Senior Product Manager, Direct Procurement

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. 

As a Product Manager on the Coupa Procurement team, you define and build products that drive tangible value for users. You operate at the intersection of the business community, engineering team, and user experience team and you represent the voice of the customer. You design and execute on new, innovative ideas backed by conversations with customers and procurement experts.

You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savviness; a big-picture vision and an internal drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy digging deeper, collaborating, rolling up your sleeves, and getting it done.

What you will do:

• Represent the Procurement product internally and externally
• Operate with a general manager mindset, and manage the entire life cycle from strategic planning, road mapping, feature design, development support, go-to-market, and field support for the features you own
• Work cross-functionally to ensure alignment between other product areas and the wider organization
• Define detailed feature requirements in partnership with Engineering, UX, Services as well as customers
• Work closely with Engineering through design, build, test of requirements (stories), and documentation
• Measure success of your product and drive feature adoption through cross-functional & customer enablement
• Give polished presentations to stakeholders and customers
• Continually assess our products’ competitive market position

What you will bring to Coupa:

• You have 8+ years of experience, at least 5 in Product Management in enterprise SaaS
• You are a clear communicator and an organized thinker
• Your strong sense of ownership means you persevere when others fall away. You get excited to roll up your sleeves and tackle a challenge hands-on
• You connect the dots from multiple sources to reach a higher understanding on ambiguous topics. You excel at converting this into concrete, delightful product features characterized by great user experience
• You are comfortable managing conflicting viewpoints and strong personalities to extract insight and close the loop
• You know exactly what needs to be accomplished at every milestone, consistently driving toward clarity and on-time delivery
• Dev, QE and UX trust you and brainstorm with you. Stakeholders don’t get blind-sighted by you
• You have a 6th sense for anticipating problems and delays before they arise, and you’re able to either avert them or prepare yourself
• You have experience building zero to 1 in the context of legacy systems

Preferred Skills:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a technical degree is preferred. MBA a strong plus
• Experience with areas of business spend management like material master management, procurement, and sourcing for direct materials and strategic spend categories
• Strong fundamentals with application development, Agile software development, Jira, Confluence and mastery of writing analytics SQL queries

The estimated pay ranges for this role are as follows:

•Based in Bay Area, California: $155,975 - 183,500

•Based in Colorado: $128,775 - 151,500

•Based in New Jersey: $148,325 - 174,500

•Based in New York: $148,325 - 174,500

•Based in Washington: $139,825 - 164,500

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.

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