Strategy & Vision: Define and execute the SAP Commerce Cloud strategy, aligning with overall company objectives, industry trends, and customer needs. Champion modernization efforts, including cloud-native services, AI-driven commerce, and headless architectures.
Product & Engineering Execution: Drive roadmap execution with a strong focus on delivering high-quality, scalable, and reliable commerce solutions. Ensure engineering excellence, platform modernization, and velocity of delivery to stay ahead of market demands.
Customer & Market Engagement: Partner with enterprise customers, analysts, and industry stakeholders to shape the future of SAP Commerce Cloud. Drive adoption and retention through continuous product innovation and market differentiation.
Go-to-Market Leadership: Work closely with sales, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure strong product-market fit, compelling messaging, and effective enablement of field teams and partners.
Team Leadership & Talent Development: Lead a globally distributed organization, fostering a high-performance culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration across product management, engineering, and operations.
Ecosystem & Integration: Enhance the role of SAP Commerce Cloud within the broader SAP Customer Experience (CX) portfolio, ensuring seamless integration with Marketing, Sales, Service, and Data Cloud solutions.
Operational Excellence & Business Impact: Continuously optimize processes, improve execution efficiency, and ensure business KPIs, such as revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and market share, are met.
Key Qualifications:
Proven track record of leading global product and engineering organizations in enterprise SaaS, cloud commerce, or related domains.
Deep understanding of the commerce market, including B2B, B2C, and marketplace models, and emerging trends such as composable commerce and AI-driven personalization.
Strong technical acumen in cloud-native architectures, API-first commerce, and scalable multi-tenant platforms.
Demonstrated ability to drive strategy, execution, and go-to-market collaboration to accelerate product traction and customer adoption.
Experience working with enterprise customers, understanding their needs, and translating them into actionable product and engineering priorities.
Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience managing distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
Ability to navigate complex organizational environments, influencing and aligning stakeholders across product, sales, marketing, and engineering.
Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to engage C-level executives, analysts, and industry leaders.