Principle User Experience Design Expert

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**Principal User Experience Designer**:
We are SAP’s Procurement UX Team, part of the Business Suite, Finance & Spend Management organization. Our organizational goal is to deliver procurement products that meet our customers’ needs and expectations. The UX team is a globally distributed team based in US, India, and Europe. Our team’s goal is to bring consumer-like ease to large-scale enterprise products. We are a team of passionate UX colleagues who aims are passionate about delighting users with meaningful user experience and reducing complexity.

Our UX team in Pune is looking for a rock star Principal User Experience Designer.

**Summary & Role Information**:
The Principal User Experience Designer should have a strong design leadership mindset with compelling hands-on design skills and experience in presenting to and managing relationships with stakeholders and their adjacencies on a variety of efforts that support both the business and user experiences throughout the product suite. Duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

- Define and drive a comprehensive storyboard that outlines how all Procurement products come together
- Focus on personas, mental models, information architecture, product integrations and cross product workflows, to provide a holistic perspective of Procurement products
- Work closely with Product Management, Engineering and User Experience teams to evangelize and drive a comprehensive UX design process
- Collaborate with SAP Design on key initiatives.
- Lead one or more strategic design initiatives
- Provide mentorship and guidance to designers on the team
- Actively contribute to product brainstorming and design sessions.

**Experience / Role Requirements**:

- Deep understanding of user qualitative and quantitative experience research methodologies.
- Strong evangelization skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to listen and articulate positions.
- Experience working with development and product owners to redefine prior existing products.
- (preferred) Previous experience working on solutions in supply chain, finance, sales, marketing, or commerce.
- Experience working with Agile/Lean UX methodologies.

**About the Team**:
We are SAP’s Procurement UX Team, part of the Business Suite, Finance & Spend Management organization. Our organizational goal is to deliver procurement products that meet our customers’ needs and expectations. The UX team is a globally distributed team based in US, India, and Europe. Our team’s goal is to bring consumer-like ease to large-scale enterprise products. We are a team of passionate UX colleagues who aims are passionate about delighting users with meaningful user experience and reducing complexity.

**About SAP**

With the largest global supply network in the world, Ariba is the market leader in collaborative business commerce, providing a web-based trading community to help companies discover, connect, and collaborate with a global network of partners. More than 500,000 companies around the world, in every industry, use Ariba’s cloud-based solutions to manage their commerce activities - procurement, sourcing, supply, reconciliation, contracts, invoices, and more.

The goal of our UX team is to bring consumer-like ease to large-scale Enterprise products. If you are passionate about technology and how people use it, have a knack for simplifying the complex, and love working with developers in an agile process, then this is the place for you.

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**EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability**:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID: 423941 | Work Area