Senior User Experience Design Specialist

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:

Because user experience is of vital importance to the success of all SAP products, SAP constantly evaluates and improves its products to ensure that SAP users get the best user experience possible. User Experience at SAP covers all activities from conception and design of future SAP products to maintenance and improvements of existing applications.

Expectations and Tasks

• You are a strong interaction designer with empathy for the end user
• You feel responsible for your work and accompany your designs throughout the design driven development process
• Gathering end-user requirements by organizing, executing, and moderating end-user site visits, focus groups and user days including collection and synthesis of results.
• Development of user interface designs using various prototyping techniques and documented in UI specifications
• Verification of designs through reviews, validations and formal usability testing with end users
• You have a good technical understanding (preferably in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript) to discuss design alternatives and solutions with developers
• You are offering design support and consulting for the development teams

What you bring:

• University degree in Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction or comparable fields is required
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in Interaction Design
• Demonstrated ability to design complex experiences for web applications and mobile solutions for enterprise platforms
• Strong in interaction design, identifying user stories, creating user flows and low-to-high fidelity designs
• Experience in a fast-paced software development environment with an ability to execute against aggressive timelines
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively engage and convey ideas to cross-functional technical and non-technical teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Creative and analytical thinking is required
• Demonstrated ability to learn complex technology.
• Must be a solid team player in international teams with good writing, presentation and time management skills.

Meet your team:

As a User Experience Designer in SAP S/4HANA Cloud you work together with a highly motivated and creative team of international interaction designers, user researchers and visual designers. Your team is responsible to drive all application design activities for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. You will closely collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering to enable users to do their business in the most effective and efficient manner.

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:

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.

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.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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