Senior Product Manager @ Coupa Software

Senior Product Manager

Inventory

Posted on 3/12/2022

INACTIVE

Locations

Burlingame, CA, USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Agile

Management

Market Research

UI/UX Design

Requirements

You have 4+ years of Product Management experience at the PM or 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 might not know Business Spend Management today but you're eager to learn and you have a history of mastering complex new areas quickly. 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 tradeoffs
You're biased toward action, a great collaborator, and use analysis and facts to help make decisions
You want to grow a business, solve customer problems, and can prioritize ruthlessles and logically
You have excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to synthesize, summarize, and extract the essence of what matters for each stakeholder
You're eager to learn, self-start and thrive in a growing and fast-moving company
BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a technical degree is preferred
MBA a strong plus, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

Drive the vision, roadmap planning and execution of Coupa's Inventory product, 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
Evangelize and advocate internally and externally for complex and sometimes difficult to explain technologies
Negotiate and advocate with other teams to solve cross-product needs
Conducting competitive market analysis and analyze 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

Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), a leader in business spend management (BSM), has been certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work organization. We deliver “Value as a Service” by helping our customers maximize their spend under management, achieve significant cost savings and drive profitability. Coupa provides a unified, cloud-based spend management platform that connects hundreds of organizations representing the Americas, EMEA, and APAC with millions of suppliers globally. The Coupa platform provides greater visibility into and control over how companies spend money. Customers – small, medium and large – have used the Coupa platform to bring billions of dollars in cumulative spend under management. Learn more at www.coupa.com. Read more on the Coupa Blog or follow @Coupa on Twitter.

Do you want to work for Coupa Software, the world’s leading provider of cloud-based spend management solutions? We’re a company that had a successful IPO in October 2016 (NASDAQ: COUP) to fuel our innovation and growth. At Coupa, we’re building a great company that is laser focused on three core values:

1. Ensure Customer Success – Obsessive and unwavering commitment to making customers successful.

2. Focus On Results – Relentless focus on delivering results through innovation and a bias for action.

3. Strive For Excellence – Commitment to a collaborative environment infused with professionalism, integrity, passion, and accountability.

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll help us define and build products that are valuable, usable and feasible. You sit in the middle of the business community, engineering team, and user experience team and are the voice of the customer. Your responsibilities range from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company. You’ll build products from existing ideas, and help develop new and innovative ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. 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 must enjoy spending time with customers to understand their pain points, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.

You’re able to communicate with all areas of the company. You’ll work with developers and quality engineering to define product release requirements. You’ll work with the marketing team to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You’ll also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.

Responsibility:

Drive the vision, roadmap planning and execution of Coupa’s Inventory product, 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
Evangelize and advocate internally and externally for complex and sometimes difficult to explain technologies
Negotiate and advocate with other teams to solve cross-product needs
Conducting competitive market analysis and analyze 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

Requirements:

You have 4+ years of Product Management experience at the PM or 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 might not know Business Spend Management today but you’re eager to learn and you have a history of mastering complex new areas quickly. 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 tradeoffs.
You’re biased toward action, a great collaborator, and use analysis and facts to help make decisions.
You want to grow a business, solve customer problems, and can prioritize ruthlessles and logically.
You have excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to synthesize, summarize, and extract the essence of what matters for each stakeholder.
You’re eager to learn, self-start and thrive in a growing and fast-moving company.
BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a technical degree is preferred.
MBA a strong plus, or equivalent work experience.

Preference will be given to candidates who are able to commute to our San Mateo, CA office.

At Coupa, we have a strong and innovative team dedicated to improving the spend management processes of today’s dynamic businesses. It’s our people who make it happen, and we strive to attract and retain the best in every discipline.

We take care of our employees every way we can, with competitive compensation packages, as well as restricted stock units, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), comprehensive health benefits for employees and their families, a 401(k) match, a flexible work environment, no limit vacations for exempt employees, non-exempt employees are on an accrual basis for PTO, catered lunches…And much more!

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Coupa is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Please be advised, inquiries or resumes from recruiters will not be accepted.

1,001-5,000 employees

Website

Business spend management

Company Overview

Coupa wants to transform the way that businesses manage their spend.

Benefits

Insurance Package
Family Support
Legal Assistance
Student Loan Assistance
Employee Assistance
Discounts

Company Core Values

ENSURE CUSTOMER SUCCESS: Obsessive and unwavering commitment to making customers successful.
FOCUS ON RESULTS: Relentless focus on delivering results through innovation and a bias for action.
STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE: Commitment to a collaborative environment infused with professionalism, integrity, passion and accountability.