The RVP, Premium Support leads and scales a team of Technical Account Managers to enhance the Premium customer experience and operational success, ensuring consistent service delivery and maximizing customer ROI.
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The Impact of an RVP, Premium Support at Coupa:
The RVP, Technical Account Management is a leader responsible for building and scaling a team of high-impact Technical Account Managers (TAMs) dedicated to our Premium Plus customers. This role is central to Coupa's Customer Success Partnership strategy. This role owns the operational success, strategy, and continuous improvement of the Premium Plus offering, ensuring the team consistently delivers enhanced service level targets (SLTs), in-depth release guidance, and strategic engagements like Success Checks and Prescriptive Solution Reviews. You will be the internal champion for the Premium customer experience, working across Support, Engineering, Product, and Professional Services to ensure seamless, high-touch technical advocacy and maximum customer ROI.
What You'll Do:
- Own the strategy and operational readiness for scaling the TAM function as part of the multi-tiered Premium offerings, ensuring consistency and quality across all delivery tiers.
- Formalize the execution and reporting structure for high-value services, ensuring they align with the described outcomes (e.g., generating an Actionable Report and Prioritized Roadmap from a Success Check).
- Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and objectives (e.g., customer retention/GRR, adoption rates, successful release adoption, response/resolution times for premium escalations).
- Establish and standardize workflows, best practices, and playbooks for key deliverables, including Success Checks, Release Guidance, and Prescriptive Solution Reviews.
- Ensure the Premium Plus team successfully drives adoption of new features, provides expert optimization advice, and ultimately helps customers maximize their ROI on the Coupa solution.
- Work closely with Sales and Customer Success teams to articulate the value of Premium offerings and identify opportunities for additional Professional Services engagements (including Prescriptive Solution Reviews).
- Systematically gather and communicate technical feedback, product gaps, and performance issues from Premium customers back to Product and Engineering to influence the Coupa roadmap.
- Recruit, train, coach, and manage a high-performing team of Technical Account Managers, fostering a culture of technical expertise, customer advocacy, and proactive service delivery.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology) or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Account Management (TAM), Solutions Engineering, or a high-touch technical consulting role within a SaaS environment.
- 2+ years of direct people management experience, leading a technical or customer-facing team.
- Deep understanding of enterprise-level Cloud/SaaS architecture, system integration patterns (APIs, web services), and technical troubleshooting methodologies.
- Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business impact for both internal and external senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organizational structures and drive outcomes across multiple internal teams (e.g., Engineering, Support, Product, Sales).
- A proactive, strategic mindset focused on preventing issues and creating long-term customer value, rather than simply resolving tickets.
- Strong functional knowledge of Procurement, Finance, and/or Supply Chain processes is preferred.
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