Full-Time

Payment Operations Specialist

Posted on 10/21/2025

Zip

Zip

1,001-5,000 employees

Streamlines spend controls with approval workflows

Compensation Overview

$70k - $80k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

Remote

In-office requirement: at least 3 days/week in SF; core hours 9:00–17:00 PST.

Category
Operations & Logistics (1)
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Minimum of 2 years working experience in a customer service role with payments experience
  • Must be able to work during business hours from Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5PM PST
  • You possess excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with experience working in a customer-facing role. You communicate early and often and know when to escalate to the payments leadership team.
  • Strong attention to detail and responsibility in managing daily tasks
  • Works well individually and in teams by sharing information and supporting colleagues
  • Ability to work independently and as a team member while using discretion in decision-making and sound judgment in problem-solving
  • Must be working from the office at least 3 business days a week
  • You will be required to participate in out-of-business hours or holidays customer support from time to time
  • Willingness to learn new skills
Responsibilities
  • Support our customers using Zendesk by communicating, troubleshooting, and resolving any payment issues
  • Partner with our customer and payment provider support teams to find a timely resolution to customers' problems
  • Answer and prioritize customer contact queues to provide the best customer experience within SLAs
  • Design and document effective payment operational processes with a keen eye for standardization and automation to enable the team to scale
  • Partner with our payment providers and cross-functional partners, including our Engineering & Product teams to resolve any issues impacting our payments products. While working toward a resolution, you will keep our clients and internal stakeholders up-to-date on the progress made
  • Support ad-hoc projects for the payment operations team

ZipHQ provides a subscription-based fintech platform that helps businesses manage spend controls. It integrates with existing systems and offers dynamic intake and approval workflows to streamline procurement, enforce compliance, and improve visibility into spending. The platform supports finance, procurement, IT, and legal teams by automating procurement processes, reducing duplicate vendors, and mitigating vendor risk, all through a user-friendly interface that encourages adoption. Unlike less integrated or harder-to-use tools, ZipHQ emphasizes cross-team collaboration, real-time spend visibility, and automated workflow enforcement. The company’s goal is to prevent cash leakage, increase efficiency, and minimize risk across an organization by giving finance teams strong oversight and easier procurement processes.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$371M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Cribl projects $3M annual savings through 10-15% cost reductions via smarter negotiations.
  • Unifi Aviation achieved 96% faster invoice coding with same headcount after Zip deployment.
  • Payment Risk AI flagged $200M risky invoices, 15x more likely to be fraudulent.

What critics are saying

  • Coupa-Jaggaer merger consolidates market with bundled pricing undercutting Zip's enterprise deals.
  • SAP Ariba AI Orchestrator automates intake-to-pay 25% faster natively for 120,000 SAP customers.
  • Gartner downgraded Zip from Visionary to Challenger May 2026, causing 30% pipeline loss.

What makes Zip unique

  • Only procurement orchestration platform in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites.
  • AI agents leverage full procurement context from intake to payment for 96% invoice coding accuracy.
  • Vendr partnership embeds $15B SaaS pricing benchmarks directly into Price Negotiation Agent workflows.

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Benefits

📈 Start-up equity

💸 401k plan

🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage

🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners

🚍 Commuter benefit

🚠 Team building events & happy hours

🌴 Unlimited PTO

💻 Shiny new Apple equipment

🪑 Generous office stipend for remote employees

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

-1%
Business Wire
Apr 1st, 2026
Zip hires Canva's former global head of IT as general manager of AI

Zip, an AI platform for enterprise procurement, has appointed Michael Denari as General Manager of AI. Denari joins from Canva, where he served as Global Head of IT and built the company's enterprise AI strategy across 5,000 employees. In his new role, Denari will lead Zip's AI business, including go-to-market strategy, revenue, customer success and internal AI transformation. He will also work with product and engineering teams on AI development. At Canva, Denari built and led the procurement function before creating and scaling a 110-person global IT organisation. He drove AI initiatives that transformed business processes and established Canva as Zip's first enterprise customer in 2021. Zip's platform has delivered over $6 billion in customer savings and serves hundreds of global enterprises including Anthropic, AMD and OpenAI.

Procurement Magazine
Mar 17th, 2026
Zip: AI in Procurement workshop.

