Sr Director, SAS Documentation

Company: SAS Institute
Location: Cary
Posted on: January 16, 2020

Job Description:

OVERVIEW

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, SAS Documentation, you are a leader with expansive user documentation experience who is passionate about applying leadership and collaboration to the Documentation team to enabling our customers success. It is important we ensure dedicated focus on the evolution of documentation as we continue toward continuous release. This role will report to the Senior Vice President of Research and Development Engineering and will interact with senior leaders and development teams across Research and Development (R&D) and the company.



You're an excellent match if you have strong people management skills, have managed end-to-end creation of documentation, are a self-directed problem solver, an excellent communicator, and have managed a distributed team of writers. We are also 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

* Control, plan, and direct the activities for the group ensuring alignment with division and corporate goals.

* Oversee managers of writing departments in which technical writers and editor s research, plan, and develop documentation in multiple formats (online, hardcopy, web-based, etc.) for end-users.

* Take overall product management responsibility for end-user deliverables.

* Encourage and foster individual professional growth, teamwork, and communication among managers and Division staff.

* Oversee the collection of customer feedback on products for use in future planning and continuous product improvement.

* Work to continually develop more efficient ways of producing end-user documentation products, deliverables, processes, or other initiatives.

* Initiate and enable cross-divisional collaboration to improve overall effectiveness of the R&D organization.

* Keep current on relevant industry trends and standards as well as changing requirements and developments in the applicable product markets.



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.

* 10+ years of experience documenting software.

* Advanced knowledge and competence in writing principles and conventions and in the documentation process.

* Excellent knowledge of current industry trends in technical information delivery technologies and tools, as well as in instructional technology.

* Ability to balance end-user needs with business and corporate needs.

* Demonstrated success in developing and executing products and tools.

* Demonstrated leadership, especially a matrix environment and change agent skill sets.

* Ability to bring form and structure to the ambiguous.

* Extremely strong analytical, presentation, advanced abilities in business modeling and excellent communication skills.

* Proven ability to interface, influence and manage with all levels of organization.



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.



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.

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