Visual Design Lead / Expert (f/m/d) - Web Design System

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

SAP Design is seeking a passionate and experienced Visual Design Lead/Expert (f/m/d) to join our Web Design System team and help drive the evolution of the SAP Design System. In this role, you will spearhead visual design initiatives, mentor junior designers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, high-quality user interfaces across all SAP platforms. Your expertise in design language, design tokens, and system scalability will be instrumental in creating a cohesive and future-ready user experience.

• Ensure a consistent and high-quality visual language for SAP’s design system across all platforms
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to integrate the design system into the product lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business goals
• Provide leadership and mentorship to junior designers, nurturing their professional growth
• Build relationships and work closely with SAP’s UX community to scale effective designs across the organization
• Stay current with design trends, tools, and technologies to enhance the design system and identify opportunities for innovation
• Maintain and evolve design specifications, guidelines, and tokens, ensuring alignment with accessibility, usability, and branding

What you bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in a design field (e.g., Visual, Graphic, Interface, Industrial, Media)
• 6+ years leading visual design projects for enterprise software ideally in a global setting
• A stunning portfolio showcasing diverse, high-impact designs
• Proven expertise in creating scalable design languages aligned with accessibility, usability, and branding
• Hands-on experience building robust design systems (components, tokens, documentation)
• Skilled at guiding projects end-to-end, mentoring junior talent, and collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Proficient in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and other industry-standard tools
• Very good English skills, German skills are beneficial

Meet your team

Join the SAP Web Design System team, a diverse group of around 30 members within SAP’s central design organization. We shape and evolve the SAP Web Design System and Design Language, powering all web-based SAP products.

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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 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: 420274 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time or Part Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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