# Sean Fernandes

> Product at Coupa Software

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/seanfernandes

Product Manager at Coupa Software, improving the Buyer-Supplier relationship for millions of users.

Dedicated to building powerful products that solve real problems.

Holds American and Portuguese citizenship, able to work in the US or EU.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Manager @ Coupa
Jan 2025 – Present
- Product owner for Coupa’s Supplier Portal, which manages the buyer-supplier relationship for millions of users on the Coupa network
- Continuing to drive growth through additional value add functionalities focused on larger suppliers, which became the majority of revenue growth at 6 months post launch

### Product Manager @ Coupa
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Mateo, California, United States
- Led product launch of Coupa’s first supplier monetization products
- In 2024, delivered 160% user growth YoY with targeted, tightly scoped features
- Developed Product-Led Growth functionalities that now account for ~80% of paid subscription conversions

### Associate Product Manager @ Coupa
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo, California
- Created and managed internal SQL dashboards for product team analytics, becoming the data expert for Coupa’s Supplier org
- Led improvements to Coupa’s internal Supplier Discovery search tool, doubling user impressions over the course of a year

### Product Manager Intern @ Coupa
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Mateo, California
- Owned research and design process for an upcoming feature release 
- Developed design doc and presented my feature to internal stakeholders
- Worked alongside engineers and other PMs to improve on existing features

### Graduate Student @ UCSC SET Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Santa Cruz, California, United States
- Developed prototype social VR interventions to improve group collaboration and teamwork in VR space
- Conducted research to investigate ability of prototypes to improve performance in problem solving tasks
- Wrote Master's thesis on this research

### Product Management Intern @ AutoX Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California
- Developed and led foundational user experience research on feature designs 
- Explored user behaviors and attitudes surrounding autonomous delivery
- Collaborated with COO and engineering team to plan feedback strategy
- Created promotional materials for university recruiting events

### Lab Research Assistant @ SPIN Lab UBC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, British Columbia
- Designed low degree-of-freedom robot prototypes for emotional expression
- Formulated expressive behaviors for robot designs
- Conducted informal evaluation of expressive potential

### Augmented Reality UX Design intern @ Aromni
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Lisbon Area, Portugal
- Created app concepts to promote and encourage user-generated AR content
- Defined interaction design and layout for conceptual mobile AR app

### Co-Innovation and Prototyping Intern @ CableLabs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA
- Conducted analyses of near future devices for a mobile UX demo space
- Designed and directed inaugural demo at a major industry conference
- Led executives from Comcast, Time Warner, and others through demo

### UX Product Design and Research Lead @ UEGroup
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Jose CA
- Responsible for design and user research for an original mobile game
- Collaborated with engineers and designers to drive usability improvements
- Delivered data-driven recommendations based on user studies
- Collaborated with developers to apply user research insights to game design

### Interaction Design and User Research Intern @ UEGroup
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
- Developed concepts and wireframes for intuitive Call of Duty menu redesign
- Designed experiments to gather insights from multiple use types
- Conducted multiple rounds of user experience testing for validation
- Coded interactive Mac prototype of menu driven by PS4 controller
- Presented work to executives at Infinity Ward Studio in Los Angeles


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computational Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Cognitive Science
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Cognitive Systems
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-fernandes

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Last updated: 2026-04-07