Senior Product Manager, IoT- Remote or Hybrid in Glasgow, Scotland

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About the job

The IoT Solutions Product Management team is looking for a Senior Product Manager to drive product strategy for our streaming analytics platform. With your knowledge of AI & IoT powered use cases, Edge-to-Cloud architectures, and Partner ecosystems, you will help SAS increase its market penetration. You will work on a team that shapes SAS’ product strategy for IoT and enables our customers’ transformative journey to incorporate analytics into their business processes

As a Senior Product Manager, you will:

• Define and prioritize product requirements based on customer, prospect, and evaluator inputs, market direction and field contribution.
• Collaborate with and drive product development in R&D based on requirements management and product lifecycle.
• Define user personas and use cases.
• Deliver product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, customers, press, analysts, at events, etc.
• Identify new market opportunities and evaluate emerging technology and business issues that may present opportunities or threats to the company.
• Be a product champion by analyzing external market trends, competition, opportunities that impact the user and capabilities of the platform.
• Work with industry analysts to provide content and demonstrations for various reports and acts as a point of contact for inbound inquiries.
• Participates in and may manage virtual teams comprised of worldwide members.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.

Role Competencies:

• You place a high priority on the internal or external customer’s perspective when making decisions and taking action; implementing service practices that meet the customers’ and own organization’s needs. You seek to understand customers and actively gather information to understand customer circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs.
• You establish and commit to a long-term business direction based on an analysis of systemic information and consideration of resources, market drivers, organizational values, and emerging economic, technological, and regulatory conditions. Seeks perspective—Gathers the information needed to create a sound strategy; pursues required information by asking relevant questions and verifying assumptions.
• You identify and understand problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, gaining consensus and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
• You ensure others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities, measuring progress, and ensuring accountability against those metrics. Maintains focus. Identifies and emphasizes critical priorities to ensure time (team and own) and energy are aligned with important organization goals despite daily distractions.
• You demonstrate excellent product knowledge with external audiences, such as press, thought leaders, analysts, speaking engagements at trade shows and user groups, etc.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, marketing, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in product management or related function in the technology industry, preferably with a software vendor.
• Strong Knowledge and experience with Edge-to-Cloud IoT architectures.
• Knowledge and experience with IoT ecosystems and use cases.
• Familiarity with Analytic techniques and Streaming technologies (experience with commercial or open-source streaming platforms highly desirable).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage in technical discussions with customers, partners, and industry analysts.
• Exceptional presentation skills, distilling complex technical issues into customer consumable summaries which highlight differentiating capabilities
• An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
• 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.

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:

SAS is an equal opportunity 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.

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