Senior Design Project Manager maternity leave replacement

Job description

**We help the world run better**
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you.

We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next.

The work is challenging – but it matters.

You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong.

What's in it for you?

Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

We are seeking a Senior Design Program/Project Manager to join our SAP Design System team with a focus on maintaining design project momentum, processes, and fostering a creative environment for cross-functional teams.

Reporting to the Head of Product & Project managers team, the Senior Design Program/Project Manager plays a key role in collaborative strategic problem solving, holistic systems thinking, and efficiency.

The Senior Design Program/Project Manager will have a wide reach across several Design System teams, spearheading end-to-end design roadmap definition, execution, and delivery within SDLC parameters.

Helping people work better is core to our business.

As such, this role requires a candidate to be a master of stakeholder engagement, issue resolution, and design championing.

The right person in this role will be a catalyst for continuous improvement, an empathetic connector, and action-biased - thriving in a culture of ownership and creative solutions, resulting in maintaining alignment with overall objectives.

**WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:**

+ You are a strong strategic thinker with extensive experience improving processes and shaping solutions in ambiguous environments.
+ You are highly motivated, results-oriented, and user-focused, with a proven record of successfully handling multiple projects in fast-paced environments.
+ You have comprehensive knowledge of product development and design processes, including how to manage design roadmaps, milestones, and delivery.
+ You are highly organized with creative ways to bring definition and alignment.
+ You manage multiple priorities and deadlines with context-switching between projects without missing a beat.
+ You are a keen relationship builder at all levels of the organization, across many different technical, business, operational, design, and other roles to bring the right groups into alignment in order to drive successful outcomes.
+ You are a self-starter with passion and expertise for leveraging available resources to establish standards and processes that support cross-functional teams and continuously seek improvement.

**JOB DESCRIPTION:**

+ Partner closely with design leaders and design teams throughout the design lifecycle with a focus on managing priorities, resolving issues, and fostering collaboration.
+ Manage risks proactively, anticipate potential issues, implement appropriate mitigations, and remove blockers or escalate accordingly.
+ Apply in-depth knowledge and understanding of project management concepts, methodologies, and tools and wield them to support cross-functional teams.
+ Expertise analyzing and aggregating project and program-level metrics into executive-level dashboards and/or status reports.
+ Ability to prioritize and lead prioritization of work with minimum direction in a complex and diverse environment with rapidly changing priorities.
+ Leverage design knowledge to collaborate with stakeholders to define, plan, and design the appropriate end-to-end experiences and solutions to achieve design & product desired outcomes.
+ Apply and promote best practices for HCD and project management.
+ Experience delivering multiple parallel releases across a complex landscape in which several product teams are building product features and managing designs.
+ Optimize the operations of design teams, including capacity planning, scrum ceremonies, agile approaches, and Jira management.
+ Other duties as assigned or requested.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:**

+ 6 years’ experience in Program/Project Management in Design/Product fields.
+ 5 years’ experience in Agile Project Management frameworks.
+ Experience working with Design teams.
+ Passion for process, innovation, and experience operationalizing scalable solutions.
+ PMP, CAPM, CSM, SAFe a plus.
+ SDLC a plus.

**Contract type:**

+ For this role, we are offering a fixed term limited contract for a maternity leave replacement.

**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 world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

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Requisition ID: 438712 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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