Dominik Asam, CFO at SAP, has revealed the tech giant’s plans to recruit “several thousand” people.
The CFO shared the news in response to an analyst question during SAP’s latest earnings call.
The analyst pressed Asam on SAP’s plans to increase its spending in late 2025 and how fast it plans to hire.
In response, Asam stated:
I don’t want to be precise now on how many headcount exactly, but we are talking about several thousands of headcount we would still embark.
However, while SAP accelerates its hiring, the company warned of a “reskilling component”.
As such, some of those “hires” will likely be attributed to moving existing employees from one job to another.
SAP did something similar last year, with only 3,000 employees reportedly leaving the company, despite the tech giant eliminating 10,000 roles.
However, Asam stated that the scale of the 2024 restructure was a “one-off”, mitigating concerns of similar workforce reductions and indicating that many of the new roles will be open to external applicants.
Already, these external candidates may apply for any of the 1,822 openings SAP has on its website (at the time of writing).
Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, highlighted the types of roles that the company is recruiting for. He said:
[We are] hiring in job profiles that define the future of our company, such as data and Business AI.
“We also need, on the consulting side, very dedicated people who can help us drive change management with the customers and implement all of these [AI] agents at the businesses of our customers,” he added.
SAP is infusing its AI agents into Joule, the AI copilot that is about to undergo a massive transformation, as teased during the earnings call.
SAP Joule Is About to Become Ubiquitous
Alongside all the workforce chatter, Klein shared some exciting news regarding SAP Joule. He stated:
Joule will be available everywhere across SAP and non-SAP systems starting in Q3, thanks to the integration with WalkMe. And it will also be giving answers to everything starting in Q4, powered by our partnership with Perplexity.
The WalkMe integration will help provide visibility across those first- and third-party systems, enabling Joule to not only be present across each but also automate workflows between them.
Meanwhile, SAP’s Perplexity partnership will combine internal business data with real-world insights, so that Joule can offer not just “answers to everything” but more intelligent answers, too.
Alongside these announcements, Klein discussed how SAP has already released 14 AI agents this year, with several notable examples in its CX Toolkit.
On the CX front, SAP touted a big win last quarter: nearly 100 customers, including BMW, jumped onto its Emarsys engagement platform.
Yet, the tech giant’s ambitions in the space extend far beyond Emarsys. As Balaji Balasubramanian, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP CX, recently told CX Today, the company is currently building a “modern and composable” customer experience suite.
More Highlights from SAP’s Q2, 2025 Earnings
SAP announced its total revenue growth reached 12 percent year-over-year (YoY) last quarter, surpassing analyst estimates.
The company’s cloud revenue spiked 28 percent YoY, led by the SAP Cloud ERP Suite, which rose 34 percent.
Ahead of Q3, Klein referenced concerns over uncertainty in global markets. However, he promised an “excellent pipeline” for the back-end of the year in “almost all markets and regions.”
