Sr Product Manager, Applied AI and Modeling

Sr. Product Manager- Applied AI & Modeling- Remote or Hybrid

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

About the job

The Solutions Product Strategy team is looking for a Senior Product Manager to responsible for driving SAS’ Applied AI and Modeling software portfolio and product strategy.  In this high-profile role, you will be responsible for setting product direction and creating a roadmap in alignment with the portfolio vision.

With your knowledge of public and private cloud computing, you will help grow our “Model-as-a-Product” businesses more quickly. You will be shaping the future of how SAS models as products strategies align with the transformative journey that customers have embarked on to incorporate analytics into their business processes. You will craft new product features that allow customers to easily leverage AI and Modeling capabilities. In addition, you will support SAS solution portfolios deploy these capabilities into industry and horizontal business process products. As the product face of the “Models-as-a-Product” portfolio, you will play a strategic role in sales, marketing, customer support and enablement. You will communicate product content and knowledge to internal constituents and support the external presence of SAS and our offerings

You will

• Define and prioritize product requirements based on business drivers, customer inputs, market direction, and field contribution.
• Help develop cross-cutting portfolio strategy by coordinating with product managers from different product portfolios and lines of business.
• Translate business requirements into technical, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Define user personas and write use cases.
• Drive product development and collaborate with software development teams based on requirements management, risk management, risk mitigation, and product lifecycles.
• Support product launches as primary content provider to facilitate knowledge transfer of product functionality to marketing and sales.
• Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, senior management stakeholders, customers, press, analysts, influencers, and others.
• Identify new market opportunities and evaluate emerging technology and business issues that may present opportunities or threats to the company.
• Serve as a product champion by analyzing external market trends, competition, opportunities that impact the user, and capabilities of the platform.

• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

• You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
• 8+ years of experience preferably in Product Management or alternatively in Software Design or Advanced Analytics  in a commercial context.
• You have a bachelor’s degree or higher in a Product or Computer Science related field with a deep technical background. 
• An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Deep understanding of Applied AI and Modeling principals and capabilities.
• Deep understanding concepts of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business models. 
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

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

Diverse and Inclusive

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

Additional Information:

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

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