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Enterprise Solution Engineer (PreSales)

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Minimum of 5 years experience in solution selling or similar roles.
  • Proven ability to sell to Fortune 500 clients and engage with C-level executives.
  • Strong understanding of software solutions, APIs, and integration principles.
  • Excellent discovery and communication skills to identify customer pain points.

Requirements:

  • Support sales efforts through customer discovery, demos, and handling inquiries.
  • Respond to customer requests including demos, RFx, and security questionnaires.
  • Develop custom demos and lead proof-of-concept projects with post-sales teams.
  • Collaborate with sales and post-sales teams to ensure smooth customer onboarding.

Job description

The simple task of buying software, services, or tools at work has become hopelessly complicated at even the most innovative companies in the world. Today, enterprises spend $120T+ per year globally (>30 times larger than annual consumer ecommerce spend) and rely on vendors more than ever before to run their businesses.

Our cofounders started Zip in 2020 to address this seemingly intractable problem with a purposebuilt procurement platform that provides a simple, consumergrade user experience. Within the last 4 years, Zip has created a new category and developed the leading solution in this $50B+ TAM space. Today, the world’s leading companies like OpenAI, Snowflake, Anthropic, Coinbase, and Prudential rely on Zip to manage billions of dollars in spend.

We have a worldclass team coming from categorydefining companies like Airbnb, Meta, Stripe, Salesforce, Apple, and Google. With a $2.2 billion valuation and $370 million in funding from Y Combinator, Tiger Global, BOND, DST Global, and CRV, we’re focused on developing cuttingedge technology, expanding into new global markets, and—above all–driving incredible value for our customers. Join us!

Your Role

As a Zip Enterprise Solution Engineer, you are the primary presales 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 postsales 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 PreSales 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 customerfacing 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 followup questions, demos, RFx and IT security questionnaires.

  • Build and develop custom demos that match customer requirements

  • Lead, scope, and partner with PostSales to deliver POCs

  • Partner with the Sales team to deliver on our sales objectives.

  • Partner with the PostSales 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 Clevel 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 billingAP 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

      • Selfstarter 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 Fintech tools related to procurement, AP automation or payments.

          • Integration or development experience is a plus especially with using REST APIs and middleware tools.

            • The salary range for this role is $180,000 $210,000 OTE. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of jobrelated factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.

              Perks & Benefits

              At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

              • 📈 Startup equity

              • 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage

              • 🚍 Commuter benefit

              • 🚠 Team building events & happy hours

              • 🌴 Unlimited PTO

              • 💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget

              • 💸 401k plan

                • Were looking to hire Zippers 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 doesnt 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!

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