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Summary
This opening is an opportunity to join the Design System Team within the Platform Group of SAP Signavio. This team works as an engineering enabler, serving designers and developers which build our web app's frontends. The design system is the central artifact shipped by this team and considered a product of its own. It is meant to reduce time to market, guarantee common quality standards across all products and form a shared language amongst engineering roles.
Description
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Understand the problems the Design System is supposed to solve, the specific use cases for each type of user, and the underlying what motivates them as well as their pain points
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Identify, create, and document joint design system components as well as patterns by aligning with delivery teams in order to understand their needs and requirements.
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Work closely with Product Owners and Principal Design Lead to “define done” for projects, outline project needs / scope and negotiate timing to align with delivery team needs and pipeline backlog
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Maintain high quality standards and alignment with our design system, principles, and contribute to best practices
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Work comfortably and confidently in a self-organized team set-up
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Partner up with delivery teams and provide guidance on design system adoption in order to improve UX cohesion across our Suite products
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Participate in design critique sessions with other designers to further master the craft of design.
Requirements
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Extensive experience within cross-functional, agile software development teams – working as a Designer
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Previous experience with Design Systems: specifically creating, managing, consulting on, and evangelising other teams about the Design System
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Strong background in accessibility
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System Thinking
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Awareness / familiarity of SAP’s Design System (Fiori) is a bonus
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Great stakeholder management skills
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Able to work with a pattern library
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Detailed oriented. E.g.: when receiving feedback from teams -> noticing what is missing
Being part of a motivated team with flat hierarchies, you know the importance of communication and feedback. You are appreciated for your engagement, your constructive input and your relentless drive to improve yourself, the product and the company.
Meet Your Team
Building on the intelligent enterprise strategy, Business Process Intelligence (BPI) set out to support and accompany SAP customers in navigating through their digital transformation by helping them understand and improve their business processes.
The Platform Group is one of five groups in the engineering department of the SAP Signavio business unit. We value consistency, modularity & re-usability, as well as simplicity. We strive for a coherent user experience across the entire product suite and an effective & efficient cross-product development experience. To this effect, our teams provide and advance
1) the hub and framework of our product suite along with shared services, as well as
2) fundamental building blocks such as Cloud infrastructure.
We’re explicitly open to people that complement the Platform Team with their diverse background and add new perspectives to the team.
We build breakthroughs together
SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.
We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
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Requisition ID: 372853 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid