Principal Product Manager for Intelligent Planning – Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina  or remote in NC

About the job   

The Product Management team at SAS is looking for a Technical Principal Product Manager to support the SAS Intelligent Planning software offering. You will be part of a team that defines the vision and roadmap for a portfolio of offerings that bring advanced supply chain analytics and performance management to large global manufacturing, industrial, and consumer goods organizations.

Capabilities within SAS Intelligent Planning for demand planning and supply chain analytics help companies automate and accelerate demand planning insights across their supply chain by detecting forward-looking consumer demand signals and providing recommendations for balanced, profitable plans across all channels, categories, and customers.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will:

• Set and execute the technical product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with platform scalability, performance, and architectural constraints.
• Define and prioritize technical product requirements based on customer, prospect, and evaluator inputs, as well as technical feasibility, performance implications, and system constraints.
• Collaborate with and drive product development in R&D based on requirements management and product lifecycle, with a focus on system behavior, performance, and scalability outcomes.
• Manage the product across its lifecycle, ensuring technical integrity, scalability, and maintainability of delivered capabilities.
• Define technical design patterns for planning implementations in areas such as dimensional modeling, aggregation strategies, and planning area architecture.
• Partner with customer-facing teams to validate technical feasibility and performance implications of customer commitments.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Required qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or related discipline.
• Twelve years of experience in Marketing, Sales, Consulting or related function in the technology industry, preferably including product management.
• Familiarity with lifecycle of developing and deploying applications for at least one major public cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience working with distributed computation frameworks, in-memory analytics platforms, or large-scale planning systems.
• Experience defining performance SLAs, scalability benchmarks, and system constraints for enterprise applications.
• Experience with supply chain planning platforms, scenario modeling, or optimization-based systems.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. 

Additional competencies, knowledge and skills

• Builds partnerships by developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Customer oriented by placing a high priority on the internal or external customer’s perspective when making decisions and taking action; implements service practices that meet the customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Influences by using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes.
• Familiarity with performance tuning in analytical or planning workloads involving large datasets and complex calculations.
• Experience with packaging and deployment technologies including Containers, Kubernetes, and related technologies.
• Experience with application security and/or cloud security.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery development model.

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.  
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• 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. 

You are welcome here.

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.

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.

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