Chief Product Manager in Cloud ERP Private For AI

Chief Product Manager in Cloud ERP Private for AI

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Cloud ERP Private Product Management

The Role

You will be a senior authority for AI in Cloud ERP Private, setting vision, architecture, and execution for how we infuse trustworthy, high impact AI into our products and operations. You will combine hands-on technical depth with executive influence to shape strategy, cultivate an ecosystem of partners, and deliver production-grade AI capabilities that measurably improve customer outcomes and business performance. Specifically:

• Serve as the Chief Expert for AI across Cloud ERP Private, advising senior leadership and steering cross portfolio decisions.
• Define, socialize, and execute the multi year AI strategy and roadmap, including platform, product, and operational workstreams.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize high value AI use cases end to end (business value, feasibility, risk, and time to impact), and drive them from concept to scaled adoption.
• Evolve the AI operating model, including intake and portfolio governance, architectural standards, playbooks, evaluation frameworks, and SDLC/MLOps integration.
• Lead strategic evaluation and selection of third party foundation models, cloud AI services, and open source components; negotiate and manage long term partnerships and licensing.
• Provide technical leadership for LLMs and agentic systems (prompting, fine tuning, tool use, RAG, guardrails, observability, cost/perf optimization)
• Act as an expert on demand for our high performing team of AI Experts and AI Developers; establish communities of practice and enablement programs across engineering and product.
• Drive thought leadership in enterprise agentic AI through patents, open source contributions, conference talks, and publications.
• Establish and enforce responsible AI governance: policies, risk management, privacy, security, safety, model evaluation, and audit readiness in alignment with global regulations.
• Lead AI change management and enablement for product, engineering, services, and go to market teams; create training, playbooks, and adoption programs for customers and partners.
• Partner with Product Marketing and Customer Success to define value hypotheses, success metrics, packaging, and commercial models for AI capabilities.
• Represent Cloud ERP Private in executive forums, customer briefings, standards bodies, and the broader AI ecosystem.

Role Requirements and Work Experience

• In-depth knowledge of SAP s AI portfolio
• Change Management & Customer Success: Proven success in guiding organizations through impactful digital transformations and leading change management initiatives to support adoption.
• Cross Industry Expertise / Exposure: cross industry expertise with a deep knowledge in at least one industry.
• Proven competencies and strong domain background in the areas of Cloud ERP software
• Excellent analytical skills combined with proven experience in working on complex topics.
• Strong communication skills with the customers, partners and executive level stakeholders, internal functions like engineering, user experience and product marketing.
• Very good teamplayer, good networking skills and driver mentalit with strong business acumen and outcome-driven mindset.
• Passion for technology, innovation, and user-centric product development, with demonstrable success in previous positions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (C1 Level) in English is a must.
• 15+ years relevant work experience in software industry preferably in Product Management, Product Engineering or Product Marketing
• Master s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA or PhD degree is a plus.

What We Offer

This role provides a unique opportunity to shape SAP s global AI strategy

You will:

• Impact SAP s Future: Work with our largest and most influential customers to transformative projects that define SAP s strategy and drive customer success.
• Collaborate with Industry Leaders: Work alongside global teams, SAP executives, and strategic customers on high-value transformations in the field of Data & Analytics.
• Career Growth Opportunities: Enjoy a clear path to advancement with opportunities for specialization or leadership within SAP s ecosystem.
• Collaboration with product engineering and delivery experts across SAP.
• Professional development opportunities and flexible working models.