Senior Director of AI Platform Engineering, Coupa
$222-288k
Office located in Foster City, CA
Business spending management platform
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Business spending management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$222-288k
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide a clear idea of business value for clients.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership (Director or Sr. Director level)
- Track record building and leading AI/ML engineering teams of 15+ people across multiple geographies
- Deep technical understanding of ML/AI systems, including model training, fine-tuning, RAG, and model serving. Must be able to evaluate technical decisions and challenge architects
- Experience delivering AI/ML products in an enterprise B2B SaaS environment
- Experience scaling engineering teams and shipping complex AI capabilities from concept to production
- Strong partnership and vendor management experience with major AI and cloud providers
- Experience with cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale
- Track record managing distributed teams across US and India
- Excellent executive communication, translating technical strategy into business impact for C-level audiences
- Understanding of data privacy, tenant isolation, and responsible AI practices
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- Coupa's AI platform already powers conversational and autonomous agents, frontier model integrations, production ML models, and customer-facing AI experiences through Navi and Agent Studio
- The Sr Director, AI Platform Engineering will lead the next phase of this platform, expanding our model training capabilities, deepening our data infrastructure, and scaling our AI-powered features across the full breadth of Coupa's enterprise suite
- You will build and lead a team of engineers across the US and India, manage strategic technology partnerships, and deliver measurable improvements to model accuracy, efficiency, and coverage
- This role reports to senior engineering leadership with regular visibility to C-level stakeholders
- Lead the technical strategy and delivery roadmap for expanding Coupa's AI platform capabilities
- Build and manage a high-performing engineering team across the US and India, hiring across ML, data engineering, and platform disciplines
- Drive strategic partnership evaluations with AI infrastructure and model providers
- Define and prioritize AI use cases that deliver the highest accuracy and business impact, working closely with product leadership
- Expand model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure beyond frontier model integrations
- Own data strategy for AI, ensuring the right data pipelines, quality frameworks, and privacy-safe practices feed model development
- Coordinate with existing AI platform, data platform, application platform, and cloud operations teams
- Manage budget, hiring plan, and delivery milestones for the AI platform engineering organization
- Present strategy, progress, and results to VP/SVP/C-level stakeholders
- Ensure data safety, tenant isolation, and responsible AI practices across all AI capabilities
Our take
In 2006, Noah Eisner co-founded Coupa with Ravi Thakur, two fintech start-up specialists, as a provider of business spending management (BSM) services. Coupa has grown into its niche with a comprehensive platform that enables companies to gain greater control over their spending, supply networks, chain optimisation, liquidity management and payment solutions.
Coupa has been recognised as a leading brand in third-party risk management (TPRM). Using artificial intelligence software, its TPRM software takes data from hundreds of sources and generates risk flags across the entire platform, informing the user’s processing decisions.
TPRM integrates into Coupa’s business spending management systems to provide one comprehensive platform, a feat that gives it a definitive edge when it comes to secure management of company funds. Acquired in early 2023 by Thoma Bravo, Coupa is a company to watch, as progress in AI software could open opportunities for greater software automation on its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Mar 2014
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $169m
Company benefits
- Employee stock purchase program
- Health benefits for employees and their families
- Retirement and savings plans
- Flexible work environment
Company HQ
Town Center, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Leagh Turner
(CEO & Board Of Directors)Previously on the Board of Directors at Plan International Canada, was the Co-CEO of Ceridian and was COO at SAP.
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