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SAP • Garching, DE

User Experience Designer (f/m/d) Senior / Expert

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Job Description

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.


What you’ll do:

As a (Senior / Expert) UX Designer (f/m/d) in the SAP Build Product Suite team, you wil

  • Drive Holistic, User-Centric Product Design: Lead the end-to-end design process for complex features and cross-cutting initiatives. Balance user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints to craft intuitive, elegant experiences that scale and align with the product’s UX vision
  • Shape Product and Design Strategy: Act as a strategic partner to product and engineering leadership. Bring a strong user perspective to planning, proactively identifying opportunities to improve experience quality, consistency, and cohesion across the product suite
  • Influence Across Teams: Mentor and empower other designers through feedback, design reviews, and knowledge sharing. Champion design excellence beyond your immediate team by shaping guidelines, fostering alignment, and upskilling peers across the UX, product and engineering communities.
  • Leverage Research and Data at Scale: Regularly engage with users, customers and partners during design iterations, usability testing and events. Collaborate closely with researchers and analysts to interpret qualitative and quantitative data. Use insights to drive design decisions that demonstrably improve usability, engagement, and user outcomes
  • Elevate Quality and Accessibility: Aim to eliminate design and UX debt in all stages of your work. Uphold SAP’s high standards for accessibility, visual consistency, and usability across our multiple products and design system
  • Lead Through Influence and Vision: Represent UX in cross-organizational discussions. Advocate for the value of user-centered design in achieving business success, and articulate design rationale effectively to executives and non-design audiences

What you bring:

  • At least 8 years of demonstrated success designing and delivering complex software, preferably in the ERP and AI domain, with a deep expertise in interaction design and end-to-end user experience strategy
  • Advanced design and prototyping skills that consistently deliver elegant, scalable, and user-centered solutions across product areas
  • Excellent strategic thinking and communication skills, with a proven track record of influencing product direction, facilitating cross-functional alignment, and mentoring other designers toward growth and excellence
  • Experience leading mixed-method user research efforts, including AI, synthesizing complex data into actionable insights, and integrating them into iterative, evidence-based design processes
  • Mastery of design tools such as Figma, expertise in evolving and contributing to design systems, and fluency in collaborating with engineering teams to ensure feasibility and execution
  • A strong leadership presence rooted in user advocacy, creative problem-solving, and a commitment to advancing design maturity and inclusive, accessible experiences
  • Fluency in spoken and written English

Meet your team:

Join a passionate, multinational group of UX enthusiasts in defining SAP’s next generation products for app development and process automation. We value collaboration, creativity, and a user-first approach in everything we do. Let’s improve the world of business software together!

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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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.

Requisition ID: 427326 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Company benefits

25 (UK) 30 (Germany) 21 (India) days annual leave + bank holidays
Accrued annual leave – 1 day/year up to 30 days (UK)
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Adoption leave – Up to 52 weeks (UK)
Open to part time work for some roles
Returnship
Equity packages
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Fertility benefits
Pregnancy support
On-site childcare
Share options
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Gym membership
Dental coverage
Health insurance
Private GP service
Mental health platform access
Life assurance
Life insurance
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced paternity leave
Travel insurance
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Bike parking
Enhanced sick pay
Emergency leave
Enhanced sick days
Company car
Open to part-time employees
Work from anywhere scheme
Childcare credits
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Carer’s leave
Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
Family health insurance
Women’s health leave
Annual bonus
401K
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Employee discounts
Loyalty programme
Non-contributory pension
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
L&D budget
Language lessons
LinkedIn learning license
Study support
Studying sabbaticals
Lunch and learns
In house training
Hackathons
Professional subscriptions
Further education support

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