Contract AI Lead

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.

Meet the team:

Within SAP's Intelligent Contracting organization, this role is the business brain of the engineering team. You will be the product owner and business counterpart embedded in a development team building AI-powered contracting capabilities on top of SAP's landscape of tools for Contracting (e.g. Icertis). You connect what the business needs with what the team builds - owning requirements, shaping the backlog, and ensuring every sprint delivers real contracting value.

What you'll do:

Requirements & Backlog:

• Own and prioritize the product backlog for AI contracting features
• Translate business and legal stakeholder needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Make fast, informed decisions on scope and trade-offs during development.

Business-Tech Bridge:

• Serve as the primary interface between business stakeholders (Legal, Commercial) and the development team as well as neighboring IT teams
• Validate that implemented AI features reflect real contracting logic and legal intent.
• Work closely with legal content engineers to ensure AI outputs are grounded in business rules and contractual standards.

Product Discovery:

• Identify and prioritize use cases where AI creates measurable value in the contracting lifecycle.
• Run discovery workshops with legal and procurement users to surface pain points and opportunities.
• Evaluate AI model outputs and guide iterative improvement based on business feedback.

Delivery & Adoption:

• Support UAT, demos, and rollout of AI features to contracting stakeholders.
• Define and track success metrics - cycle time reduction, risk coverage, adoption rates.
• Contribute to change management and documentation for new AI capabilities.

What you bring:

Experience:

• 5+ years in contract management, legal or legal operations; business analyst and/or development background in addition are a plus.
• Experience working in or closely with software development teams (agile/scrum environment).
• Familiarity with contract lifecycle management platforms (Icertis experience a strong plus).

Skills:

• Confident writing user stories and acceptance criteria; ideally with SAFe or Scrum certification.
• Able to read and challenge technical designs without writing code.
• Strong grasp of contracting concepts: clause libraries, playbooks, risk frameworks, obligation management.
• Clear communicator — equally fluent with lawyers and engineers.

Mindset:

• Ownership mentality: you treat the backlog like your product, not a to-do list.
• Pragmatic - you know when good enough ships faster than perfect.
• Curious about AI and eager to learn what's possible, not just what's been done before.

Ideal Background

A strong candidate has come from one of these paths:

• Legal/contract operations professional who moved into product or delivery roles.
• Business analyst with deep CLM platform experience.
• Product owner in a legal tech or procurement tech context.

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Bring out your best
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Requisition ID: 449163 | Work Area: Solution and Product Management | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid