Full-Time
Founding Enterprise Architect
Updated on 8/1/2026
Zip
1,001-5,000 employees
Streamlines spend controls with approval workflows
No salary listed
London, UK
Hybrid
Approximately 30% travel across EMEA is required.
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- At least 15 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, pre-sales engineering, or product roles at business-to-business software as a service, integration platform as a service, or enterprise resource planning/system-of-record vendors.
- Knowledge of the full intake-to-pay lifecycle and how data moves between systems.
- Understanding of application programming interfaces, data models, and integration patterns across SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, Oracle, Workday, Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, and other enterprise resource planning systems.
- Hands-on fluency with integration architecture and middleware, including MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato, REST APIs, event-driven patterns, and extract-transform-load.
- Proven success selling into or implementing at Fortune 500 or FTSE 100 customers across multiple EMEA geographies.
- TOGAF, Zachman, or IBM certification along with enterprise architecture experience.
- A track record of owning requests for proposals, security reviews, and proofs of concept at enterprise scale.
- Comfort operating as the senior technical voice with chief information officers, chief financial officers, and chief procurement officers.
- Act as the senior technical voice on strategic pursuits, lead discovery with customer chief technology officers, chief information officers, and chief procurement officers, and close the architectural gap between customer landscapes and Zip.
- Create foundational enterprise architecture assets, including customer system landscape templates, reference architectures, integration capability matrices, security and compliance packets, and objection response libraries.
- Lead the technical story for integrating Zip with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, Oracle, Workday, NetSuite, Coupa, and adjacent systems.
- Translate customer landscapes into credible integration plans using Zip’s proprietary middleware.
- Guide customers through EMEA-specific e-invoicing mandates, including Peppol, France Chorus Pro, Italy SDI, and Germany’s business-to-business mandate, as well as GDPR, DORA, and multi-entity and multi-currency rollouts.
- Translate customer requirements into clear product inputs and influence roadmap prioritization with evidence.
- Coach Solution Engineers and Account Executives on technical positioning, objection handling, and executive-level architectural conversations.
- Experience standing up a function, team, or regional practice from the ground up.
- Working knowledge of EMEA e-invoicing mandates and regulatory regimes, including GDPR and DORA.
- Experience at a category-defining, high-growth software as a service company or Big Four consulting experience.
- French, German, or Spanish language skills are a plus.
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
- Customers demand real-time spend visibility across requests, POs, and invoices.
- Budget-aware routing helps prevent overruns before commitments are made.
- Centralized intake improves compliance and can drive 90%+ PO-backed spend.
What critics are saying
- Coupa bundles approvals, sourcing, and spend management inside one enterprise suite.
- SAP Ariba and Oracle win when buyers standardize on ERP-native procurement.
- ServiceNow and AI procurement agents can absorb Zip's workflow layer.
What makes Zip unique
- Zip provides a single front door for employee purchase and vendor requests.
- Its workflow routes approvals across finance, legal, IT, and security.
- It integrates with ERP and P2P systems without replacing them.
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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
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↓ -1%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.
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
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.
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 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.