Coupa
Sr. Director, Data Science - 11572
Foster City, CA, United States · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 50 days ago
PythonDatabricksMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchData ScienceLLMsMLOpsStatisticsStakeholder ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers.
- Learn more on Life at Coupa blog and hear from our employees about their experiences working at Coupa.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of AI/ML models (including Generative AI use cases) across multiple product domains.
- Own model performance: define KPIs, implement continuous evaluation, and drive ongoing improvements in accuracy, robustness, and latency.
- Build and advance AI observability, monitoring, and feedback loops to ensure model transparency and trust.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Data, and Platform teams to integrate AI into production systems and user experiences.
- Proven track record of delivering scalable, production-grade AI systems that drive measurable business impact.
Requirements
- We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Nice to have
- Establish and enforce Responsible AI practices, including fairness, bias mitigation, explainability, and compliance.
- Influence executive stakeholders by translating complex AI concepts into clear business impact and strategy.
- Hands-on experience with modern MLOps ecosystems (e.g., SageMaker, Vertex AI, Databricks, Kubeflow, MLflow).
- Deep experience with data strategy, including dataset creation, labeling, governance, and evaluation methodologies.
- Familiarity with Generative AI / LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation techniques.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field (PhD preferred).
Compensation
- Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
Benefits
- 10+ years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI, with 3-5+ years in leadership roles managing high-performing teams.
- Strong expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling, with experience in production environments.
Company info
- 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. 🔹
- We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence. 🔹
- Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing global team of data scientists and ML engineers.
Equal opportunity
- Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment.
This listing is sourced directly from Coupa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.