UX Designer with SAS Product Experience

Job Type: Contract Job Category: IT Job Title: UX Designer with SAS Product Experience Location: Sunnyvale, CA (5x/week onsite) Duration: 6 months Must Have Skills: SAS Platform Experience (Critical) 7+ years of UX/Product Design experience Direct experience designing SAS products or SAS-based platforms (Viya, Studio, Model Manager, Visual Analytics, or similar) Strong working knowledge of: SAS analytics workflows SAS execution models (batch vs interactive) Model governance and deployment in SAS environments UX & Design Skills Expert in: Workflow and interaction design for complex systems Designing for expert users and enterprise scale Ability to reason deeply about system behavior, edge cases, and failure modes Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (Sketch) Strong emphasis on data visualization Experience modernizing legacy SAS UX or migrating SAS users to cloud-based workflows Key Responsibilities: SAS Platform UX Ownership Own UX design for SAS-based analytics workflows, including: SAS data access and preparation Model lifecycle management (training, validation, scoring, monitoring) Batch and interactive execution patterns Design experiences that work across web interfaces, APIs, and hybrid workflows SAS-Specific Workflow Design Translate SAS concepts (libraries, datasets, procs, caslibs, jobs, scoring code) into clear, user-centered interactions Design task-driven UX for: Configuring SAS jobs and pipelines Managing parameters, execution context, and compute resources Understanding job status, logs, errors, and outputs Reduce friction in traditionally complex SAS workflows without hiding essential system behavior Usability for Expert SAS Users Design primarily for expert and power users while preserving discoverability for new users Clearly surface system state, execution progress, failures, and dependencies Required Skills UX DESIGNER