The Senior Manager will oversee the end-to-end Lead-to-Opportunity lifecycle, manage a technical team of Salesforce Developers and BSAs, and ensure system scalability and accuracy while fostering a collaborative culture.
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 Sr. Manager, Business Applications Administration at Coupa:
As the Domain Owner for Lead-to-Opportunity (L2O), you are the architect and primary driver of the revenue funnel’s engine. This is a high-impact, "Player-Coach" role responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle—from lead capture and enrichment to opportunity closure. In addition to managing the roadmap and actively designing, configuring, and troubleshooting within Salesforce, you will directly manage and mentor a technical team of Salesforce Developers and Business Systems Analysts (BSAs). You ensure pipeline accuracy, system scalability, and a seamless user experience while fostering a high-performing, empowered engineering and analysis pod.
What You'll Do:
- End-to-End Lifecycle Management: Own the full L2O process, including lead capture, enrichment, automated routing, qualification, and opportunity stage management.
- Architectural Evolution: Partner with business leaders and architects to define the target state architecture, ensuring the system evolves ahead of business growth.
- Tech Stack Governance: Act as the gatekeeper against "tool sprawl" and technical debt by maximizing existing platform capabilities before adding new vendors.
- Direct Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a dedicated pod of Salesforce Developers and Business Systems Analysts.
- Resource & Capacity Planning: Allocate work efficiently across your team, balancing complex architectural builds with daily operational support and minimizing burnout.
- Technical & Functional Coaching: Elevate the team's capabilities. Guide developers on Apex/LWC best practices and scalable architecture; coach BSAs on translating complex stakeholder asks into airtight, precise user stories and technical requirements.
- Performance & Growth: Conduct regular 1:1s, manage performance reviews, and build clear career progression paths for your direct reports.
- Salesforce Engineering: Lead the design and configuration of Sales Cloud (Leads, Campaigns, Opportunities, Accounts, Contacts) alongside your development team.
- Automation: Build and maintain complex Flows, lead assignment rules, queues, and workflows.
- Data Integrity: Oversee Master Data Management (MDM) within the L2O domain to ensure clean, deduplicated, and enriched data.
- Marketing-to-Sales Alignment: Own the integration with Marketing Automation Platforms (Marketo) and manage conversion logic.
- Boundary System Oversight: Manage specialized tools including LeanData (routing), ZoomInfo/D&B (enrichment), Clari (Forecasting), Snowflake/Tableau (analytics layers), and several others in the GTM tech Stack.
- Vendor Accountability: Ensure all third-party tools are delivering measurable ROI and are integrated with high technical standards.
- Service Ownership: Manage the L2O portfolio as a "service." Run bi-weekly reviews to report on system health and project transparency.
- Backlog & Prioritization: Transform vague stakeholder needs into concise technical requirements. Manage the delivery roadmap for your team, balancing long-term transformation with urgent operational fixes.
- Performance Metrics: Define and track key KPIs:
- Quality: Defect leakage and incident trends.
- Velocity: Sprint predictability and throughput for your dev/BSA pod.
- Efficiency: SLA adherence for lead routing and system uptime.
- Lead adoption of AI tools across the pod for team productivity and driving business outcomes.
- Define & Implement AI-assisted Workflows (Intake, development acceleration, QA automation, Support resolution).
- Measure and improve team productivity using AI. This is a mandate, not a side project. You are expected to rethink how work gets done.
1. Domain & Strategic Ownership
2. Team Leadership & People Management (Developers & BSAs)
3. Hands-On Salesforce Technical Delivery
4. Ecosystem & Integration Management
5. Operational Excellence & Delivery
6. AI Driven Delivery & Productivity
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Deep Functional Expertise: 8–12+ years in GTM systems with a focus on the Lead-to-Opportunity lifecycle.
- People Management: 3+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, and scaling technical teams (specifically Developers, BSAs, or System Admins) in an agile environment.
- Salesforce Mastery: Advanced hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud; familiarity with ETM (Enterprise Territory Management) is a plus.
- The L2O Tech Stack: Proficiency with LeanData, Marketo/6sense, ZoomInfo, and Outreach/Clari.
- Data Fluency: Strong understanding of lead routing logic, territory modeling, and analytics tools (Snowflake, Tableau).
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead without authority, manage third-party vendors, push back on stakeholders to protect system health, and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence within your team.
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