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What you'll do:
The User Experience Design Manager will shape an innovative design mission, based on user experience and needs. They will drive design standardization and spread design by creating a common language and set of practices across the portfolio of SBN and lead a growing a team of designers.
Specific responsibilities for the User Experience Design Manager include:
- Optimize interfaces across multiple products in ways that amplify the effectiveness of the systems as well as the SAP brand.
- Ensure that SAP products deliver the best possible experience to the user in ways that are both delightful and engaging.
- Consolidate and implement user research, competitive analysis, concept development and evaluation, workflow, navigation, user interface, visual design, and user feedback from expert reviews, usability tests, and other methods.
- Develop, deliver, and maintain resources (technology, tools, methods) to align on design standards.
- Be an innovator leveraging the latest technology, including Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and others into the Design strategy.
- Support the BN Design Lead and be part of the BN Design Leadership team.
- Support product teams to translate user requirements into powerful Cloud solutions.
- Manage/Build a cohesive, collaborative team with a unified mission, standard methodology, and high standards for world class design and usability.
- Recruit and hire experts in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design, as needed.
What you bring:
The Design Manager will bring a successful track record of leading a team of Design colleagues with a comparable scale, complexity, and global reach. This person will bring knowledge and experience in best-in-class User Experience and Design, as well as next generation technology innovation. The User Experience Manager should have a strong Creative and Design DNA and an entrepreneurial, hands-on, and can-do attitude. It is important that this person can quickly establish credibility and trust with key SAP stakeholders. The successful candidate will be able to build relationships with colleagues from different cultures and throughout the organization in an engaging and authentic manner.
The User Experience Manager will bring the following experience and attributes:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in a relevant field.
- 15+ years of relevant experience.
- Comes from Cloud/SaaS/PaaS and/or Digital enterprises; is used to working in high growth and fast-paced technology firms.
- Software/Cloud ERP provider background.
- Successfully led the Design functions including visual design, user experience and interaction, information architecture, design research, data and analysis and experience managing and developing a high-performing global Design/UX team.
- Track record of design excellence and bringing high quality products to market.
- Strong reputation in the Design community and network.
- High EQ; demonstrates empathy and highest level of social competence.
- Reputation as a trusted partner and mentor.
- Impeccable professional and personal ethics and integrity; vigilant when it comes to regulatory and compliance matters.
- Ability to learn and change.
- High curiosity.
- Comfortable in ambiguity and able to solve problems through building effective relationships across the organization.
Meet your team:
SAP’s Intelligent Spend and Business Network (ISBN) provides a comprehensive set of solutions for our customers to better navigate spend management decisions. Across Procurement, Travel & Expense, and the SAP Business Network, we are leaders in each category today but have the opportunity to further strengthen and grow our solutions.
As a key member of the BN Design leadership community at SAP, SAP is seeking a visionary Design and User Experience Manager, who will drive the strategy and execution of a cohesive design and best-in-class user experience across the SBN product portfolio and report to BN Design Leader.
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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.
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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
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
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Requisition ID: 377101 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.