SAP AppHaus Director Role | Lead Design Innovation (Remote)

Director of SAP AppHaus & Human-Centered Design Innovation United States (Remote) | Full Time | $180,000 – $230,000 + Bonus Join America’s First SAP AppHaus Network Partner Mindset Consulting is seeking an SAP AppHaus Director to lead our design thinking practice, innovation pipeline, and AppHaus-led engagement model. As the first US-based SAP AppHaus Network Partner and an SAP Gold Partner, we offer a unique opportunity to shape human-centered innovation for Fortune 500 enterprises. In this role, you will oversee the full lifecycle of user-centered innovation—from insight gathering and experience strategy to rapid prototyping and transition to BTP Build, AI, and engineering delivery teams. You will shape Mindset’s innovation offerings, grow our AppHaus brand presence, lead immersive workshops, and guide clients through human-centered problem solving that inspires modern SAP experiences and scalable BTP-based solutions. This SAP AppHaus Director position is ideal for a design-driven leader who thrives at the intersection of creativity, technology, and enterprise transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• AppHaus Leadership: Own the strategy, pipeline, and portfolio of Mindset AppHaus engagements, ensuring world-class experiences aligned to SAP’s AppHaus Network standards.
• Human-Centered Innovation: Lead design thinking engagements, discovery sessions, problem-framing workshops, and user research activities to uncover meaningful insights and opportunities.
• Experience Strategy: Drive concept-to-prototype journeys, producing experience blueprints, journey maps, wireframes, and experience roadmaps that connect directly into BTP Build, CAP, and AI delivery.
• Client Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to business and IT executives on UX strategy, innovation, transformation, and user-centered approaches across SAP landscapes.
• Practice Growth: Build and refine Mindset’s design-led innovation offerings, methodologies, accelerators, playbooks, and reusable artifacts.
• Collaboration with Delivery: Act as the bridge between design and engineering, ensuring smooth handoff and alignment into BTP Build, Fiori/UI5, CAP, and AI-based application development.
• Pre-Sales & GTM: Partner with Sales to shape opportunities, deliver workshops, scope engagements, and create compelling narratives tied to business value.
• Thought Leadership: Represent Mindset at SAP events, AppHaus community gatherings, conferences, and client innovation forums through talks, blogs, and showcases.
• Mentorship: Grow and develop a cross-functional team of designers, facilitators, researchers, and innovation consultants.
• Travel: Ability to travel as needed up to 25%.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years in UX, design thinking, product innovation, or human-centered design, with significant experience in SAP or enterprise transformation contexts.
• Design Expertise: Strong background in design thinking facilitation, user research, prototyping, and experience strategy. Proven ability to lead workshops for executives, business users, and technical teams.
• SAP & BTP Understanding: Familiarity with SAP BTP, SAP Build, Fiori/UI5, CAP, and experience-led transformation. Experience connecting design outcomes into modern SAP extension architectures.
• Consulting Competencies: Exceptional executive presence, storytelling, and the ability to translate human-centered insights into actionable business and technology strategies.
• Leadership: Track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, nurturing creative culture, and managing client engagements end-to-end.
• Portfolio: Demonstrated examples of design-led innovation work, workshop facilitation, and product/experience concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within an SAP AppHaus or similar innovation studio.
• Exposure to generative AI experiences, intelligent UX patterns, or AI-enhanced design toolchains.
• Experience with SAP’s Human-Centered Approach to Innovation (HCAI).
• SAP BTP certifications or hands-on familiarity with Build, UI5, or low-code development.

About Mindset Consulting Mindset Consulting is an SAP Gold Partner and the first US-based SAP AppHaus Network Partner. Based in Minneapolis, we merge deep SAP expertise with human-centered design to help enterprises create software that their employees love to use. We build intelligent solutions powered by SAP BTP, Business Data Cloud, and Business AI—making systems not just powerful, but intuitive, human-centered, and future-ready. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies across manufacturing, energy, retail, and financial services who partner with us to transform their SAP landscapes through design thinking and modern technology. Why Join Mindset

• Competitive compensation: $180,000 – $230,000 base salary plus bonus
• Remote-first flexibility with the ability to work from anywhere in the United States
• Attend and present at leading SAP events and conferences worldwide
• Join a collaborative, motivated team at a growing SAP consultancy
• Shape the future of human-centered SAP innovation at the only US-based AppHaus Partner

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Mindset, we are committed to diversity and inclusion as part of our journey of constant improvement. Our mission is to provide an inclusive environment where every individual can reach their full potential and make an impact. We believe that diversity of background, thought, experience, and perspective is essential to our workplace environment and makes us a powerful team that delivers the highest value to the clients we serve. Mindset does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran. We recruit, hire, promote, and provide advancement opportunities based on individual qualifications, job performance, and contributions to our team. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job