Development Manager - Adoption & Collaboration (m/f/d)

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.

What You'll Do

As Engineering Manager for Team Phoenix at SAP LeanIX, you will be accountable for leading a cross-functional product engineering team delivering multiple customer-facing products. You will drive execution, foster team growth and well-being, and ensure your team consistently ships high-quality software.

Your responsibilities span delivery, people, and product:

• Lead delivery with ownership — Oversee the end-to-end execution of product initiatives, including the ground-up rebuild of our Survey product with AI-native functionality. You set the standard for quality, velocity, engineering excellence, and an AI-first way of building things without micromanaging.
• Enable your team's autonomy — You know when to step back and trust your engineers to figure things out, and when to step in and provide clear direction. Your team consists of experienced senior and staff engineers.
• Partner with Product Management and UX — Work closely with your Product Manager and UX to shape scope, challenge assumptions, and ensure the team is building the right things following best practices.
• Develop people — Coach and grow a diverse, multicultural team. Deliver timely, specific feedback. Run effective 1:1s. Support individual career development, recognize achievements proactively, evolve team processes, and create space for team members to bring new ideas and grow as contributors.
• Engage technically — Maintain a senior-level skillset in software engineering by contributing to software development without becoming a bottleneck for delivery. You participate meaningfully in architecture and design discussions and are a credible peer to your staff and senior engineers.
• Drive cross-team alignment — Collaborate with peer Engineering Managers, Tribe leadership, and stakeholders across LeanIX and SAP to align on priorities and remove blockers.

What You Bring:

Must-haves:

• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager leading product engineering teams
• Senior-level engineering background — you can engage confidently in technical conversations with senior and staff engineers
• Hands-on experience with Kotlin, Spring Boot, TypeScript, and Angular — you understand the stack your team works in
• Track record of delivering user-facing SaaS products end-to-end
• Proven ability to work with and guide product managers — not just receive requirements, but actively shape product thinking
• Servant leadership mindset — you create the conditions for your team to do their best work, while maintaining accountability and strategic clarity, and have demonstrated ability to make decisions efficiently
• Experience leading multicultural and geographically diverse teams
• Excellent written and spoken English — you communicate clearly and precisely across all levels of the organization
• Experience building AI/LLM-integrated products

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in enterprise software or B2B SaaS
• German language skills

Meet Your Team

Team Phoenix is part of SAP LeanIX — the leading Enterprise Architecture Management platform. We build software that helps large organizations understand, manage, and evolve their technology landscape.

Your team is a diverse, multicultural group of engineers with a strong ownership culture. We are currently rebuilding our Survey product from the ground up with AI-native capabilities — a greenfield opportunity to set the bar for how LeanIX approaches AI-powered product development. Beyond Survey, Team Phoenix owns Self-Service Portals and the LeanIX App for Microsoft Teams, serving customers across the globe.

Our tech stack: Kotlin · Spring Boot · TypeScript · Angular · PostgreSQL

You will report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate closely with the Product Manager of the team, design, and peer engineering teams across LeanIX.

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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. 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. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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Requisition ID: 450701 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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