Principal Solutions Delivery Manager
Listed on 2026-08-30
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IT/Tech
IT Project Manager, IT Consultant, Change Management -
Management
IT Project Manager, Change Management
Principal Solutions Delivery Manager
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 Linked In Top Startups.
We are seeking a Principal Solutions Delivery Manager to act as a senior implementation leader within our Solution Consulting organization. While our Implementation Managers and Solutions Architects guide customers through day-to-day deployments, the Solutions Director steps in as the strategic anchor for our largest, most complex, and highest-stakes enterprise implementations.
In this role, you will be responsible for three core pillars:
Taking ownership of implementation success for strategic, global, and highly complex customer deployments (multi-entity, multi-ERP integrations, complex change management).
Re-architecting and refining our implementation methodologies, governance frameworks, and delivery playbooks to support hyper-growth.
Mentoring, coaching, and upskilling a team of talented Implementation Managers and Solutions Architects, cultivating the next generation of professional services leaders at Zip.
If you are an experienced consulting or professional services leader who loves combining big-picture strategy with hands-on technical problem-solving, we want to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Lead Our Most Complex Projects:
Serve as the Executive Sponsor and senior implementation authority on strategic, Fortune 500, and highly customized enterprise deployments. Partner directly with C-suite executives and key customer stakeholders to navigate organizational complexity, mitigate deployment risk, and ensure time-to-value. - Define Implementation Strategy & Playbooks:
Evaluate current delivery methodologies and design scalable, repeatable processes for discovery, solution architecture, workflow design, and testing. Drive standardization across the team without sacrificing flexibility. - Drive Leadership Development:
Act as a player-coach and mentor to Senior Implementation Managers and Solutions Architects. Provide strategic guidance on project governance, stakeholder management, and technical delivery while fostering a high-performance, collaborative team culture. - Cross-Functional Executive Alignment:
Partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success leadership. Translate complex implementation learnings and customer feedback into actionable product roadmap inputs and pre-sales scoping improvements. - Establish Governance & Quality Standards:
Implement rigorous project health monitoring, risk escalation frameworks, and quality assurance standards to maintain exceptional customer satisfaction (CSAT) and net revenue retention (NRR).
What We're Looking For
- Senior Implementation
Experience:
10+ years of experience in enterprise software implementation, professional services, solutions architecture, or management consulting—with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership or director-level capacity at a SaaS or B2B enterprise technology company. - Proven Enterprise Mastery:
Demonstrated success overseeing complex, multi-workstream deployments for large-scale enterprises (e.g., integrations with major ERPs like Workday, Net Suite, SAP, or Oracle; global rollouts; complex compliance and security requirements). - Strategic Process Builder: A track record…
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