Zip: AI in Procurement workshop. March 17, 2026 Join Zip at Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE: The US Summit to discover how intelligent automation can accelerate sourcing, reduce risk and drive value As procurement transitions from a transactional function to a strategic driver of value, the integration of AI has become a business imperative. Organisations today face the challenge of balancing speed and efficiency with the need for rigorous compliance and risk mitigation. Many procurement teams remain burdened by manual sourcing processes, fragmented proposal analysis and inconsistent pricing models. The result is a missed opportunity to leverage data for faster time to value and sustained cost savings. At Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE: The US Summit, a focused workshop with Zip will address these challenges, providing a roadmap for augmenting human expertise with cutting-edge AI. AI in Procurement * Date: April 21, 2026 * Time: 2pm ET * Location: Room 3 This workshop is designed for procurement and supply chain leaders responsible for automating workflows, optimising supplier matching and transforming procurement into a high-impact strategic asset. Driving efficiency through intelligent automation. Modern procurement requires moving beyond manual intervention to intelligent automation. By leveraging AI to analyse proposals and match suppliers, organisations can significantly accelerate their sourcing cycles while maintaining high standards of quality. The session will explore how to: * Automate complex sourcing workflows to increase operational speed * Analyse diverse vendor proposals with higher accuracy and less bias * Match the right suppliers to specific business needs using intelligent data Mitigating risk with deep analytical insight. AI provides the analytical depth necessary to ensure cost-effectiveness without compromising on security. Through advanced pricing optimisation and enhanced compliance monitoring, procurement teams can protect the bottom line while insulating the organisation from external threats. Participants will gain insight into: * Optimising pricing structures to unlock hidden cost savings * Improving compliance through automated risk detection * Reducing third-party risk across the entire supplier lifecycle Empowering teams to focus on strategic outcomes. High-quality AI integration should empower teams, not just automate tasks. When structured correctly, AI supports better decision-making, allowing procurement professionals to focus on high-level strategy and long-term planning. The session will show how to: * Augment human expertise with data-driven AI insights * Shorten time to value for new procurement initiatives * Shift from transactional tasks to strategic value creation Who should attend? This workshop is relevant for senior leaders, primarily CPOs, CFOs and VPs of Procurement or Finance, responsible for sourcing strategy, procurement operations and digital transformation. It is particularly valuable for organisations within high-complexity sectors, including technology (software, defence, telecom), financial services, healthcare and life sciences and retail, that are seeking to modernise their tech stack and reduce the manual overhead of source-to-pay processes. Attend this session to understand how AI can move procurement beyond simple transactions and turn it into a sustainable strategic advantage

Business Wire
Mar 4th, 2026
Zip hires ex-Salesforce and Ironclad sales leader Dallas Stonhaus as CSO to drive enterprise growth

Zip, an AI platform for enterprise procurement, has appointed Dallas Stonhaus as Chief Sales Officer to lead its global sales expansion. Stonhaus brings over 20 years of enterprise sales experience from Salesforce and Ironclad, where he served as Chief Sales Officer and helped grow revenue more than tenfold. The appointment comes as Zip accelerates its enterprise growth. In five years, the company has saved customers over $6 billion and secured clients including T-Mobile, OpenAI, LinkedIn and Snowflake. Zip recently became the youngest company named a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites. Backed by $371 million in funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, Zip launched over 50 AI agents last year and more than doubled headcount to over 700 employees.

Business Wire
Feb 19th, 2026
Zip named to Forbes Fintech 50 for second year running after saving customers over $6B

Zip, an AI platform for enterprise procurement, has been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list for the second consecutive year. The recognition follows a breakout year in which Zip was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites, the youngest company ever recognised in that category. The company launched over 50 specialised AI agents for autonomous procurement tasks and expanded its customer base by hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies. Zip's platform has saved customers more than $6 billion and processed hundreds of billions in spend across 7 million suppliers. Notable clients include OpenAI, which saves 1,400 hours annually, and Dollar Tree, which identified over $100 million in savings. Zip is backed by $371 million in funding at a $2.2 billion valuation.

Zip
Feb 19th, 2026
Zip makes the Forbes Fintech 50 for the second time in a row

Zip makes the Forbes Fintech 50 for the second time in a row. ZipHQ, Inc. is back on the list of most transformative fintech companies. Here's why. February 19th, 2026 Brooks Rocco Content Lead at Zip Table of Contents Zip has been named to the Forbes Fintech 50, now for the second year in a row. The list, compiled annually by Forbes reporters and editors, recognizes the most innovative private companies transforming finance through technology, and this year ZipHQ, Inc. were named in the 'The Future Of Wall Street And Enterprise' category. While ZipHQ, Inc. were thrilled to make the list last year, to be included again in 2026 proves that what ZipHQ, Inc. is building here at Zip truly has staying power. What's changed at Zip since last year. A lot, actually. Over the past year ZipHQ, Inc. launched more than 50 specialized AI agents that handle high-value tasks across procurement, finance, legal, IT, and security. ZipHQ, Inc. were named a Visionary in the Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Source-to-Pay Suites, the youngest company recognized. And ZipHQ, Inc. continued to grow its customer base across industries including telecom, financial services, retail, and technology. What the customers are actually seeing. To date, Zip has saved customers more than $6 billion and processed hundreds of billions in spend across more than 7 million suppliers. Some examples of customer success from the past year: ZipHQ, Inc. also expanded deployments at Snowflake, Anthropic, AMD, and Discover Financial, grew to over 700 employees globally, and stood up an Enterprise Transformation Office led by former Fortune 500 CPOs from UnitedHealth Group, MGM Resorts, and Sanofi. Why this recognition matters. Supplier spend is the second-largest line item for most companies, and the technology managing it has been largely unchanged for decades. Zip exists to change that, replacing fragmented tools and manual processes with a single AI platform that procurement teams and employees actually want to use. Being recognized by Forbes is a tremendous honor. Earning it with results customers can actually point to is even better. Brooks Rocco Content Lead at Zip Brooks Rocco is Content Lead at Zip, the world's leading procurement orchestration platform. With expertise in crafting data-driven strategies and a passion for elevating procurement, Brooks creates insightful, actionable content for finance and procurement leaders. When he's not shaping Zip's thought leadership, Brooks enjoys exploring innovative ways to connect brands with their audiences.

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