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. 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. Provide subject matter expertise to various areas in the procurement products 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 :   12+ years of experience in user experience design preferably with B2B and/or large-scale rich internet applications and products.  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. All candidates must provide a link to their online portfolio. 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.  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. ​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: 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. 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: 423941  | Work Area: Software-User Experience  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.