Product Expert - SAP Ariba Product Management

Location: Bengaluru, India

Product Expert - SAP Ariba Product Management
+ Team Links: Engineering
+ Location Links: Bengaluru
+ Work Pattern: Hybrid - Contract Type: Full-time - Reference: REF3614B
The Role
Job Description
Bring
Required Skills and Experience
+ Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
+ 15+ years of experience in customer-facing product management.
+ Experience building SaaS applications in the enterprise software space.
+ Experience building AI-first capabilities and making data-driven product decisions.
+ You should have good communication skills. You need to manage stakeholders successfully. Experience in converting technical ideas into business results is also important.
+ Solid customer management skills.
+ A robust ownership bias and willingness to jump into areas with great levels of ambiguity and drive clarity and progress forward.
+ Solid experience in Finance, Treasury, Payments, Settlement, Accounts Payable, and/or Accounts Receivable business processes is highly desired.
Soft Skills & Approach
+ Strategic, systems-level thinker with a bias toward action and clarity.
+ Well-developed sense of ownership, even when something is not part of your direct responsibility.
+ Collaborative and comfortable working across distributed global teams.
+ Effective communicator. Able to influence and align with internal and external stakeholders.
+ Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities and complex technology stacks.
Build
We are seeking a Product Expert to drive SAP’s vision for intelligent, end-to-end procurement experiences. In this role, you will work with product and engineering leaders. You will focus on sourcing, contracting, buying, and fulfillment. Your goal is to define and implement a clear product and AI strategy. This strategy will link these areas. It will use shared intelligence, contextual grounding, and workflow orchestration. You will translate the latest AI advancements into scalable, production-grade features that elevate user experiences, reduce manual effort, and drive measurable business outcomes across the procurement suite. While this is not a hands-on coding role, you’ll need well-developed technical fluency in LLMs, retrieval and grounding, and platform services to bridge engineering, data, and business teams across SAP’s ecosystem.
You will help create a plan for procurement applications and AI features. These features include assistants, agents, recommendations, insights, and automation. You will also ensure that everything aligns with Joule, SAP Knowledge Graph, the SAP Business Data Cloud, and central AI services. You’ll collaborate with engineering and platform teams to manage dependencies, accelerate delivery, and ensure consistency across products. In addition, you’ll work closely with other procurement and enterprise PMs to define how intelligent agents, shared models, and orchestration frameworks integrate across SAP and non-SAP ecosystems. This role will be pivotal in guiding teams toward an AI-first procurement experience, ensuring our products remain interoperable, grounded, and future-ready.
Key Responsibilities
+ Shape Product and AI Strategy: Contribute and drive the procurement application and AI roadmap aligning with Joule, KG, BDC, central AI services, and support user research and customer events.
+ Gain market and customer insight: Analyze technology trends, customer needs, and competitors to identify SAP growth opportunities.
+ Ensure product definition: Incorporate customer input into product definitions, prioritize and describe backlog, align stakeholders on scope, and ensure rollout planning.
+ Ensure product delivery: Contribute to product vision, design, testing, sprint acceptance, rollout materials, and delivery. Validate scope, incorporate stakeholder feedback, and ensure high-quality software each sprint.
+ Lead Discovery: Identify high-impact AI opportunities by analyzing customer pain points, data gaps, and market trends.
+ Own the Product and AI Lifecycle: Partner with engineering and data science to design, test, and launch production-ready AI features and models.
+ Define Success Metrics: Establish and track KPIs for product and AI performance, adoption, and business impact to guide continuous improvement.
+ Ensure Data Quality: Collaborate with PMs to build ground-truth datasets and evaluate ML/AI feature quality using quantitative and qualitative signals.
+ Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with UX, platform, and domain teams to ensure consistent, contextual AI experiences across the procurement suite.
+ Drive Market Alignment: Partner with Product Marketing to articulate product and AI vision, differentiation, and customer value for go-to-market success.
Belong
We are part of the SAP Ariba Product Management organization. Our mission is to be the single front-door for end users to simplify their work and automate business workflows. As product leaders within this domain, we bridge engineering, field services, UX, and platform teams to define and deliver visionary capabilities grounded in real enterprise needs. We collaborate across functions and geographies to craft product strategy, prioritize roadmap features, manage dependencies, and drive adoption. If you can think for yourself, we want you on our team. You should be motivated to make life easier for business users. You should enjoy working with complex technologies and solving difficult problems. You will work in a spirited, cross-functional environment.
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