Principal Product Manager – SAP

Vertexinc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Inc. is seeking an experienced senior product leader to own the product strategy and technical direction for an enterprise SAP-centric software portfolio.

You will oversee the full lifecycle from discovery to delivery, pricing, launch and enablement, while guiding trade-offs based on SAP architectures and cloud technologies. You will lead AI opportunities from inception to delivery and drive pricing, packaging and value propositions, aligning capabilities with customer value and market

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of product management experience leading enterprise software or SaaS portfolios.
• Knowledge of SAP architecture, integrations, BTP, APIs, and cloud technologies.
• Experience leading AI initiatives from opportunity identification to delivery in enterprise contexts.
• Hands-on pricing, packaging, and value proposition development.
• Strong communication translating market needs into product requirements and technical capabilities into customer value.
• Ability to drive cross-functional work across product, engineering, sales, consulting, marketing, and partner teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Set portfolio strategy and roadmap; translate customer and market needs into features, requirements, and backlog decisions.
• Work with engineering and program teams to guide delivery toward scalable solutions.
• Identify and lead AI opportunities from use case through requirements and delivery.
• Own pricing, packaging, and value propositions aligned with customer value and commercial strategy.
• Equip Sales, Consulting, Support, Product, and Marketing to explain capabilities, limitations, and roadmap direction.
• Engage in strategic customer and partner discussions, connecting capabilities to business needs and implementation considerations.

Skills

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/engineering/related field

MBA preferred

Tools

SAP BTP

SAP Integration Suite

Clean core

Extensibility

Job description

Role overview

Own product strategy and technical direction for an enterprise software portfolio built around SAP. This senior individual contributor role spans the full product lifecycle, from customer and market discovery through engineering delivery, pricing, launch, and internal enablement. It also calls for enough applied SAP knowledge to guide technical trade-offs and represent the product credibly with customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Set portfolio strategy and roadmap; turn customer and market needs into prioritized features, clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and backlog decisions.
• Work with engineering and program teams through delivery, guiding choices toward practical, scalable solutions.
• Identify and lead AI opportunities from initial use case through requirements, prioritization, and delivery.
• Own pricing, packaging, and value propositions, aligning product capabilities with customer value and commercial strategy.
• Equip sales, consulting, support, product, and marketing teams to explain capabilities, positioning, limitations, and roadmap direction.
• Engage in strategic customer and partner discussions, connecting technical capabilities to business needs and implementation considerations.

Requirements

• At least eight years of product management experience, including independent ownership of an enterprise software or SaaS portfolio across discovery, strategy, requirements, backlog, and delivery.
• Working knowledge of SAP architecture, integrations, BTP, APIs, and cloud technologies sufficient to assess trade-offs and influence engineering direction.
• Demonstrated ability to lead AI initiatives from opportunity identification through product delivery, ideally involving enterprise capabilities or workflows.
• Hands-on experience with pricing, packaging, and value proposition development.
• Strong communication skills to translate market needs into product requirements and technical capabilities into customer value.
• Ability to drive cross-functional work across product, engineering, sales, consulting, marketing, and partner teams without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience with SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, clean core, or extensibility approaches; familiarity with SAP Business AI or Joule.
• Experience with SAP customers or the partner ecosystem.
• A degree in business, engineering, or a related field; an MBA is preferred. Relevant equivalent experience is accepted.