Manager, Product Management - Cloud and Platform job vacancy

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You may work from a remote location for this role. Or, you may join us at SAS Worldwide HQ in Cary, NC or this role.

Are you a problem solver, explorer, and knowledge seeker - always asking, "What if?"

If so, then you may be the new team member we're looking for. Because at SAS, your curiosity matters - whether you're developing algorithms, creating customer experiences or answering critical questions. Curiosity is our code, and the opportunities here are endless.

What we do

We're the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Our curiosity fuels innovation, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo and changing the way we live.

What you'll do

We are seeking a Manager of Product Management in Cloud & Platforms to set, promote, and manage product strategy for the SAS Data and Analytic platforms for public, private and hybrid cloud scenarios. Provide oversight and continuity for your team's individual product manager's vision and direction. Deliver market driven offerings by knowing the market, competition and customers as well as working effectively across the global SAS organization.

Collaborate with engineering team(s) regarding the product line development and contribute to the prioritization and resourcing decisions. Communicate product line content and knowledge to internal constituents. Support the external presence of SAS and our offerings.

You will:

Set, execute, and publish the product line or group of products overall vision and roadmap
Deliver product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, customers, press, analysts, at events, etc. providing domain expertise and thought leadership internally and externally
Define and prioritize product requirements based on customer, prospect, and evaluator inputs, market direction and field contribution
Collaborate with and drives product development in R&D based on requirements management and product lifecycle
Monitor the product development process
Review product vision and roadmap documents (your teams as well as other portfolios)
Support sales, customer facing efforts, launch and go to market plans
Ensure teams are transferring knowledge of product functionality to marketing and sales
Review and contribute to the technical, fact-oriented content used for pricing, positioning and collateral. Review the resulting artifacts to ensure the business strategy and customer perspective is considered
Manage the product line/product across its lifecycle, leveraging available tools
Identify new market opportunities and evaluates emerging technology and business issues that may present opportunities or threats to the company
Work with industry analysts to provide content and demonstrations for various reports and acts as a point of contact for inbound inquiries
Be a product champion by analyzing external market trends, competition, opportunities that impact the user and capabilities of the platform
May manage OEM/Technical Provider relationships
Participate in customer briefings at a strategic level
Select, develop, and evaluate personnel to achieve product management success

What we are looking for:

You're curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related quantitative field.
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS experience and knowledge
8+ years in product management and 3+ years people managment experience
Ability to think strategically and articulate/translate product features and customer values into user and buyer personas
Excellent organizational skills
Ability to articulate customer and business needs into product marketing plans
Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
Excellent communication and negotiation skills
Excellent writing skills including the ability to translate technical information into simple language
Ability to travel as business needs dictate
Serves as member of the senior product management team responsible for determining overall product management strategy for SAS products and services
Establishes and prioritizes department or division responsibilities and objectives relative to department, division, and product management goals
Provides strategic and tactical leadership for product management plan development, implementation, and support
Reviews and approves plans for product management projects development, implementation, and support
Acts as a liaison between department or division and internal and external parties that influence overall product management strategies
Performs all functions related to managing employees including determining resource needs and making requests for personnel, equipment, and other resources, recruiting, interviewing, and selecting new employees
Sets and communicates performance standards and provides performance feedback
Encourages and fosters skill development and professional growth

Nice to haves:

K8s experience
You have experience with consuming software and contributing code to the Apache Software Foundation, and/or other similar Open-Source software management institutes/organization.
Secure Software Design knowledge
Experience with containers, orchestration and "serverless compute."
Experience with SAS administration and/or architecture.
Knowledge and experience with Agile software development methodologies in a Linux/Unix/CentOS operating system environment.

Why SAS

We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy, healthy people have a passion for life, and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world, your unique contributions will make a difference.
Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Here, it isn't about fitting into our culture, it's about adding to it - and we can't wait to see what you'll bring.

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 Pay Transparency notice.

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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ID: #46183165
State: North Carolina Caryhq 27513 Caryhq USA
City: Caryhq
Salary: USD TBD TBD
Job type: Permanent
Showed: 2022-10-03
Deadline: 2022-11-30
Category: Et cetera