The Lead Solution Architect leads implementation projects for major clients, designs solutions, fosters customer relationships, and ensures successful project management and delivery.
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.
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🔹 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 Lead Solution Architect at Coupa:
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What you will do:
- Lead professional services projects with some of the largest companies in the world, as the design face (Solution Manager) with the objective of providing continuity across the platform functions & the various solution architects.
- Accountable for the overall design of customers implementations, advocating for industry & technology best practices
- Foster and develop relationships with customers key stakeholders
- Drive the key decision making & materials to support project progress and artifacts
- Partner with the Coupa Engagement Manager to be responsible for the overall customer success
- Develop & coach talent, in and out of projects, in the consulting expectations to ensure the right skills mix to meet customer success
- Broaden and Deepen your Coupa, as well as source-to-pay, knowledge throughout the source-to-pay lifecycle to be a clear and concise communicator
- Collaborate with documentation and product management teams to share expertise in further developing content & product
- Engage customers in enlightened business need discussions versus feature/function basics.
- Follow & advocate the Coupa implementation methodology to ensure customers adhere to good practices
- Work in both individual and team environments, on and off customers site
What you will bring to Coupa:
- Experience of managing a professional services team or consulting projects.
- 10+ years’ experience in source-to-pay, either internally via or externally with a consulting firm.
- Must be able to work in a fast paced and passionate environment.
- Must have a strong team success mentality as well as customer success focus.
- Strong experience in Coupa products
- Experience with Project Management or understanding good project principles which support software implementations and customer transformations
- Strong skills in tackling challenging or complex problems within a business. The ability to simplify the problem, bring decision frameworks, and carrell a team to recommending solutions.
- Candidates should have extremely strong client management skills and be able to work with customers to execute an implementation plan that works towards a rapid, successful go live
- Previous senior consulting experience with competing applications is a solid predictor of success e.g: Ariba, Ivalua, Jaegger, GEP
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience configuring and delivering software demonstrations are required.
- Experience in building a workshop plan which fits the scope at hand, developing materials, and facilitating workshops to achieve desired outcomes
The estimated pay range for this role is $128,000 - $166,500
The starting salary for the successful candidate will be based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.
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Coupa Products
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