**Requisition ID: 426743** **Work Area: Software-Design and Development** **Expected Travel: 0%** **Career Status: Professional** **Employment Type: Regular Full Time** **Career Level: T3-1** Original Posting Date: 05/19/2025 Senior Product Specialist: Senior Product Specialist Location: Palo Alto, CA Work Model: Hybrid work model Purpose and Objective: SAP Labs, LLC seeks a Senior Product Specialist at our Palo Alto, CA location to analyze technology trends such as Energy Transition and process automation and customer requirements to identify growth opportunities. Expectations and Tasks: Drive the success, quality, cost management and delivery of a product in the whole product lifecycle as defined in the portfolio. Evaluate competitive products in general Supply Chain processes (such as Oil & Gas Up-, Mid- and Downstream processes) on basis of publicly available information to ensure the product is on-par or competitive in the current market. Conducts user research and participates in and organizes customer events. Ensures customer input into all product definitions. Proactively engages and provides input for product strategy discussions. Contributes to developing a product vision and a product roadmap. Prioritizes and describes product backlog which reflects customer and user needs. Enriches backlog and ensures that the scrum team and other relevant stakeholders have a comprehensive understanding. Ensures rollout plan. Contributes to a holistic product vision and product design and ensures all product teams have a comprehensive understanding of business and usability requirements of Oil & Gas end users. Develops test cases and/or conducts expert testing and validates planned and implemented scope throughout product lifecycle and ensures delivery of high - quality software. Accepts or rejects sprint results. Contributes to creation of product-related non-coded assets, such as rollout and knowledge transfer material. Creates and contributes to the delivery of a product to implement the solution strategy. Collects and incorporates early feedback from Customers and other relevant stakeholders. Remains cognizant of usable software being available at the end of every sprint. Education and Occupational Experience: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience: Experience must involve two (2) years in the following: + Programming languages, including ABAP and Java; + Software Architecture; + Backlog Definition; + Agile or Scrum Methodology; + Requirements engineering, including gathering, specification, verification, and validation; + System Analysis and Design; + Quality Management and Testing; and + Oil & Gas (O&G) Industry Processes, including Main Up-, Mid-, or Downstream processes. Travel: N/A. This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy . Internal use only: reference code lhrs4262 SAP:SAIL EX: OUT **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. 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