Senior Product Manager- Core UI

Senior Product Manager (Core UI)- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence - and questions into answers.If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you'll find it here. We're recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.About the jobThe Core UI department is looking for a Senior Product Manager to drive product strategy for Core UI’s shared UI foundation, focusing on reusable components, graph and visualization capabilities, and domain-aligned UI kits that help SAS teams build consistent, accessible, and dependable experiences across products. In this key role, you will set product direction and create roadmaps and lead stakeholder alignment for Core UI foundation capabilities, including UI Component libraries, Graph/Visualization foundations, and reusable Content, Data, and Emerging AI capabilities (Domain Kits) for common product capabilities. With your enterprise software, platform, and user experience knowledge, you will help SAS reduce duplicated UI work, improve adoption of shared foundations, and accelerate consistent product delivery across SAS’s Foundation, Applications, and SaaS divisions. You will bridge technical and business priorities by collaborating closely with customers, product teams, Research & Development, User Experience, Accessibility, Architecture, and Engineering teams. As the face of these shared UI foundation capabilities, you will play a strategic and global role, partnering with engineering, design, architecture, product management, customer support, enablement, sales, and marketing teams. You will communicate product functionality, roadmap direction, adoption guidance, and business value to internal constituents, customers, partners, and community members. As a Senior Product Manager, you will: Define and prioritize requirements for Core UI Components, Graph library, server and services, and Domain Kits based on business drivers, customer inputs, product-team demand, accessibility expectations, and field contribution. Create and maintain roadmaps for reusable UI foundations, including component libraries, data visualization/graph capabilities, and domain kits for common platform/product workflows. Translate business and consumer needs into technical, functional, and non-functional requirements that engineering, design, and architecture teams can execute. Define user personas, adoption scenarios, and use cases for product teams consuming shared UI foundations and domain kits. Drive product development in partnership with software development teams, UX designers, architects, program management, and consuming product teams. Prioritize investments that reduce duplicate implementations, improve product consistency, accelerate adoption, and minimize breaking-change impact for consumers. Present product vision, roadmap, adoption progress, and demonstrations to internal constituents, customers, and leadership audiences. Identify emerging technology, market, and consumer needs that create opportunities or risks for Core UI foundations, graph/visualization capabilities, and Domain Kits. Support launches, migration planning, release readiness, and knowledge transfer to product teams, enablement, marketing, sales, and support teams. 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 qualifications8+ years of experience in Product Management, technical product strategy, platform product management, or related functions in the technology industry.Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, or a related discipline.Experience managing or consuming enterprise UI platforms, design systems, component libraries, graph/visualization frameworks, or reusable developer platforms. Experience building or delivering technical solutions that solve customer or product-team problems at scale. Experience with accessibility, UX standards, API/platform adoption, release planning, and migration/change management. Familiarity with modernization of legacy codebases to modern languages and software practices.Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.Additional competencies, knowledge and skillsExceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage in technical and product discussions with customers, partners, product teams, and engineering leaders. Excellent critical thinking skills with a demonstrated history of making prioritization decisions in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Ability to translate complex technical capabilities into clear product narratives, adoption plans, and customer value propositions. Comfortable delivering presentations, demos, workshops, roadmap reviews, and technical/product content to a range of audiences. Deep understanding of API-driven platforms, component libraries, and shared engineering frameworks, with the ability to guide teams in building consistent, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality software solutions. Ability to and define creative solutions that deliver consistent, accessible, and compelling user experiences.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 developmentGenerous 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. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. 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Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on company news, job updates and more.#SASJob SummaryRequisition ID: 20071263Category: Product ManagementVisa Sponsorship: NoTravel Requirements: None