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Senior Solution Engineer (Pre-Sales)

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Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.

Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added 5 weeks ago

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CET ±2

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Full-time

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Senior

Category

Sales

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Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend.

Remote flexibility

Region Restricted

Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Germany, United Kingdom.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - Germany, London, Remote - Munich, Remote"

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  • Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
  • Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a requirement

  • “Fluency in German (C1/C2 level or native proficiency) is required.”

Written as a nice-to-have

  • “Experience using REST APIs for enterprise integration, ideally with ticketing, ERP, or CLM systems”
  • “Integration or development experience is a plus - especially with using REST APIs and middleware tools.”

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About the role

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 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

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

Self-starter and quickly able to grasp new technology

Willing and able to travel to onsites/customer meetings

Fluency in German (C1/C2 level or native proficiency) is required. This role involves working closely with German speaking customers and stakeholders across the DACH region.

Nice to Haves

Requirements

  • ·Lead, scope, and partner with Post-Sales to deliver POCs
  • ·Partner with the Sales team to deliver on our sales objectives.
  • ·Deliver feedback to help us grow and evolve - on processes and products.
  • ·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

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
  • ·💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Zip, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (CET ±2).
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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