VP of Product - Enterprise Agentic Compliance

We help the world run better At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. What you’ll drive As VP of Product – Enterprise Agentic Compliance, you will lead the cross-portfolio execution and governance required to ensure SAP’s agentic AI capabilities are trusted, compliant, secure, and enterprise-ready. Working across product, engineering, architecture, security, legal, and compliance teams, you will establish the frameworks, standards, and operating mechanisms that enable SAP product teams to innovate quickly while meeting enterprise requirements for responsible AI. Rather than owning an individual product roadmap, you will operate horizontally across SAP’s AI portfolio—driving alignment, readiness, accountability, and execution across multiple product and technology organizations. Lead the cross-functional operating model for Enterprise Agentic Compliance, coordinating priorities, dependencies, risks, and readiness across product, engineering, architecture, security, legal, and compliance teams Establish and drive enterprise-wide standards and guardrails for the secure, responsible, and compliant development and deployment of agentic AI capabilities Define frameworks for AI evaluation, release readiness, quality, hallucination risk, privacy, security, auditability, monitoring, and operational performance Partner with product and engineering leaders to integrate compliance and enterprise-readiness requirements into their product roadmaps and development processes Drive cross-organizational decisions and trade-offs involving time-to-market, regulatory requirements, security, reliability, cost, and risk Establish clear governance, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, and accountability across teams developing and deploying agentic AI capabilities Oversee readiness and rollout processes for agentic capabilities, ensuring appropriate controls, monitoring, rollback mechanisms, and continuous improvement are in place Identify systemic risks, gaps, and dependencies across the portfolio and drive the appropriate teams toward resolution Develop metrics and executive reporting that provide transparency into compliance, readiness, risk, and execution across SAP’s agentic AI portfolio Represent Enterprise Agentic Compliance in executive forums, translating complex technical, regulatory, and operational considerations into clear decisions and actions What you bring You are an enterprise AI leader who excels at creating structure, alignment, and accountability across complex organizations. You understand modern AI deeply enough to challenge technical decisions and assess risk, while bringing the influence and execution discipline required to drive outcomes across teams you do not directly control. 15+ years of experience across enterprise software, technology strategy, product operations, program leadership, governance, or related disciplines, including significant senior leadership experience Deep understanding of AI products and architectures, including large language models, agentic runtimes, tool-using agents, orchestration, grounding, and enterprise AI platforms Strong expertise in AI security, trust, risk, and compliance, including privacy, access controls, auditability, prompt-injection defenses, and responsible AI practices Experience establishing governance frameworks, operating models, standards, and execution mechanisms across complex technology organizations Working knowledge of LLM/ML Ops, including evaluation, monitoring, safe rollout and rollback, regression testing, and production readiness Demonstrated ability to influence product and engineering organizations without direct ownership of their roadmaps or teams Proven ability to drive alignment and accountability across stakeholders with competing priorities Strong judgment and willingness to challenge teams constructively when speed, innovation, security, and compliance requirements conflict Highly execution-oriented, with the ability to identify risks, establish clear ownership, remove blockers, and drive complex initiatives to completion Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex AI, regulatory, and technical issues into clear decisions and actionable recommendations Where you belong As VP of Product – Enterprise Agentic Compliance, you will operate at the center of SAP’s rapidly evolving agentic AI ecosystem. You will partner closely with the leaders who own SAP’s AI products, platforms, and engineering roadmaps, providing the governance, standards, coordination, and enterprise-readiness discipline required to bring trusted agentic capabilities to market at scale. This role is best suited for a leader who thrives through influence, orchestration, governance, and cross-organizational execution—and who is energized by enabling product teams across SAP to innovate responsibly and successfully. 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. 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. For SAP employees Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements. Compensation Range Transparency SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step towards demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 274300-609200USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits. We are ethical and compliant Our leadership credo: Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders. Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process. Job Information Employment Type: Regular Full Time Work Area: Solution and Product Management Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Location: Palo Alto, CA, US, 94304 Nearest Major Market: San Jose Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto Job Segment: Compliance, Law, ERP, Cloud, Testing, Legal, Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr SAP SE