Enterprise Solution Engineer (Pre-Sales) at Zip (Sydney, Australia)
Zip· Sydney, Australia·
Role details
Start-Up Equity · Team Building Events · Flexible PTO · Apple Equipment · Home Office Budget
Zip at a glance
The AI platform for enterprise procurement, orchestrating every purchase from intake to pay.
Zip is a procurement orchestration platform that catches every purchase request the moment an employee makes one and routes it through approvals, policy checks, and payment across procurement, finance, legal, and IT. It combines intake-to-pay workflows with AI agents that automate the actual procurement work, aiming to be the single system of record for enterprise spend.
$371M raised · latest: Series D · $190M · Oct 2024 · backed by BOND, DST Global, Adams Street, Alkeon
Summary
Serve as the primary pre-sales technical point of contact for the Zip solution suite, acting as a champion for prospects to demonstrate value and drive deals to closure. Partner with sales teams to conduct discovery, build custom demos, and lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) while ensuring seamless post-sales delivery.
Job description
ABOUT ZIP
Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.
The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend. Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
YOUR ROLE
As a Zip Enterprise Solution Engineer, you are the primary pre-sales technical point of contact for the Zip solution suite. Your role is to be a champion for Zip, helping our prospects understand how our application will deliver value to their organization, and where Zip fits with their procurement and technical landscape. You are a partner in selling, fostering collaborative relationships with account executives and sales managers to drive deals to closure.
You are a trusted advisor to our prospective customers, giving them confidence that Zip can address their pain points, and helping translate their needs to our post-sales solutions consultants to ensure a successful deployment. You are a subject matter expert on our solution’s capabilities and our roadmap. You funnel customer feedback to influence our product development efforts and help our sales partners understand how our newly developed solutions or enhancements are most effectively communicated.
You are an innovative problem solver - applying that skill to both developing solutions for our customers as well as driving the growth of our Pre-Sales organization. You provide input and feedback to adapt and improve our sales motion as it evolves with our growth.
YOU WILL
- Actively contribute to Zip’s sales efforts by supporting prospective customer-facing conversations, effectively conducting discovery, demonstrating our solutions, handling questions, and overcoming objections to help our prospects see the value in choosing Zip.
- Own responsibility for responding to customer asks, including follow-up questions, demos, RFx and IT security questionnaires.
- Build and develop custom demos that match customer requirements
- Lead, scope, and partner with Post-Sales to deliver POCs
- Partner with the Sales team to deliver on our sales objectives.
- Partner with the Post-Sales Solutions Consultants to ensure our customers experience a seamless transition from sale to onboarding - communicating their needs and objectives with proper expectations set for successful delivery.
- Deliver feedback to help us grow and evolve - on processes and products.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience in a solution selling environment or in a similar role with transferable skills
- Experience selling to F500 clients and cross functional decision makers including C-level executives
- Strong solution selling skills - able to articulate the value of software solutions to customers, with messaging focused on how a solution addresses customers’ core pain points in a way that differentiates the solution
- Familiarity with procurement and billing/AP space
- Excellent discovery skills - able to lead customers through focused conversations to uncover pain, value, and our path to sales success
- Knowledge of key principles of software integrations, including integration platforms and APIs.
- Has a strong solutioning mindset - focused on how to help customers envision how our solution meets their needs
- Skilled in troubleshooting technical issues
- Self-starter and quickly able to grasp new technology
NICE TO HAVES
- Experience with demoing, implementing or administering key applications such as ERPs (Oracle, Ariba, Workday), CLMs, GRC, procurement or AP automation platforms.
- Industry and / or solutioning experience with P2P / Fin-tech tools related to procurement, AP automation or payments.
- Integration or development experience is a plus - especially with using REST APIs and middleware tools.
PERKS & BENEFITS
At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.
- 📈 Start-up equity
- 🚠 Team building events
- 🌴 Flexible PTO
- 💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget
We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!
Why work at Zip
- Culture & Values: Emphasizes speed, collaboration ("Win as one"), and a bias for action ("Be the underdog," "Go upstream"). Described as a highly cross-functional and supportive environment where employees are encouraged to "dream big and build even bigger."
- Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy: Based in San Francisco, CA. The careers page mentions "catered in-office meals" and a "commuter benefit," suggesting a strong in-office or hybrid culture.
- Notable Perks: Start-up equity, health/vision/dental coverage, flexible PTO, generous home office stipend, parental leave, well-being resources, 401k plan, and shiny new Apple equipment.
- Engineering Culture: Product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta. The engineering blog is highlighted, and the team is described as turning concepts into high-quality realities quickly. The company is building a "Developer Platform" team, indicating investment in internal tooling and developer experience.
- Growth Opportunity: With 104 active job postings and rapid headcount growth, there is significant opportunity for career advancement and impact in a high-growth, well-funded company.