, presentation and persuasion skills.
- Deep rolodex of press contacts across mainstream and multiple industries, and a knowledge of how to storytell to both the B2B and B2P audiences.
- Digital media savvy, with enough overall knowledge to be.
- Experiential event planning experience a plus.
- A history and knowledge and relationships from working in the technology space, preferably both B2B and B2C.
- Ability to measure campaigns to demonstrate effect ROI.
- Disruptor, inspirer, leader.
Responsibilities:
- Leading the charge on tightly integrated PR, social, influencer strategies and campaigns that drive buzz and engagement.
- Spearhead storytelling strategies that results in pitching to appropriate media outlets as well as the management of the external PR agencies efforts.
- Work with team to deliver media placements across various channels, including traditional, online, broadcast media, and influencers, and leverage existing relationships with media and develop new relationships.
- Contribute to the development of press and marketing and overall corp communication and creative strategies.
- Leads the strategic direction of organic social initiatives, demonstrating how social can drive business results with understanding of media and platform-specific KPIs.
- Works with comms-focused agencies and keeps cross-functional teams informed.
- Recommends content execution and programming to support comms strategy.
- Work with team to identify Brand Ambassadors/influencers based on brand alignment or advocacy, social influence, and purchase engagement. Helps create and execute influencer and advocacy strategies across social media and the press.
- Interfaces with senior leadership and regularly presents strategies, reporting, and new ideas.
- Integrates tightly with others on Corporate Communications and Creative and Worldwide Marketing teams to produce best-in-class campaigns, strategies and output.
- Leads team by communicating expectations, providing guidance, delivering feedback, and empowering the team to be their best.
SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.
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 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: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency
Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.
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