Principal AI Productivity Product Manager

Principal AI Productivity Product Manager at SAP. Our culture emphasizes collaboration, learning and development, and a purpose-driven, future-focused work environment. We offer a collaborative team environment, recognition for individual contributions, and a variety of benefits.

About the team:

Process & Tooling Productivity Product Manager | SAP Application Foundation

The Application Foundation Team aims to improve efficiency across SAP and enable the Application and Service Teams to deliver value to customers at low cost. The Productivity team drives measurable improvements in engineering productivity by harmonizing internal platforms and streamlining processes, while adhering to product standards. The team works across domains including product standards, security, compliance, cost optimization, and reporting, managing both internally developed tools and externally adopted platforms. The work spans internal enablement and external product management, supporting the full lifecycle of tools used by engineering teams.

You will join a group responsible for defining, implementing and improving internal KPIs, establishing tooling and rolling out scalable, standardized processes across all of Application Foundation. The team leads initiatives to improve productivity through AI-driven solutions, streamlined execution tracking, and consistent adoption of tools and practices.

• Ability to evaluate, standardize, and support the rollout of internal and third-party tools that enhance developer productivity, ensuring alignment with engineering needs and business goals.
• Collaborate with teams across engineering, security, compliance, and infrastructure to define and implement scalable solutions that support product standards and operational excellence.
• Design and implement standardized processes across Application Foundation to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability in engineering practices.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to engineering productivity, tool adoption, and process efficiency. Make informed decisions based on data to shape strategy and measure impact.
• Lead the exploration and integration of Agentic AI and automation technologies to reduce manual effort, improve execution tracking, and enhance decision-making across engineering teams.
• Understand cloud costing as it directly impacts financial sustainability and strategic growth; monitor, analyze, and forecast cloud service costs.

• BA/BS/MA/MS/PhD in a business or a technical field of study from an accredited college or university
• Professional experience in a global enterprise software company
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new tools, focusing on easy and effective use for developers
• Demonstrated success in leading change management initiatives and adoption of new tools and practices
• Strong stakeholder management and effective communication skills across executive staff, sponsors and key constituents
• Strong people skills, driving and leading others to successful outcomes
• Proven track record of delivering internal and external features and projects with measurable outcomes
• Excellent English language skills, both oral and written

• Understanding of Agentic AI systems and their application in engineering workflows
• Ability to identify high-leverage AI use cases to augment/streamline internal repetitive tasks
• Understanding of security standards and experience leading cross-functional security initiatives including vulnerability management

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and gain business insight. SAP is a cloud company with over 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees. We are purpose-driven and future-focused with a collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. We help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone feels included and can run at their best. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations. If you need accommodation or assistance to navigate our website or complete your application, please email

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Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender or disability. A background verification may be required.

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

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