PURPOSE & OBJECTIVE OF POSITION

SAP Concur, a part of SAP, imagines the way the world should work, offering cloud-based services that make it simple to manage travel and expenses. By connecting data, applications and people, SAP Concur delivers an effortless experience and total transparency into spend wherever and whenever it happens. SAP Concur services adapt to individual employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to large, so they can focus on what matters most. The company serves more than 30,000 clients representing more than 27 million users in over 150 countries. 

Are you passionate about building a deep understanding of the platform you're working with and creating a thriving developer ecosystem for SAP Concurs APIs?  Would you embrace the opportunity to understand the thoughts and experiences of external developers? Can you envision driving partner engagement programs enabling developers to build solutions for SAP Concur clients? Do you enjoy complex problem solving? Do you want to work in an environment that is dynamic, challenging, and constantly evolving? If so, keep reading! 

A few years ago, SAP Concur launched the SAP Concur App Center (www.concur.com/appcenter) offering customers a listing of pre-built solutions that work seamlessly with SAP Concur.  The App Center offers a way for prospects to see how SAP Concur is different than the competition; a way for clients to find solutions that are prebuilt to work with what they already have; and a way for users to connect their SAP Concur accounts with the apps that let them travel simple.  The foundation of the SAP Concur App Center is a myriad of partners across industries who provide simple, targeted solutions to SAP Concur client’s everyday problems.   

Join the App Center Technical Enablement team and help partners integrate into the SAP Concur App Center.  As a technical resource on the App Center platform, you will play crucial roles across the Partner Journey to help them succeed as an SAP Concur partner. 

  WHAT YOU'LL DO  

We hire Technical Platform Partnership interns that are passionate about solving technical problems and impacting millions of end-users. We recognize that intern contributions fuel some of our greatest innovations. That’s why we assign students to our toughest challenges and most forward-thinking projects. This summer, we are looking for an intern to: 

• Learn to lead technical discussions with partners as they evaluate the Concur Platform. Partners are focused on validating the technical feasibility of proposed integrations and want to ensure a stable, reliable, and trouble-free experience.  
• Conduct technical meetings and presentations to potential or existing Concur partners of our Platform – its APIs, authentication methodology, integrations, and certification process. 
• Gather functional requirements from partners, evaluate their needs and configure a solution that helps them begin development. 
• Create project scoping documents that outline the process and steps necessary to develop the partner’s application and integration scenarios to SAP Concur.  
• Resolve Platform/API questions for partner’s development resources. 
• Identify critical Partner integration scenarios that aren’t supported by the current APIs and assist R&D/Marketing teams to develop new APIs or identify unique approaches to meet the scenarios. 
• Assist with troubleshooting issues with partner integration projects 
• Participate in special projects such as working with R&D to design new features or functionality 
• Be aware of, and comply with, all corporate policies

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN 

As a Technical Platform Partnerships Intern, you'll gain skills and knowledge that can help you succeed in your future career, such as: 

• Real-world business experience working in a corporate office environment at a large international technology company 
• Networking with colleagues and partners with all levels and ranges of industry experience 
• Enhanced business communications skills in areas like oral and written communications, presentations, persuasion, and documentation 
• Experience working toward S.M.A.R.T. business objectives 
• Project management and conflict resolution experience 
• Experience scheduling and hosting meetings 
• Experience using business applications, such as Outlook, Skype for Business, Slack, Zoom, and GitHub 
• Exposure to technical app development processes including OAuth and API development

POSITION REQUIREMENTS: WHAT IT TAKES 

Our continued growth is dependent upon talented people with a variety of skills, knowledge and backgrounds. We hire Technical Interns with experience in all the following areas: 

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience 
• Quick learner with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced business environment 
• Strong computer skills 
• Ability to follow instructions and incorporate feedback 
• Excellent communication skills including presentation, persuasion, and sales skills 
• Solid written documentation skills 
• Planning and project management skills 
• Ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors, and ability to view problems from different angles and perspectives 
• Ability to pass a background check 
• Exposure to business application software and/or financial software (Travel & Expense, Payables, General Accounting, Project Accounting) preferred 
• Working knowledge of application development, OAuth, and RESTful APIs preferred 
• Working knowledge of software-as-a-service architecture preferred

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

What we’re looking for: 

• Pursuit of Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science or Information Systems preferred 
• A plus would be specific experience with REST APIs, JSON Resource Design, languages used to implement services like Java/JavaScript/Python etc.

SAP is one of the biggest business software companies in the world. We collaborate every day to help make the world run better and improve people's lives. Every day, we help companies and organizations of all sizes and industries to run their businesses profitably, to adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.