User Experience Design Manager

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Meet your team:
We are SAP 's Procurement UX Team, part of the ISBN organization. Our organizational goal is to deliver procurement products that meet our customers ' needs and expectations. The UX team is globally distributed and based in Palo Alto, Bengaluru, Europe, and Brazil. Our team 's goal is to bring consumer:like ease to large:scale enterprise products. We are a team of passionate UX colleagues who are passionate about delighting users with meaningful user experiences and reducing complexity.
What youll do:
The Manager, User Experience should have a unique combination of creative and leadership skills, to be successful in this role. They will be responsible for delivering UX designs for several applications in the Procurement Area. Duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:
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Manage and grow a UX Design team based in Bangalore
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Manage, coach and mentor a team of seasoned and new UX designers
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Work with Product Management to understand priorities and roadmap
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Work with Program Management to share schedules, track dependencies, plan capacity and highlight risks
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Work with engineering to deliver designs, iterate based on constraints and push a UX centric vision
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Interface with customers and users, alongside UX research team, to get user feedback
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Collaborate with other UX leaders within Procurement and across SAP for information sharing and learning
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Advocate User Centric Design processes with stakeholders and peers in Product Management and Engineering
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Manage the end:to:end project backlog, priority, and schedule for the applications responsible for
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Introduce a Scrum and Agile mindset within the design system team, with backlogs, priorities, burn:down, ceremonies etc.
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Partner with UX research team to ensure effective research is planned for and conducted for applications
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Partner with UX Design Systems team within and across SAP, to drive consistency and reuse
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Place individuals in roles and assignments that contribute to their personal and career development
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Hold yourself and your team accountable for setting and meeting departmental goals
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Inspire and gain the commitment of others towards the vision, mission, values, and organizational goals
WHAT YOU BRING :
Bachelor 's degree in Art, Design, HCI, Interaction, and/or equivalent practical experience.
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10 years of total experience, including 3 in a leadership role creating strategy and designing products.
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Prior experience leading user experience projects and teams
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Experience working with designers, product managers, and engineers.
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Experience integrating research programs throughout the life cycle, including experience with digital, global products.
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Experience managing scrum and agile teams
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Solid communication skills, with the ability to articulate positions and advocate designs.
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Excellent managerial and operational skills.
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Job Type: Permanent