The Role
Provide second-level technical support for Japanese enterprise customers using Coupa's products, focusing on issue resolution, ticket handling, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 Technical Support Engineer at Coupa:
As a Technical Support Engineer, you play a critical role in delivering a world-class support experience for Japanese enterprise customers leveraging Coupa’s industry-leading procurement and spend management platform. You will be part of a dynamic global team focused on resolving issues, sharing knowledge, and driving customer success. In this role, you will leverage a curious and sharp technical acumen to provide Japanese customers with expert guidance on best practices. Your primary focus will be direct customer support, ticket handling and issue resolution. You will be customer facing and work closely with technical and nontechnical stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve second-line support requests in a timely and effective manner.
What You'll Do:
- Provide second-level techno-functional support across Coupa’s suite of products, including core procurement applications and acquired solutions aligned to your product vertical.
- Proficiently handle customer issues and escalations for production environments within guidelines across ticket Severity levels. Gather and record detailed information from customers to assist in problem identification and resolution, exercise independent thinking in trouble-resolution skills.
- Develop a strong understanding of your assigned customers’ business use cases and help them maximize the value of the Coupa platform.
- Handle escalations and provide regular updates to internal and external stakeholders in alignment with Service Level Targets (SLTs).
- Identify recurring issues and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot a variety of issues ranging from integration challenges, workflow errors, user configuration problems, to API-related incidents.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Cloud Operations and Customer Success teams to ensure high-impact issues are resolved thoroughly and promptly.
- Contribute to the knowledge base by creating high-quality articles, FAQs, and documentation to help scale support and reduce incoming ticket volume.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Coupa releases and complete all mandatory CoupaU certifications and training programs.
- Occasionally assist with onboarding support or training sessions for key customers during rollouts or expansions.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- Must be a fast learner, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- At-least 3 years of Enterprise level technical support experience, ideally in a SaaS or procurement software environment. Should have worked at length / interacted with Japanese customers.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Japanese languages at all levels of an organization, internally and externally.
- Should be able to articulate / interact in the Japanese language with ease and confidence.
- Strong customer service mindset with the ability to communicate clearly and empathetically.
- Should understand and be conversant with the Japanese work culture and customs.
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix-based systems, basic networking concepts, and application architecture (e.g., web servers, middleware, databases).
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot using tools such as:
- ○ SQL (for reading data/logs),
- ○ XML/HTML (for integrations and config files),
- ○ REST APIs (for basic data validation or testing integrations).
- Familiarity with procurement or financial processes will be an added advantage.
- Good to have working knowledge of Coupa’s suite of products.
- Excellent documentation skills. Experience using ticketing systems like Zendesk, ServiceNow, or Salesforce Service Cloud will be expected.
- Comfortable working in a 24x5 schedule, with occasional on-call rotations for weekends or public holidays
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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The Company
What We Do
Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.
Why Work With Us
At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.
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