AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Procurement/Legal

Zip•San Francisco, CA

1d•$130,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement, designed for collaboration between humans and AI agents. The company helps businesses streamline procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers using AI agents, enabling faster innovation. Zip's platform is trusted by major enterprises like T-Mobile, OpenAI, and AMD, having facilitated over $8 billion in savings and $500 billion in processed spend. The Zip team comprises product leaders from top tech companies and former procurement leaders from various industries. Zip has secured $371 million in funding, reaching a $2.2 billion valuation, and has received recognition from Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and LinkedIn.

Requirements

3+ years working inside enterprise procurement or legal teams
Direct experience building with AI: AI agents or automated workflows of your own work using Claude, N8N, Make, Zapier, or similar. You can show something you built to the team.
A track record of owning complex customer engagements independently, from scoping through delivery, with accountability for outcomes rather than just outputs.
Enough technical fluency to build integrations, read API documentation, and diagnose workflow failures without needing an engineer on call.
Procurement or legal domain knowledge to earn credibility quickly with an AP Director, CPO, or CLO.

Nice To Haves

Formal credentials (CPP, CPSM, CPA, or equivalent) are a plus, not a requirement.

Responsibilities

Embed with enterprise customers to understand their procurement and adjacent workflows at the process level: how work actually moves, where decisions break down, and where the highest-ROI problems sit.
Build and deploy AI agent solutions using Zip's AppStudio and AI infrastructure, configured to the customer's specific environment and data, not off-the-shelf.
Own the customer relationship and manage parallel workstreams across a small portfolio of accounts, keeping delivery on track and stakeholder trust high.
Surface the next problem worth solving before the customer can articulate it, with the commercial instinct to understand how that expands contract value.
Produce architecture documentation that captures what was built, why, and what it would take to generalize across other accounts.
Feed structured learnings back to product and engineering so the solutions you build make the platform more repeatable over time.
Represent Zip on-site at customer locations when required, running live testing and stakeholder sessions against real data and real workflows.