(Senior) Strategic Designer (f/m/d)

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 we offer

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. Apply now!

What you’ll do

• Lead strategic design initiatives for the Modeling and Governance group.
• Work on early design concepts and strategically relevant product and value prop evolutions.
• Closely collaborate with designers, product management, and engineering.
• Initiate, drive, and create buy-in for future concepts and directions that are in line with customer- and user needs, product- and company vision and strategy.
• Manage the evaluation of conditions and situations presented by the software, competitive reviews, and stakeholders to determine recommended paths toward possible solutions and in the case of existing software, evaluate usability and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with UX researchers to facilitate larger-scale strategic research projects.
• Ensure high quality standards and alignment with our design system and UX principles.
• Regularly sync design and contribution-level efforts with stakeholders for transparency and alignment with big-picture initiatives.
• Facilitate compelling workshops with small and large groups – planning activities, drawing out insights, and engaging participants.

What you bring

• Previous experience within agile software development teams and proven goal-oriented mindset.
• Background in B2B / Enterprise tool design / research.
• Familiarity with popular software tools for user experience / design: Figma, Material Design standards, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience working with design systems, components, and helping develop the system over time.
• Experience in leading, mentoring, and coaching designers and stakeholders.
• Thorough knowledge of UX methodologies & artefacts (wireframes, personas, flows).
• Experience with or knowledge of when and where to use different UX research and validation approaches to ensure decisions are validated before engineering hand-off.
• Experience in creating, communicating, and enabling execution of UX strategy.
• In-depth analytical skills, structured and data-driven working approach, and good interpersonal skills.
• Top-notch design skills and the ability to take a project from concept to production.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including an ability to manage and negotiate expectations for timelines and scope.
• A proactive self-starting attitude, comfortable with aligning with all types of stakeholders.
• Ability to manage up and down in the organization, make decisions and work transparently.

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 User & Product Insights team is part of the Research and Innovation group positioned in the design department to run UX Research and Strategic Design initiatives across the BPI product portfolio. We are well connected with all teams to work collaboratively and reduce silos.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. 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. 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. 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.

Requisition ID: 423354 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid