(Senior) User Experience Design Specialist (f/m/d) in SAP UX Job

Requisition ID: 270569
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Location: Walldorf
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That’s why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

The Role

The SAP User Experience team defines the face of the SAP products. We have dramatically simplified our user experience with SAP Fiori (https://experience.sap.com/fiori). We are now looking for you as a passionate interaction designer to join us in driving this change going forward.
As part of the SAP UX Design team, you are going to work on evolving the SAP Fiori Design System to the next level. Key tasks and responsibilities for this role would be – creating new concepts, preparation of specifications and enablement assets (e. g. guidance articles) for UX design components.
You ensure the relevance of your designs working closely with technology and application units within SAP and exposing concepts and designs to customers and end users for feedback. You are passionate about interaction design and empathic towards end-users. You will define and communicate new responsive interaction concepts or build upon and extend existing concepts on a level of controls, patterns and floorplans. Abstracting and generalizing requirements is necessary to ensure relevance and scale of your work. 
You feel responsible for your work and accompany your concepts throughout the development life cycle, and you are continuously broadening your horizon on design methodologies, technologies and upcoming trends. 
You will become part of an exciting and international design team of over 100 designers that works in the heart of SAP that operates across organizational boundaries with touch points to all continents and cultures
 

Role Requirements

• 6+ years’ experience in interaction design (ideally application design or design concepts)
• Exceptional portfolio showcasing a wide range of design work
• Strong understanding of fundamental design principles, user-centered design methods, and design processes
• You can visualize your concepts in a clear, structured and compelling way
• Verification of user interface designs through reviews, validations and format usability testing with end users
• You have the ability to abstract and generalize requirements and manage the end-to-end user experience for a product or product line
• Ability to frame problems clearly, bring in original ideas and approaches to solving them and persuasively communicate the most compelling solutions
• Proven ability to interact and coordinate with teams in multi-site international locations
• You are continuously broadening your horizon on design methodologies, technologies and upcoming trends
• Experience in agile and scrum methodologies is a plus
• You are fluent in English (spoken and written) and German

About the team

The SAP User Experience Design (UX) team creates the interaction design concepts, layouts, patterns, controls and guidelines that are used across all areas of the organization as well as by our customers and partners (https://ux.wdf.sap.corp/fiori-design/). 

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own.

A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you’re searching for a company that’s dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment – apply now.

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT
To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you 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 (Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com).

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