SVP, SAP SuccessFactors Engineering

SAP IT Business Systeme; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP SuccessFactors is seeking an engineering leader to accelerate Autonomous HCM, scale platform capabilities, and drive AI-powered transformation across HR, talent, and workforce planning. The role reports to the GM and CPO, shaping an ambitious engineering roadmap for a global customer base.

You will lead a 1,000+ strong global engineering organization, promoting ownership, technical excellence, and relentless customer focus while partnering across product and go-to-market teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 15+ years engineering leadership experience with global teams
• 5+ years leading large teams (500+ engineers) delivering AI-powered enterprise SaaS
• Proven track record of technology transitions toward AI-native architectures
• Deep knowledge of AI/ML, LLM-based agent frameworks, cloud infrastructure and enterprise data platforms
• Experience shipping AI-powered/AI-native enterprise products at scale from prototype to GA

Responsibilities

• Manage engineering budgets and resource allocation with rigor
• Own engineering strategy and execution for SAP SuccessFactors across HR, talent, learning, workforce planning and AI capabilities
• Lead and grow a global engineering organization of 1,000+ engineers
• Drive delivery of Autonomous HCM with AI agents that take action and connect data to outcomes
• Partner with CPO and product leadership to translate vision into concrete roadmaps
• Ensure SAP's enterprise data foundation powers new AI capabilities
• Drive high-velocity, high-quality delivery via AI-assisted development, CD, DevOps
• Transform engineering practices and operating models to stay at the leading edge
• Build and maintain SAP's platform extensibility and partner ecosystem
• Represent engineering leadership externally with customers, analysts, and partners

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI/ML expertise

Cloud infrastructure

SaaS product strategy

Roadmapping

Talent development

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree a plus

Job description

SAP SuccessFactors is the HCM system of record for some of the world's largest and most complex organizations. Our advantage is not just product breadth;it is the enterprise data foundation that underpins everything we build: workforce, financial, and operational data across every major industry, in 160 countries. No point solution can match it.

We are now at the most exciting inflection point in the company's history. Autonomous HCM is real, and it is with customers now. The engineering leader who takes this role will have the platform, the data, the team, and the mandate to build something that matters.

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

Organizations are navigating one of the most consequential workforce moments in a generation. AI is no longer a roadmap item;it is reshaping how companies manage their people, run their HR processes, and connect workforce decisions to business outcomes. SAP SuccessFactorsisat the center of that shift.

We are looking for an engineering leader who can make Autonomous HCM, already real and in customers' hands, faster, stronger, and ready to scale globally. This is the role that builds the platform where AI connects every person, insight, and action, across the full HCM portfolio, for the world's largest organizations, in 160 countries.

You will report directly to the GM and Chief Product Officer of SAP SuccessFactors and partner closely with product, design, and go-to-market leadership to define and execute the engineering strategy. This is not a role for someone who wants tomaintainthe status quo. It is a role for someone who wants to lead a once-in-a-decade technology transition.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Manage engineering budgets and resource allocation with rigor, balancing sustaining investment, AI innovation, and productdevelopment

Own the engineering strategy and execution for SAP SuccessFactors, including HR, talent, learning, workforce planning, employee experience, and the AI and agentic capabilities that run across all of them

Lead and grow a world-class global engineering organization of 1,000+ engineers, building a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and relentless customer focus

Drive the delivery of Autonomous HCM, with AI agents thatdon'tjust answer HR questions buttake action, orchestrate across business processes, connect people data to business outcomes,and provide best-in-class AI to solve business problems

Partner with the CPO and product leadership to translate the Autonomous HCM vision into a concrete engineering roadmap with clear priorities, milestones, and accountability

Ensure SAP's enterprise data foundation, the deepest in the industry, spanning workforce, financial, and operational data, powers a new generation of AI capabilities that no standalone point solution can replicate

Drive high-velocity, high-quality delivery through modern engineering practices: AI-assisted development, continuous delivery, DevOps, and rigorous operational excellence

Continuously transform engineering practices, operating models, and team capabilities so the organizationremainsat the leading edge of technology adoption

Build andmaintainSAP's platform extensibility and partner ecosystem, ensuring customers and system integrators can extend and configure solutions to their specific needs

Represent engineering leadership externally with customers, analysts, and partners, communicating the vision and progress of Autonomous HCM with clarity and conviction

Qualifications

WHAT YOU BRING

The right candidate brings together technical depth, business judgment, andpeopleleadership atscale.

15+ years of engineering leadership experience, including 5+ years leading large global teams (500+ engineers) delivering AI-powered / AI-native enterprise SaaS products

Proventrack recordof leading major technology transitions, ideally including a shift to AI-native or agentic product architectures, not just incremental improvement

Deep knowledge of modern AI/ML technologies, LLM-based agent frameworks, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise data platforms; strong enough to earn credibility with architects and senior engineers

Experience building and shipping AI-powered / AI-native enterprise products at scale, from early prototype through GA, EAC programs, and broad customer adoption

Strong product sensibility and the ability to partner with CPO-level leadership to shape roadmap, not just execute against it

Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, andretainexceptional engineering talent in a highly competitive market

Experience navigating large, matrixed organizations, managing cross-functional dependencies, influencing without authority, and building coalitions across SAP's global engineering community

Exceptional communicator andinfluencer, able to speak with clarity to engineers, customers, executives, and the press; comfortablerepresentingthe company externally

BS in Computer Science or a related technical field; advanced degree a plus

Ideal Location is Palo Alto, CA

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