Product Manager- Data Acceleration
HybridCary, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Drive product strategy for SAS SpeedyStore and SAS Data Accelerator, enabling high-speed model scoring, code acceleration, and analytics execution across hybrid and cloud-native environments. Lead the roadmap for integrating open file formats like Parquet and Iceberg, and facilitate remote access to cloud storage platforms including AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. Collaborate with engineering, design, and program management teams to define requirements, prioritize features based on customer and market input, and align product plans with corporate objectives. Own post-launch analysis, develop business cases, and represent the product externally to customers and prospects while shaping pricing and launch readiness. Define success measures and identify emerging technologies to ensure SAS remains integral to customer data architectures.
Required Qualifications
- 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 related education, training and experience
- 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 (like Python)
- Understand concepts 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
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status
Desired Qualifications
- 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
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