As Principal Product Manager at Coupa, you'll own the product strategy for Catalogs and Real-Time Search, ensuring alignment with broader business goals, engaging stakeholders, and collaborating with engineering teams.
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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The Impact of a Principal Product Manager at Coupa:
As the Principal Product Manager for Catalogs and Real-Time Search, you are the strategic architect of the foundational data discovery experience. You are responsible for the overall product strategy for this domain, as well as its critical synergies with other core product areas such as Procurement, Sourcing, and Supplier Management.
In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex technical infrastructure—like search relevancy and data indexing—and the high-level business vision. You will communicate with key stakeholders, including customers, partners, and internal teams, to ensure the domain's vision is clearly articulated in the market
What You’ll Do
- 7+ years of experience in Product Management, with a strong track record of owning and scaling complex product domains
- Own the Domain Vision: Lead the strategic planning and roadmapping for the complete product life cycle of the Catalogs and RTS components.
- Define Complex Requirements: Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to specify market requirements for current and future search and discovery products.
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Work across the organization to ensure the Catalog and RTS strategy aligns with the wider product ecosystem and business goals.
- Partner with Engineering: Collaborate closely with developers, architects, and quality engineering to define detailed requirements (stories) and ensure high-quality technical execution.
- Shape Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy: Partner with Marketing to crystallize product positioning, business value, and key benefits for target customers.
- Evangelize the Product: Give polished presentations to stakeholders and customers, acting as the primary advocate for the domain both internally and externally.
- Assess Market Position: Continually evaluate the competitive landscape to ensure the search and catalog offerings remain industry-leading.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- Strategic Leadership: Proven experience managing an entire product life cycle and growing a business domain through vision and execution.
- Technical Depth: The ability to work alongside architects and developers to solve complex data discovery and real-time search challenges.
- Influential Communication: Excellence in articulating a product vision to diverse audiences, from engineering teams to executive stakeholders and customers.
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Top Skills
AI
Data Discovery
Product Management
Search Technology
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