Enterprise Solution Engineer (Pre-Sales)

Zip; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Start-up equity

Health, vision & dental coverage

Team building events & happy hours

Unlimited PTO

Apple equipment plus home office预算

Job summary

Zip is seeking a Solutions Engineer to be the primary pre-sales technical contact, championing Zip across EMEA and aligning procurement software with customers' technical landscapes. You will collaborate with account executives and sales managers to drive deals to closure, translate customer needs to post-sales solutions, and influence product direction.

As a trusted advisor, you will conduct technical discovery, deliver demos and proofs of concepts, and guide architectural recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a solution selling or similar role.
• Ability to articulate the value of software solutions to customers.
• Excellent presentation and poise in front of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to establish trust and influence key decision makers.
• Strong discovery skills to uncover pain and value.
• Experience using REST APIs for enterprise integration with ERP/CRM/CLM systems.
• Willingness to travel to client sites.
• Live within commutable distance of London.

Responsibilities

• Support prospective customer conversations, discovery, demos, questions, and objections across EMEA.
• Own responses to customer questions, demos, RFx and questionnaires.
• Partner with the Sales team to deliver on sales objectives.
• Conduct technical discovery meetings to document and analyze business and technical requirements.
• Validate and educate customers on integration strategies that meet business needs.
• Partner with the Post-Sales team to ensure a seamless transition from sale to onboarding.
• Provide feedback to help improve processes and products.

Skills

Solution selling

Presentation & comms

Stakeholder management

REST API integration

Travel readiness

London commute ready

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 Solutions 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 organisation, 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 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 will be an integral part of the success for both our customers and Sales Team by performing technical discovery qualification, delivering product demonstrations and Proof of Concepts, delivering technical workshops, and making architectural recommendations. As a hardworking technologist and customer advocate, you will connect the dots between the technical solution to the business outcomes for the customer.

You Will

• Actively contribute to Zip’s sales efforts across EMEA by supporting prospective customer-facing conversations, conducting discovery, demonstrating our solutions, handling questions, and overcoming objections

• Own responsibility for responding to customer questions, demos, RFx and questionnaires

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

• Conduct technical discovery meetings to document, analyze, clarify business and technical requirements to support detailed solution proposal

• Validate and educate prospects on integration strategies that meet their business needs and capabilities of the platforms in scope

• Partner with the Post-Sales team to ensure a seamless transition from sale to onboarding

• Speak up and provide feedback to help us improve processes and products

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a solution selling environment or in a similar role with transferable skills

• 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

• Excellent presentation and composure abilities in front of all levels of technical and non-technical audiences

• A skillset to establish trust with clients, and the ability to influence key decision makers

• Excellent discovery skills - able to lead customers through focused conversations to uncover pain, value, and our path to sales success

• Experience using REST APIs for enterprise integration, ideally with ticketing, ERP, or CLM systems

• Ability to travel as needed and to work flexible hours

• Self-starter and quickly able to grasp new technology

• Live within commutable distance of our London office

• Willing and able to travel to onsites/customer meetings

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with procurement and billing/AP space

Perks & Benefits

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

• Start-up equity

• Health, vision & dental coverage

• Team building events & happy hours

• Unlimited PTO

• Apple equipment plus home office budget

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.