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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.

As the Visual Designer at the SAP Research & Innovation Team you will:

• Conduct white space analysis and provide a UX perspective on state-of-the-art technologies and their applicability to new business scenarios
• Turn complex and technical concepts into beautiful compelling experiences
• Gather business needs, conduct user research, and validate concepts with internal and external stakeholders
• Work collaboratively and independently with cross-functional teams including product management, development, content strategy, management and other stakeholders
• Create low-fidelity mockups up to high fidelity prototypes, user journeys, sitemaps, and clickable mockups to support development and communication
• Delight users by creating engaging visual experiences
• Experiment with new ideas and concepts
• Verify user interface designs through reviews, validations, and usability testing with end-users
• Facility workshops
• Focus on enterprise software processes in the context of finance and HR, and its end user’s benefits
• Deliver outcomes of assigned projects and report their UX relevant milestones

What you bring

• Enrolled student (f/m/d) to BS, MS, or PhD in a visual design field e.g., Digital Design, Interaction Design, Software Product Design, Information Design, Communication Design, Media Design from a top university
• Experience in working with Interface Designing, working with/extending a consistent Design System, and Visual Design (visualizations, logo design, etc.)
• Ability to design and implement working prototypes based on interaction and information design specifications
• Strong knowledge of user interfaces design tools like Sketch, Figma, InVision, Abstract, Adobe CC and others
• Excellent understanding of fundamental design principles and human interaction principles
• Fast learning curve and ability to quickly understand technical topics
• Knowledge of SAP and best practice visual design, corporate visual identity, and branding standards
• Design experience in facilitating exploration of technical topics
• A solid foundation in typography, layout and design
• Experience with transitions, animation, motion design and dynamic interaction
• A penchant for details and organization, including the ability to prioritize tasks, communicate progress and meet deadlines
• The ability to effectively take direction and work both collaboratively and autonomously
• Fluency in English language (German is a plus)
• Start-up experience or background is a plus
• Working from the office in Potsdam, Berlin is required

Where you belong

The mission of the SAP Research & Innovation Team is to contextualize and pioneer emerging technologies that will be foundational for the future success of SAP and our customers. We are a diverse, global team and collaborate across roles, functions, and locations, enabling every colleague to contribute and investigate new ideas.

Our team in Potsdam explores new ways of working with technology to free up people’s creativity and ingenuity by reducing their repetitive tasks, bringing contextual information at the right place and at the right time, and enabling time for the high value activities that have a real business impact. We work on articulating and prototyping visions of enterprise software beyond the current roadmaps, investigating the most important jobs-to-be-done in the enterprise, and run projects to take us closer to fully autonomous enterprise software. You can watch our vision behind the future of finance here. We currently drive a portfolio of projects that leverage state of the art AI and research and adapt it to be the best business AI in the world.

Our team in Potsdam explores new ways of working with technology to free up people’s creativity and ingenuity by reducing their repetitive tasks, bringing contextual information at the right place and at the right time, and enabling time for the high value activities that have a real business impact. We work on articulating and prototyping visions of enterprise software beyond the current roadmaps, investigating the most important jobs-to-be-done in the enterprise, and run projects to take us closer to fully autonomous enterprise software all of it in the context of finance and augmentation.

The team cultivates an entrepreneurial spirit by encouraging risk taking, transparently sharing successes, failures and learnings, practicing continuous improvement, promoting psychological safety, and engaging in brainstorming sessions, design thinking workshops and any other ideation methods or activities that foster creativity.

Your set of application documents should contain a cover letter, a resume in table form, school leaving certificates, certificate of enrollment, current university transcript of records, copies of any academic degrees already earned, and if available, references from former employers (including internships). Please also describe your experience and skills in foreign languages and computer programs / programming languages.

This is a SAP global, strategic, paid working student position that provides students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

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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. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

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.

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Requisition ID: 441971 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Part Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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