Senior Product Manager- Data Acceleration

Senior Product Manager For Data Acceleration Hybrid In Cary, North Carolina

We're a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.

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

About The Job

As a Senior Product Manager for Data Acceleration, in collaboration with the wider product strategy team, you will be responsible for driving product strategy across the SAS platform in the areas of high-performance data processing and model execution. In this high-impact role, you will define and evolve the product direction for a portfolio of technologies that accelerate data access, transformation, and analytics execution across hybrid and cloud-native environments.

This includes ownership of SAS SpeedyStore and SAS In-Database Technologies, which enable high-speed model scoring, code acceleration, SAS Visual Analytics (VA) acceleration, and model training. You will also lead the strategy for integrating with open file formats such as Parquet and Iceberg, and enabling remote access to cloud storage platforms like AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.

You will work closely with software engineering teams to develop a platform product vision for this domain and craft detailed requirements to support the development of a robust and scalable product roadmap.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will :

• Develop the vision and roadmap for this product area.
• Define and prioritize product requirements based on business drivers, customer inputs, market needs, and field contributions.
• Define user personas and write use cases.
• Drive product development and collaborate with software development teams based on prioritized requirements and product lifecycle strategy.
• Support product launches by imparting product knowledge to marketing and sales teams.
• Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, senior management stakeholders, customers, press, analysts, influencers, and others.
• Identify new markets, evaluate emerging technologies, and explore business issues that may present opportunities or threats to the company.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

World-Class Benefits

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