Senior Product Manager, Quantum

SAS • Cary HQ, NC

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Product Manager, Quantum, you will define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and requirements for SAS' quantum product portfolio. You will help shape product direction for quantum computing technologies, hybrid quantum-classical workflows, quantum software integrations, and future quantum-enabled solutions. Working closely with engineering, architecture, data science, and quantum subject matter experts, you will identify opportunities for quantum computing to address customer and business challenges. You will also partner with SAS application teams to bring quantum capabilities into SAS software products, analytics workflows, and AI solutions, ensuring advanced technologies are delivered through intuitive user experiences and practical workflows for customers, developers, and researchers.

This position is hybrid in Cary, North Carolina, or remote within the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, quantum information science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• At least 8 years of 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 NISQ-era hardware limitations, 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.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage in technical discussions with customers, partners, and industry analysts.
• Excellent critical thinking skills and a demonstrated history of making good decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across multiple business units.
• Ability to innovate and define creative solutions with compelling user experiences that exceed customer expectations.
• Self-starter with a bias toward action and the ability to balance attention to detail with moving quickly.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must not require now or in the future sponsorship for employment visa status.

Responsibilities

• 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 through requirements management, risk management and mitigation, and product lifecycles.
• Partner and align with Product Commercialization Specialists to define market potential.
• Support product launches as the primary content provider, facilitating knowledge transfer about product functionality to marketing and sales.
• Present product vision, roadmap, and software demonstrations to internal constituents, senior management stakeholders, customers, and analysts.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, data science, quantum experts, and SAS application teams to identify opportunities and incorporate quantum capabilities into SAS products and solutions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans.
• PPO medical plan option with a low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP option combined with a health savings account, including a contribution from SAS.
• Free onsite health care center for employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan; pharmacy prescriptions can be shipped at no additional charge.
• Industry-leading 401(k) plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support employee development.
• Vacation time and a variety of paid holidays, including a 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 full-time employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior