Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of senior engineers and AI practitioners, fostering a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous growth.

• Own team performance, including goal setting, feedback cycles, career development, and talent planning.

• Drive delivery excellence across multiple forward-deployed customer engagements, ensuring outcomes align with agreed success.

What you'll build:

• In this role, you lead and grow a team of senior engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners embedded directly within SAP's most strategic customer environments. As a Director-level people manager, you are accountable for the performance, development, and wellbeing of your team while also owning the delivery outcomes, technical quality, and customer impact of forward-deployed engagements at scale. You operate at the intersection of people leadership, technical strategy, and customer excellence translating organizational goals into team direction, and ensuring your team has the support, clarity, and environment to do their best work.

• Set technical direction and architectural guardrails for the team, in partnership with Chief Experts and technical leads.

• Act as a senior escalation point for delivery risks, team challenges, and customer concerns resolving issues with clarity and decisiveness.

• Build strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders and SAP leadership, representing the team's work and advocating for the resources needed to succeed.

• Attract, hire, and onboard top engineering talent across AI, data, and software engineering disciplines.

• Partner with product, go-to-market, and regional leadership to align team capabilities with strategic priorities and customer demand.

• Champion engineering best practices, responsible AI principles, and a culture of learning and innovation within the team.