{"id":1199672,"url":"https://alion.io/job/coupa-software-sr-director-ai-delivery-11891","title":"Sr Director - AI Delivery - 11891","company":{"id":8573,"name":"Coupa Software","domain":"coupa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/coupa","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":87,"open_postings":9,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.333,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":60,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Mexico City, Mexico"],"countries":["MX"],"hiring_countries":["MX"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":171000,"max_usd":289000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":11},"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Gemini","optional":true},{"name":"Vertex AI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T04:57:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T21:13:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"The Impact of a Senior Director, AI Delivery at Coupa:\nThe Senior Director, AI Delivery leads the engineering organization responsible for designing, building, deploying, and operating enterprise AI solutions across the company. This leader owns the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for AI initiatives, partnering closely with business stakeholders, AI Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to transform business opportunities into production ready AI capabilities.\nThe role is accountable for execution excellence, engineering quality, delivery predictability, operational stability, governance compliance, and business value realization across a portfolio of AI agents, automations, and intelligent workflows. The focus is on delivering enterprise grade AI products that are scalable, secure, measurable, and reusable.\nWhat You'll Do:\nAI Delivery Leadership\nLead the enterprise AI Delivery Engineering organization.\nBuild and scale a high-performing team of AI Engineers, AI Solution Architects and AI Operations\nEstablish delivery standards, engineering practices, and operating models for AI solution development.\nOwn execution across multiple concurrent AI programs and business domains.\nEnterprise AI Solution Delivery\nLead delivery of enterprise AI solutions including:\nAI Agents\nAgentic Workflows\nAI-powered business automations\nConversational AI\nKnowledge assistants\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions\nMulti-agent orchestration\nEnsure solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and reusable.\nEngineering Excellence\nEstablish engineering standards for:\nPrompt engineering\nAgent development\nTool integration\nMCP implementation\nAPI integrations\nAI workflow orchestration\nCode quality\nReusable frameworks\nSecure development practices\nDrive adoption of reusable AI components and engineering accelerators.\nDelivery & Portfolio Management\nOwn delivery execution across the AI portfolio including:\nCapacity planning\nPrioritization\nRoadmaps\nResource allocation\nMilestone management\nExecutive reporting\nRisk management\nDelivery metrics\nEnsure predictable execution across multiple AI initiatives.\nAI Operations (Run)\nEstablish operational excellence for production AI systems by overseeing:\nProduction monitoring\nAgent health\nIncident management\nPerformance optimization\nModel performance\nPrompt optimization\nCost optimization\nAI observability\nDrive continuous improvement after deployment.\nGovernance & Responsible AI\nCreate & Manage the AI Governance council, partnering with Security, and Compliance teams to ensure:\nResponsible AI practices\nSecurity reviews\nPrivacy compliance\nHuman-in-the-loop controls\nAuditability\nModel governance\nRisk assessments\nRegulatory compliance\nEnsure governance is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nCross-functional Leadership\nPartner closely with:\nAI Strategy\nEnterprise Architecture\nBusiness Systems\nData & Analytics\nSecurity\nBusiness Product Owners\nLegal\nProcurement\nVendor Partners\nAlign technology delivery with business priorities.\nFinancial & Vendor Management\nManage delivery budgets and strategic partners by:\nOverseeing vendor performance\nManaging delivery costs\nDriving AI platform optimization\nTracking consumption and FinOps metrics\nMeasuring ROI\nOptimizing engineering capacity\nOrganizational Leadership\nBuild a world-class AI delivery organization through:\nTalent development\nWorkforce planning\nCoaching and mentoring\nOrganizational design\nHiring\nPerformance management\nEngineering culture\nInnovation\nWhat You Will Bring to Coupa:\n12-15+ years of experience leading enterprise technology organizations.\n7+ years managing engineering 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