VP of Product - Enterprise Agentic Compliance

SAP•Stanford, CA

144d•$274,300 - $609,200•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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.
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.

Responsibilities

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