Our Mission 

At Aras, we help our customers, leading global manufacturers, rapidly innovate their product offerings through our world’s top Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, Aras Innovator. In turn we also rapidly innovate on our product, offered through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription. We take pride in the fact that we give our customers the ability to adapt to changing business conditions by quickly developing and deploying solutions over and above our standard capabilities within Aras Innovator. 

We are looking for a talented, passionate product management leader to help us extend the capability of our SaaS offering by translating business requirements into service offerings, working with customers, partners, and the Aras go-to-market organization. This is a leadership, management, and hands-on product manager role, all rolled into one.

If you are adept at helping customers solve problems, have experience in Enterprise SaaS technology, and are looking for a chance to leverage that knowledge towards next-generation capability, we’d love to hear from you! You will work with our world-class engineering team to drive product development.

At Aras, you will contribute to an environment that thinks creatively, works efficiently, and leverages world-class technology.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the lead evangelist to drive the benefits of a SaaS model within Aras
• Manage a group of Product Managers and Product Owners focused on SaaS
• Define requirements for our SaaS offering in areas such as customer experience, automation of infrastructure, and telemetry
• Monitor the development, testing, certification, deployment and ongoing support of our SaaS offering, maintaining ownership throughout the product lifecycle
• Contribute your expertise to product documentation, training materials, and marketing collateral
• Meet with customers and partners to demonstrate new and future functionality, gather and document feedback, and strive for continuous product improvement
• Collaborate on product strategy and roadmap
• Travel to customers and conferences on an occasional basis
• Get things done, not just talk about them

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience building/shipping technical products 
• 15 years of progressively increasing product leadership experience
• 10 years in executive, managerial or people leadership capacities, or equivalent entrepreneurship roles.
• 5 years’ experience in developing/launching SaaS products/technologies working with cross-functional teams
• Experience with complex Enterprise Software application development and database technologies
• Knowledge of cloud providers and their offerings, especially Azure
• Understanding of legal, security and compliance aspects of SaaS
• Experience with Agile product development processes like SAFe
• Ability to manage projects across departments
• Ability to grasp complex technical topics
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills
• Experience with writing documents related to subjects like SLAs and entitlements
• Good organizational skills, with attention to detail and a desire to take charge, collaborate and innovate

Nice to Have

• Experience with migrating on-prem software applications to SaaS
• Experience working with PLM, CAD or ERP
• Experience with SRE or DevOps
• Experience with technical aspects of SaaS, such as containerization, orchestration, and microservices
• Experience developing low code modeling tools 

If you are located within 45 miles of the Andover, MA office you must be able to work a hybrid schedule. 
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