Product Manager, Onboarding

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. Please note we're looking for someone who is willing and able to come into either our downtown Toronto office on a hybrid basis (3 days /week). YOUR ROLE As a founding Product Manager on the Onboarding team, you will define how Zip accelerates customer onboarding, activation, and expansion through AI-powered experiences. You will build the systems that turn product launches into sustained usage – compressing time-to-go-live, reducing configuration friction, and increasing customer velocity across the procurement lifecycle. You will transform onboarding, versioning, enablement, and adoption into scalable, intelligent, high-throughput product experiences. You will partner closely with Design, Engineering, Solutions Consulting, Customer Success, and Documentation to remove operational bottlenecks, improve discoverability, and make adoption truly self-serve at scale. YOU WILL - As a founding PM on the Onboarding team, you will define how Zip accelerates onboarding, activation, and expansion in its next phase of growth. - Build AI-powered onboarding and configuration systems that reduce manual setup, detect issues proactively, and dramatically compress time-to-go-live. - Own infrastructure such as sandbox environments, workflow versioning and promotion, and API/MCP/export frameworks – enabling customers to iterate safely while increasing deployment velocity. - Define and evolve an AI-powered product adoption tooling and framework that improves feature discoverability, delivers contextual in-product guidance, and proactively surfaces expansion opportunities. - Partner with Documentation and Education teams to embed AI-native guidance directly into the product experience – including dynamic “Getting Started” flows, troubleshooting assistance, and contextual recommendations. - Work cross-functionally with Customer Success and Solutions Consulting teams to build reusable systems and processes that power scalable onboarding, rollout automation, and operational efficiency across the organization. QUALIFICATIONS - 2-4+ years of product management and 4-8+ years of overall professional experience; experience working on SaaS onboarding, activation or platform tooling is a plus. - Ability to break down ambiguous operational and configuration challenges into structured systems and scalable solutions. - Demonstrated comfort owning operationally intensive product areas – including migrations, versioning, enablement workflows, and cross-functional coordination – and turning repetitive processes into scalable frameworks. - Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across product, engineering, design, sales, customer success, and documentation teams, influencing without authority. - Strong analytical skills and comfort defining measurable adoption and growth metrics. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences. - Bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment where operational rigor and product thinking intersect. PERKS & BENEFITS At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work. - 📈 Start-up equity - 🦷 100% health, vision & dental coverage options - 🍽️ Catered breakfast, lunch, & dinner - 🌴 Flexible PTO - 🏋️‍♀️ ClassPass membership - 🚍 Monthly commuter benefit - 🚠 Team building events & happy hours - 💻 Home office stipend - 🛜 Phone/internet reimbursement - 🏠 Hybrid model + 5 flexible remote days per quarter - 🍼 Paid parental leave - 🐣 Fertility benefits - 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - 🤖 Unlimited AI token usage We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!