What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Head of SAP Commerce Cloud - Product & Engineering position at SAP SE?

Global Head of SAP Commerce Cloud - Product & Engineering

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. 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.

Location : North America or Germany preferred; other locations will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

We are seeking a highly experienced and dynamic leader to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of SAP Commerce Cloud as part of our global Product & Engineering organization. This role will oversee product management, engineering, and architecture while collaborating closely with UX, Cloud Operations, Security, as well as Marketing, Go-to-Market, and Services and Support organizations, ensuring SAP Commerce Cloud remains the leader in digital commerce for enterprises while driving modernization, innovation, and velocity to capture market traction. This is a global role, leading distributed teams across multiple geographies.

Key Responsibilities :

Strategy & Vision : Define and execute the SAP Commerce Cloud strategy, aligning with overall company objectives, industry trends, and customer needs. Champion modernization efforts, including cloud-native services, AI-driven commerce, and headless architectures.
Product & Engineering Execution : Drive roadmap execution with a strong focus on delivering high-quality, scalable, and reliable commerce solutions. Ensure engineering excellence, platform modernization, and velocity of delivery to stay ahead of market demands.
Customer & Market Engagement : Partner with enterprise customers, analysts, and industry stakeholders to shape the future of SAP Commerce Cloud. Drive adoption and retention through continuous product innovation and market differentiation.
Go-to-Market Leadership : Work closely with sales, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure strong product-market fit, compelling messaging, and effective enablement of field teams and partners.
Team Leadership & Talent Development : Lead a globally distributed organization, fostering a high-performance culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration across product management, engineering, and operations.
Ecosystem & Integration : Enhance the role of SAP Commerce Cloud within the broader SAP Customer Experience (CX) portfolio, ensuring seamless integration with Marketing, Sales, Service, and Data Cloud solutions.
Operational Excellence & Business Impact : Continuously optimize processes, improve execution efficiency, and ensure business KPIs, such as revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and market share, are met.

Key Qualifications :

Proven track record of leading global product and engineering organizations in enterprise SaaS, cloud commerce, or related domains.

Deep understanding of the commerce market, including B2B, B2C, and marketplace models, and emerging trends such as composable commerce and AI-driven personalization.

Strong technical acumen in cloud-native architectures, API-first commerce, and scalable multi-tenant platforms.

Demonstrated ability to drive strategy, execution, and go-to-market collaboration to accelerate product traction and customer adoption.

Experience working with enterprise customers, understanding their needs, and translating them into actionable product and engineering priorities.

Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience managing distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.

Ability to navigate complex organizational environments, influencing and aligning stakeholders across product, sales, marketing, and engineering.

Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to engage C-level executives, analysts, and industry leaders.

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.

We are ethical and compliant

Our leadership credo : Do what's right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP's values and shape SAP's culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders.

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.

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.

Compensation Range Transparency

SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 370400 - 629700 (USD). The actual amount offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance.

Nearest Major Market : San Jose

Nearest Secondary Market : Palo Alto

Job Segment : Cloud, ERP, SAP, Product Manager, Technology, Marketing, Operations

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