Sr Director, Decisioning

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Company: SAS Institute
Location: Cary, NC

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Are you a problem solver, explorer, and knowledge seeker – always asking, “What if?”

If so, you may be the new team member we’re looking for. Because at SAS, your curiosity matters – whether you’re developing algorithms, creating customer experiences, or answering critical questions. Curiosity is our code, and the opportunities here are endless.

What we do

We’re the leader in analytics. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. Our curiosity fuels innovation, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo and changing the way we live.

As a Sr Director, Decisioning at SAS, you will be a leader with demonstrated success operationalizing analytics to drive organizational decisioning. You will be passionate about applying your business knowledge, leadership, and collaboration with the discipline of execution for all phases of product development and delivery as a standalone product as well as functionality embedded in more comprehensive SAS Solutions. One of the defining impacts of SAS software is helping customers make better and more timely decisions. Customers don’t want to buy different decisioning technologies from different vendors across their enterprise. They want SAS to deliver a decisioning framework that can work across their lines of business. To meet this growing market demand, Research and Development (R&D) Engineering is establishing a dedicated Decisioning division to scale our core decisioning capabilities.
This highly visible role will report to the Senior Vice President of Research and Development Engineering and interact with senior leaders and development teams across R&D and the company. We are looking for a leader to approach this role with new ideas, a sense of urgency, alignment to the CTO vision and most importantly the drive to succeed, with a proven ability to deliver.


What you’ll do

  • Develop strategic priorities for the group and the decisioning framework.
  • Create and reinforce a goal-oriented, collaborative culture amongst and across the business units.
  • Controls, plans, and directs the activities for a R&D division or multiple departments ensuring alignment with division and corporate goals.
  • Provides product direction leadership through collaboration with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customers, and others within and outside SAS.
  • Manage the heavily matrixed environment with a focus on collaboration and prioritization.
  • Create and support a culture that is focused on critical thinking; prioritize the development of business acumen and its applicability to help customers achieve business value.
  • Monitor and ensure products/projects adhere to established R&D practices, procedures and schedules.
  • Provide technical leadership as appropriate to the division/department.
  • Initiate and enable cross-divisional collaboration to improve overall effectiveness of the R&D organization.
  • Represent the company and provides product presentations within or outside the company.
  • Proactively identify and navigate potential issues in order to meet deadlines and schedules.
  • Ensure necessary change and support documentation.


What we’re looking for

  • You’re curious, passionate, authentic, and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
  • You have a bachelor’s degree.
  • 15+ years of related analytics experience.
  • 8+ years of experience managing technical staff at all levels.
  • Demonstrable success operationalizing analytics to drive decisioning in current or previous role.
  • Demonstrated success refining product requirements and leading an organization to develop and deliver products and tools that meet those requirements.
  • Demonstrated leadership, especially with a matrix environment and change agent skill set.
  • Ability to bring form and structure to the ambiguous
  • Extremely strong analytical, presentation, and communication skills.
  • Advanced abilities in business modeling.
  • Proven ability to interface, influence and manage with all levels of organization.


The nice to haves

  • Strong understanding of SAS products, tools, platform and infrastructure.

Other knowledge, skills, and abilities

  • A leader of strong intellect and personal presence who inspires confidence in people at all levels.
  • Self-directed; able to spearhead initiatives, translate plans into specific actions across a team, and execute with urgency.
  • High degree of leadership, independent negotiation and decision-making skills.
  • Entrepreneurial with a can-do / hands-on mentality.
  • Excellent listener who absorbs and respects the opinions of others but is decisive and able to influence.
  • A collaborative leader who empowers others.
  • One who is accountable and in turn, holds people accountable.
  • A change agent – leading the Team to the desired state through understanding.
  • A coach and developer of people.
  • Leads by example and can generate respect and loyalty from peers, superiors and subordinates, as well as external links.
  • Emotionally intelligent, resilient, and mature.
  • Impeccable ethics and a high-level of integrity.


Why SAS

  • We love living the #SASlife and believe that happy, healthy people have a passion for life, and bring that energy to work. No matter what your specialty or where you are in the world, your unique contributions will make a difference.
  • Our multi-dimensional culture blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Here, it isn’t about fitting into our culture, it’s about adding to it – and we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring.


This position will be seated out of SAS Headquarters in Cary, North Carolina

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SAS looks not only for the right skills, but also a fit to our core values. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique values that makes SAS such a great place to work. We look for the total candidate: technical skills, values fit, relationship skills, problem solvers, good communicators and, of course, innovators. Candidates must be ready to make an impact.


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 race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law. Also view the supplement EEO is the Law, and the notice Pay Transparency

Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant’s education, skills and experience. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.