Product Management Expert

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SAP is defining the future of sovereign cloud infrastructure for public sector and highly regulated industries – with unparalleled security, flexibility, and scale. This is where innovation meets execution – and we are looking for a stellar Technical Product Manager to be part of our journey. As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you play a vital role in the Product Enablement team within SAP Sovereign Cloud. Your contributions to Sovereign Cloud will be pivotal in automating, scaling, and maintaining our cloud operations at an exemplary level. You will report into the head of the Product Enablement team.  

  

In this role, you will utilize your extensive network to enable HCM solutions to seamlessly fit into the Sovereign Cloud portfolio.  

  

• Your deep SuccessFactors product knowledge will allow you to gauge customer and SAP-internal stakeholders’ requirements against the existing product backlog.   

• You will refine requirements, clarify these with stakeholders and ensure they are ready for engineering.   

• Together with HCM product owner(s), you will understand the component-level details and dependencies; your deep technical background of the HCM architecture will help our HCM engineers to decompose requirements into small iteration cycles enabling continuous delivery.  

• Your excellent relationship into engineering and management of SuccessFactors will enable you to influence their product backlog ensuring Sovereign Cloud requirements are prioritized.   

• You will help to enable additional requirements (e.g. scratch-install automation, operations harmonization, security hardening) upstream into the HCM product team, relieving our own engineers from repetitive tasks.  

• Facilitate scrum agile development methodology by leading standups. 

• Review Test Automation framework enhancements and provide technical guidance.  

• Supporting and mentoring teams on Automation framework usage for Microservices validation. 

• Monitor the test Test data management for SuccessFactors products – to enable it for CI / CD across organization 

• Working knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes-based image creation for cloud products. 

• Participate in roadmap discussions. 

• Facilitate e2e feature enablement and testing initiatives. 

• Facilitate intake and maintenance of automation testing framework, and validation methodologies. 

• Work with regional operations teams to ensure smooth implementation of customers and datacenters by providing support across multiple cloud providers. 

 

Requirements:  

• Citizenship in an EU, NATO, or Five Eyes nation 

• Experience managing global teams 

• Excellent network into HCM engineering and management  

• Deep technical knowledge about HCM components and dependencies  

• Technical knowledge of the SAP ecosystem base products such as BTP and Gardener  

• Ability to work in a matrixed environment and influence without authority  

• Strong methodological and conceptual skills paired with analytical thinking  

• 10 years+ similar, relevant technical and HCM work