VP of Product - Enterprise Agentic Compliance

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 build

As VP of Product – Enterprise Agentic Compliance you will shape SAP’s AI-first product direction and drive delivery of trusted, enterprise-ready agent-powered capabilities, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable adoption across customers and portfolios.

• Define and own the end-to-end product strategy and multi-year roadmap for AI capabilities, including agentic experiences, developer-facing AI services, and platform integrations
• Translate customer problems into measurable outcomes, success metrics, and launch strategies, driving discovery, validation, and iteration based on real usage signals
• Own product accountability for enterprise readiness, including release quality, compliance, security, and operational performance
• Partner with engineering, architecture, and security to deliver production-grade solutions with built-in guardrails for privacy, safety, and regulatory compliance
• Drive cross-organizational alignment on priorities and trade-offs (time-to-market, cost, reliability, and security), ensuring disciplined execution and predictable delivery
• Establish product standards for evaluation (quality, hallucination risk, regression testing), release readiness, and continuous improvement through LLM/ML Ops practices
• Define and oversee rollout strategies, ensuring safe deployment, monitoring, and iteration of AI capabilities in production environments
• Represent the product area in executive forums, translating AI constraints, risks, and trade-offs into clear decisions and actionable narratives

What you bring

You are a product leader operating at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise-scale delivery, with a strong focus on building trusted, compliant, and production-ready AI products.

• 15+ years in product management or strategy for enterprise software or platforms, including 7+ years in senior product leadership roles
• Deep expertise in AI products, including large language models, agentic runtimes, and tool-using agents, with strong product judgment across user and developer workflows
• Hands-on experience with LLM/ML Ops, including evaluation, monitoring, safe rollout/rollback, and cost management
• Strong foundation in AI security and trust, including prompt-injection defenses, privacy, access control, and auditability
• Proven ability to drive cross-organizational alignment and delivery without direct authority
• Data-driven decision-maker with a strong bias for outcomes, quality, and customer adoption
• Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and translate complexity into clear direction

Where you belong

As VP of Product – Enterprise Agentic Compliance, you will join a global, inclusive team where product, engineering, and architecture collaborate closely—empowering you to own outcomes, build trusted AI at scale, and lead with impact across SAP’s portfolio.

*This role is open to candidates local to Palo Alto, CA & Bellevue, WA

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.

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.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 274300-609200USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

We are ethical and compliant
Our leadership credo: Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 451055 | Work Area: Solution and Product Management | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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