Senior Product Manager, Quantum

Senior Product Manager (Quantum)- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina or Remote in the US

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About the job

As a Senior Product Manager, Quantum, you will be responsible for defining and driving the product vision, roadmap, and requirements for SAS' quantum product portfolio. In this high-profile role, you will help define product direction for quantum computing technologies, hybrid quantum-classical workflows, quantum software integrations, and future quantum-enabled solutions. You will work closely with engineering, architecture, data science, and quantum subject matter experts to identify opportunities where quantum computing can address customer and business challenges.

In addition, you will work across SAS application teams to bring quantum capabilities to life within SAS software products, analytics workflows, and AI solutions. You will help ensure that advanced quantum technologies are delivered through intuitive user experiences and practical workflows that enable customers, developers, and researchers to explore and adopt quantum computing within the SAS ecosystem.

As a Senior Product Manager, Quantum, you will:

• Define and prioritize product requirements based on business drivers, customer inputs, market direction, and field contribution.
• Translate business requirements into technical, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Define user personas and write use cases.
• Drive product development and collaborate with software development teams based on requirements management, risk management, risk mitigation, and product lifecycles.
• Partner and align with Product Commercialization Specialists to define market potential.
• Support product launches as primary content provider to facilitate knowledge transfer of product functionality to marketing and sales.
• Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, senior management stakeholders, customers, and analysts.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, quantum information science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 8+ years' experience in direct product management or software development related to analytics, AI, scientific computing, or emerging technologies.
• Working knowledge of quantum computing concepts, including qubits, gates, circuits, hybrid quantum-classical workflows, current limitations of NISQ-era hardware, and the anticipated evolution toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
• Familiarity with quantum software development ecosystems, developer tools, and frameworks such as Qiskit, Azure Quantum, AWS Braket, CUDA-Q, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of quantum hardware modalities and their tradeoffs, including superconducting, trapped ion, neutral atom, annealing, and other emerging approaches.
• Understanding of quantum application domains such as optimization, simulation, machine learning, scientific computing, and related analytical workloads.
• Familiarity with cloud-based quantum computing services, APIs, hardware integrations, and hybrid quantum-classical workflows.
• Ability to define product requirements for quantum-enabled capabilities, developer tools, APIs, and platform-based integrations into SAS software products and solutions.
• Understanding of how customers, developers, data scientists, and researchers evaluate and adopt emerging computing technologies.

Additional competencies, knowledge and 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 demonstrated history of making good decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to work in a highly collaborative environment across multiple business units.
• Ability to innovate and define creative solutions with compelling user experiences that exceed customer expectations.
• A self-starter with bias toward action and the know-how to balance getting details right while still moving fast.

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.

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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. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

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