Product Manager- Data Acceleration

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About the role

As a Product Manager for Data Acceleration, you will drive product strategy across the SAS platform for 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 Data Accelerator, which enable high-speed model scoring, code acceleration, SAS Visual Analytics (VA) acceleration, and model training.

You will 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 and craft detailed requirements to support a robust, scalable product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Shape the strategic direction for interoperability with modern data platforms, lakehouse technologies, cloud storage services, and open-table formats to ensure SAS remains integral to customer data architectures, while aligning product plans with corporate strategy and business objectives.
• Define and maintain product roadmaps, priorities, and OKRs; communicate product risks, decisions, and roadmap updates to stakeholders.
• Lead product requirements definition and prioritization based on customer, stakeholder, prospect, and market input; conduct discovery to translate findings into product strategy.
• Drive alignment across Engineering, Design, UX, Program Management, and related teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.
• Define success measures, own post-launch analysis, and develop business cases and product investment recommendations based on customer, market, financial, and product-health data.
• Help shape pricing, positioning, collateral, launch readiness, support readiness, and knowledge transfer; represent the product externally with customers and prospects.
• Own product lifecycle management decisions; identify emerging technologies, business threats, and new market opportunities.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity, and accountability—values that influence everything we do.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management and/or software engineering related to data management, decision management, or AI/analytics.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in data science, computer science, or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Solid working knowledge of modern data management, cloud databases (SingleStore, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse), and Spark-based environments like Databricks.
• Familiarity with one or more open-source runtimes, packages, and libraries (e.g., Python).
• Understanding of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and/or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business models.
• Familiarity with cloud platform provider technologies.
• Ability to translate complex technical and business information for diverse audiences.

Skills

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage in technical discussions with customers, partners, and industry analysts.
• Excellent critical-thinking skills with a demonstrated history of making sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative, global environment across multiple business units.
• Ability to innovate and define creative solutions with compelling user experiences that exceed customer expectations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans with multiple options:
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account (HSA) with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan, including a pharmacy that ships prescriptions at no additional charge.
• Industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and resources to support professional development.
• Generous time off, including:
  • Vacation time and a variety of paid holidays.
  • U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
  • Volunteer Time Off and unlimited paid sick days.
  • Parental leave.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

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.