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What you'll build
As Product Management Lead of SAP Payroll & Benefits Solutions (m/f/d), you will take full ownership of the strategic advancement and scalable growth of our SAP Payroll & Benefits product portfolio. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for driving innovation through an AI-first solution approach, user-centric design, and business acceleration within the SAP SuccessFactors HCM landscape.
You will shape the future of Payroll and Benefits by combining deep domain expertise with AI-enhanced automation, predictive capabilities, and intelligent user experiences — making Payroll & Benefits not only accurate and compliant but also more proactive, efficient, and human-centric. You will lead a senior team of product managers in building cloud-native solutions that scale across global markets.
Your Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
1. Drive the strategic development and modernisation of SAP Payroll offerings in line with SAP’s HCM and cloud platform vision
2. Expand the solution portfolio to include AI-powered components that enhance payroll validation, compliance checks, and decision-making
3. Define the payroll and benefits roadmap to align with evolving business needs, market trends, including trends such as BPO models, and innovations such as intelligent automation and conversational UX
4. Strengthen SAP's leadership position in the payroll market by ensuring business growth along with market growth
Solution Design & Innovation
5. Design next-generation payroll, benefits and adjacent solutions that are cloud-delivered, modular, and scalable, built for global extensibility
6. Integrate AI/ML-based capabilities
7. Build solutions that serve both expert users (e.g. administrators) and business-facing users (e.g. managers, employees), with intuitive interfaces and explainable intelligence
Product Delivery & Excellence
8. Manage full lifecycle of Payroll and Benefits innovations — from concept to launch — ensuring speed, quality, and continuous improvement
9. Ensure the ability to meet compliance needs with global and local regulatory standards while offering extensibility for customer-specific needs
10. Lead the development of pre-configured content, validation templates, and diagnostic tools that leverage AI for proactive issue resolution
Leadership & Collaboration
11. Guide a high-performing team of product managers, fostering innovation and ownership
12. Collaborate closely with AI platform teams, UX, partner ecosystems, and customer co-innovation programs
13. Partner with sales and go-to-market teams to drive business growth and market expansion, adoption and growth of AI-enhanced Payroll and Benefits solutions
What you bring
14. Senior-level experience in product management, solution strategy and/ or development in Payroll, HCM, or enterprise SaaS
15. Deep domain knowledge of SAP Payroll (on-premise and/or cloud) or other enterprise-grade payroll platforms, including expertise in BPO markets and customer needs
16. Familiarity with AI and automation use cases in the payroll or finance domain (e.g. ML, rules engines, predictive diagnostics)
17. Strong understanding of cloud architecture, user-centric product design, and scalable enterprise software delivery
18. Strategic mindset with hands-on drive and customer empathy
19. Excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus)
What we offer
20. A strategic leadership role with significant autonomy and direct impact on SAP HCM business performance
21. Opportunity to define the AI roadmap for Payroll, setting new standards in automation and insight
22. Collaboration with one of the most experienced teams in SAP HCM and Enterprise Payroll
23. Competitive compensation, hybrid working model, and an innovation-driven culture in Walldorf
Redefining Payroll & Benefits – Intelligent. Scalable. Human.
Join us in shaping a new generation of Payroll—powered by AI, trusted by users, and built to scale across the world.
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. At SAP, you can bring out your best.