Head of Product - Agentic Engineering (Base: Bangalore)

Job Description

Role Purpose

As a pivotal leader in our product organization, you will bridge the gap between enterprise-wide AI strategy and hands-on operational execution. You will design, build, and evolve next-generation, AI-native enterprise applications and multi-agent systems that accelerate AI adoption for SAP and its customers. You will combine strategic technical governance with AI-assisted engineering methods. This will help you deliver intelligent solutions that are secure, scalable, and reliable. These solutions will provide measurable business value.

What You'll Bring

• Strategic & Technical Expertise: A solid background in enterprise architecture and distributed systems. Experience with AI-native application platforms. This includes LLMs, advanced RAG, and multi-agent systems.
• Proven Leadership: Experience in creating and carrying out large-scale engineering and AI transformation strategies. Solid ability to influence executive stakeholders. Can align technology choices with business results.
• Modern Engineering Mindset: You should have solid hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering patterns. You also need experience with automated code generation, context engineering, and modern CI/CD delivery pipelines.
• Governance & Quality Focus: Proven ability to set engineering standards. Can create evaluation frameworks and benchmarking strategies. These frameworks ensure security, compliance, and reliability as we scale.
• People & Culture Leadership: Experience in mentoring senior technical leaders. Proven ability to build robust engineering teams. Skilled at creating a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities / What You'll Build

• Product vision and strategy
• Establish clear product boundaries and integration strategy across Joule, Joule Work, Joule Studio and SAP Business AI.
• Identify emerging technology shifts and translate them into differentiated product capabilities.
• Drive the evolution from low-code/no-code automation toward AI-native, agentic and pro-code development.
• Establish Joule Studio as SAP's strategic platform for enterprise agent and agentic application development.
• Define the long-term vision and multi-year product strategy for Agentic Engineering.

• Agentic engineering platform
• Enable extensibility across SAP and non-SAP business applications.
• Establish a cohesive runtime strategy covering identity, execution, context, memory, observability and security.
• Drive integration of MCP, A2A, APIs and enterprise systems.
• Define capabilities for agent creation, multi-agent orchestration, skills, reusable components, workflows and tools.
• Own product strategy across the complete agent development lifecycle: design, build, test, evaluate, deploy, operate and govern.

C. AI-native application development

• Enable seamless publishing and consumption through Fiori Launchpad, SAP Build Work Zone and Joule experiences.
• Build a composable application architecture integrating UI, business data, workflows, agents and enterprise services.
• Define experiences for natural-language development, visual composition and pro-code extensibility.
• Enable customers to augment existing SAP Fiori applications with agents, skills and autonomous workflows.
• Drive the evolution of Joule Studio beyond standalone agent creation into full-fledged agentic business application development.

D. Developer experience and ecosystem

• Work with strategic partners and hyperscalers to expand the platform ecosystem.
• Define marketplace and distribution strategies for enterprise agentic solutions.
• Build a scalable ecosystem for first-party and third-party agents, skills, tools and extensions.
• Drive collaboration, version control, reusable assets, testing and application lifecycle management.
• Establish a unified developer experience for business users, professional developers, enterprise architects and partners.

E. Enterprise readiness and governance

• Define lifecycle management and operational controls for autonomous agents and applications.
• Ensure extensibility without compromising SAP's clean-core principles.
• Establish comprehensive evaluation, quality, reliability and observability capabilities.
• Define agent identity, authorization, access control and policy enforcement.
• Drive enterprise-grade security, trust, compliance and governance.

F. Business strategy and commercial success

• Influence SAP's broader Business AI strategy and investment priorities.
• Establish measurable business outcomes, including productivity, developer velocity, automation rates, agent adoption and customer value realization.
• Drive product-led adoption and expansion across SAP's customer base.
• Partner with finance and go-to-market teams to establish pricing, packaging, licensing and consumption models.
• Define monetization strategies across agent creation, execution, orchestration, consumption and enterprise capabilities.

Leadership expectations

• Demonstrate courage in making difficult prioritization decisions and challenging conventional product assumptions.
• Balance long-term platform thinking with short-term execution and measurable outcomes.
• Drive alignment across multiple product teams and organizational boundaries.
• Influence senior executives across product, engineering, architecture and business organizations.
• Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation and customer obsession.
• Attract and develop exceptional product talent with strong technical depth and strategic thinking.
• Build, lead and scale a high-performing global product management organization.

Additional Information

Culture / Where You Belong

You will shape and scale a global engineering culture built on accountability, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous learning. You will work closely with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes.

This role is designed for a resilient leader who thrives in environments with high ambiguity, is comfortable making critical decisions with incomplete information, and can confidently defend technical direction to executive audiences while remaining deeply linked to the functional realities of software delivery.

About SAP

With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improves people’s lives.

As a leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone, regardless of background, feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or complete your application, please send an email with your request to the Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

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