SAP Project Manager jobs in the United States

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Our Business Unit:

SAP’s Business AI growth area brings together product development, marketing, go-to-market, and services teams into a dedicated end-to-end unit. In this set-up we focus on accelerating our AI foundation, scaling AI swiftly across our product portfolio, and driving customer adoption of SAP Business AI. In doing so, we collaborate closely with all teams across SAP. Our goal is to leverage the Generative AI momentum to make SAP #1 in Business AI and redefine business process software for the next 50 years.

Meet your team:

You will join the Joule team, which plays a pivotal role in today’s SAP’s Business AI Strategy. You will be working with the Digital Assistant team responsible for Joule development in the US. You will get to shape the vision for Joule, the one Digital Assistant at SAP, for both its end-users and the developers building capabilities for Joule as you will be involved with the Client and Compiler components of Joule. You will work with a global engineering team, and interact directly with talented product owners, architects, Ux designers, and engineers. Apply now and be a part of our dynamic and innovative team.

What you will do:

Here is an exciting opportunity for you to be a part of driving the development of SAP’s big rock investment Joule. Join our team and get a chance to shape SAP’s vision and future in a ‘true sense’. It is an opportunity to be part of the next big ride at SAP!

• As a Joule Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in shaping SAP’s vision and future by working on building a platform that provides natural language processing capabilities and integrates seamlessly with other SAP products, to enable the one unified digital assistant for SAP powered by LLMs.

• Software Development: you will support two development teams in all the phases of the software development lifecycle, coaching your colleagues, improving our Agile processes, and acting as Scrum Master for both component teams when needed.

• Delivery Management: you will own the delivery processes for our location, handling and improving standard releases, micro deliveries, and hotfix processes.

• Coordination: you will interface with our global engineering unit distributed over the US, France, Germany, and India. You will help the communication between the different groups including Product, Engineering, UX, Program Management, Release Management, and Infrastructure.

• Customer management: you will help solve issues and escalations from our internal stakeholders and external customers.

• Coaching and Mentoring: you will coach and mentor engineers in the areas of Agile development and delivery management.

What you bring:

• Proven experience as a Project Manager, preferably within a software engineering unit; Project Management Professional (PMP) or other relevant certifications are a plus.

• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and best practices, and a broad knowledge of software development.

• Proven experience in delivery management within a software engineering environment.

• Expertise on Agile development and SCRUM methodology using JIRA. Agile certifications are a strong plus.

• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.

• Technical fluency in Java, React, SAPUI5, Javascript, SAP BTP is a strong plus.

• Understanding of LLMs and AI concepts a plus.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Self-motivated and able to adapt to new tasks.

Education and Experience:

A Bachelor or Master’s degree in Information Technology (or related field), and a minimum of 10 years of experience in project management.

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Requisition ID: 392047 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid