User Experience Design Manager

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do

As a User Experience Design Manager in Cloud ERP, you are leading a motivated team of interaction designers with a strong focus on Digital Supply Chain. Your main task is people and team development. That includes hiring the best designers with focus on early talent, diversity and inclusion. You foster strong connections and good communication in our team and build on our existing team spirit. 
You identify learning and development needs for your team members. You support your employees individually and help them to achieve their goals. You know the strength of your team members and unlock their potential. 
In your role as line manager, you contribute significantly to strengthen the collaboration with PM and Engineering. You are involved in stakeholder management as well as strategic positioning of UX.

What you bring

• You are a strong team player. Besides your wish to lead and grow a team of experienced designers and early talents, you want to increase the influence of user experience in your product area.

• You can provide a proven track of successful design projects for business applications, where your empathy for the end users is omnipresent. 

• 10+ years working experience in UX

• Leading teams as a line manager or equivalent experience (e.g. as design lead)

• Good knowledge of business processes and end user roles in at least one of the  Digital Supply Chain business areas (e.g. PLM, Manufacturing, Planning, Logistics, Asset Management) is a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Meet your team
You work in an international team with highly motivated and creative interaction designers and user researchers. Besides UX, you work very closely with product management and engineering colleagues. Your team is mostly responsible for providing best in class User Experience for SAP’s Digital Supply Chain suit of solutions, very well integrated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

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​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best.

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.
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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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 410236  | Work Area: Software-User Experience  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Management  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.