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Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
- Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
- Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
- Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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As Sr. Product Manager in the Supply Chain Optimization team, you’ll evolve, define, and build innovative, differentiating and profitable products by leveraging your industry experience and engagement with forward-thinking customers. This role is to own the supply chain modeling platform. This includes Visualizations, Analytics, Telemetry, APIs, Observability & Security features that power the core modeling platform.
You will be responsible for applications across the entire product lifecycle from strategy to delivery with all the steps in between, like defining market needs, writing detailed product requirements, providing development support, communicating the solution’s benefits and enabling downstream teams.
You sit in the middle of the business community, engineering team, and user experience team and are the voice of the customer. You must enjoy spending time with customers to understand their pain points and find innovative solutions for the broader market.
You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You’ll build products from existing ideas, and help develop new and innovative ideas based on your industry experience and contact with customers and prospects. You relentlessly seek solutions with a measurable commercial impact and can elaborate on these financial benefits.
What You'll Do:
- Drive the vision, roadmap planning and execution of supply chain modeling platform, both short-term through the next several months in detail, as well as mapping out the next year or two
- Balance innovation, customer, and market needs to deliver delightful, useful, and simple experiences
- Manage the entire product life cycle, including strategy, roadmap, feature design, development, go-to-market, and field support
- Work closely with engineering through design, build, test of requirements (stories) and documentation
- Conducting competitive market analysis and analyzing potential partnerships for the product
- Represent the product internally and externally, with occasional global travel and presentations—both internally, and to customers with wide-ranging user needs and levels of sophistication
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- You have 8+ years of Technical Product Management experience at the Senior PM level.
- You understand the importance and language of UX, and work well with designers to prioritize and drive highly usable, well-designed solutions with clear UX standards.
- You’re eager to learn and have a history of quickly mastering complex new areas. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle work or questions hands-on.
- You know your market, customers, and competition, and you integrate this information into your product strategies.
- You can balance team, company, and external priorities, and make effective and well-reasoned
- You want to grow a business, solve customer problems and prioritize ruthlessly and logically.
- You are fluent at using AI technologies to enhance the quality and velocity of product development
- Product Management experience
- B2B, SaaS
- Technical background i.e. have worked as engg in the past, have worked as technical PM with APIs or Platform type products
- Some Supply chain experience even if not directly in supply chain design or supply chain planning e.g. Warehouse Management, Order Management
- Be hands on
- Independent, self-starter
- Communication skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders
- Fit to our Culture
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
At Coupa, we are 100% committed to creating and nurturing an environment that supports your physical, mental, and community well-being. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help you and your family thrive:
Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)
- Global Wellness Days: Enjoy two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September) so the entire global team can unplug, step away, and recharge together .
- Birthday Time-Off: Celebrate your day! Coupa provides a paid day off on your birthday or another day of your choice within your birthday month .
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO): Giving back is in our DNA. We offer 40 hours of paid VTO annually to support the community initiatives and volunteer programs you are passionate about .
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources for emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents .
- Business Travel Protection: Travel with peace of mind. Zurich Travel Assist provides medical, safety, pre-trip planning, and emergency support during any business travel .
- Referral Bonus Program: Share the Coupa experience! Receive generous monetary referral bonuses when you successfully refer talented friends or acquaintances who are hired into open roles .
Please note: In addition to these global well-being perks, Coupa offers highly competitive, location-specific benefits packages (which include comprehensive medical/dental insurance, retirement/pension plans, and life or accident protection) tailored to your primary work location. Your recruiter will walk you through the specific regional benefits package for this role during the interview process.
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