At Zuora, we help businesses grow smarter and adapt faster. Our platform powers modern business models — from subscriptions and usage-based pricing to AI-driven and outcome-based offerings — helping companies launch new products, automate complex billing, and unlock predictable, recurring revenue.
We’ve led the Subscription Economy for more than a decade. Now we’re evolving again by building the definitive platform for quote to cash and helping companies monetize their products and services with an adaptable, AI-ready foundation.
The OpportunityAs a Customer Solutions Engineer – Payments, you will partner closely with Account Executives to help customers modernize their payment strategies. You’ll engage with technical and business stakeholders to understand their payment architecture, identify opportunities for improvement, and demonstrate how Zuora can help optimize payment performance while reducing complexity.
This is a highly consultative role requiring deep expertise in enterprise payments and the ability to connect technical capabilities to measurable business outcomes.
- Serve as Zuora’s payments subject matter expert throughout the sales cycle.
- Partner with Account Executives to identify and develop opportunities within existing and prospective enterprise customers.
- Lead discovery sessions focused on payment architecture, gateway strategy, authorization performance, global expansion, and operational efficiency.
- Design solution architectures that support flexible payment ecosystems across multiple payment providers, gateways, processors, and payment methods.
- Deliver compelling technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and architecture reviews tailored to executive, business, and technical audiences.
- Advise customers on best practices for payment orchestration, intelligent routing, payment optimization, tokenization, payment resilience, and global payment acceptance.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Product Marketing, Partnerships, and Engineering to represent customer requirements and influence future product capabilities.
- Develop reusable solution assets, reference architectures, and technical enablement materials to scale payments expertise across the organization.
- Support strategic RFPs, proof-of-concepts, and complex enterprise evaluations.
- 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Solution Consulting, or Solutions Architecture supporting enterprise software.
- Deep domain expertise in enterprise payments gained through experience with a Payment Service Provider (PSP), payment gateway, payment orchestration platform, payment processor, or related payments technology company.
- Strong understanding of payment ecosystems, including PSPs, gateways, acquirers, processors, card networks, payment rails, embedded payments, digital wallets, and alternative payment methods at global scale.
- Experience designing and discussing complex payment architectures for enterprise high volume B2C / B2SMB customers.
- Knowledge of payment optimization strategies, including intelligent routing, authorization optimization, tokenization, payment recovery, and payment resilience.
- Familiarity with REST APIs, webhooks, and modern integration patterns.
- Outstanding presentation, communication, and customer-facing consulting skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for executive audiences.
- Experience supporting global enterprise customers across multiple industries.
- Knowledge of subscription business models and recurring billing.
- Experience integrating payments with billing, ERP, CRM, or commerce platforms.
- Familiarity with PCI DSS, PSD2/SCA, and global payment regulations.
- Experience working with SaaS platforms and cloud-based enterprise applications.
You’ll play a key role in shaping how enterprise businesses modernize their payment infrastructure while working alongside industry-leading teams in monetization, billing, and finance. As payment strategies continue to evolve, you’ll help customers unlock new opportunities to improve revenue performance, expand globally, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
BenefitsZuora offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support ZEOs’ wellbeing, growth, and flexibility. While specific offerings may vary by country, we typically provide:
- Competitive compensation, variable bonus and performance-based reward opportunities, and retirement programs
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous, flexible time off, plus paid holidays, wellness days, and a company-wide year-end break
- Paid parental leave (including fully paid leave for eligible ZEOs, subject to local policy)
- Learning & development stipend to support ongoing growth
- Opportunities to volunteer and give back, including charitable donation matching where available
- Mental wellbeing resources and support
*Benefits may vary by location; details will be shared during the interview process
#ZEOLife at Zuora
ZEOs (our employees) are empowered to take ownership, challenge the status quo, and make a real impact. We:
- Collaborate deeply across teams and regions
- Learn constantly and iterate often
- Build an inclusive, high-performance culture where people feel inspired, connected, and valued
Think, be and do you.
At Zuora, different perspectives, experiences, and contributions matter — everyone counts.
Zuora is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of, and consider individuals seeking employment with Zuora without regard to, race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
The base pay details represent the annualized salary range for the posted position. While we share a comprehensive range, a candidate’s final base salary will fall within these guidelines and will be determined based on multiple factors including but not limited to: qualifications of the candidate, job related knowledge, prior related experience, specific and unique skills, the location of the role, internal equity and internal budget. Base pay is only one element of Zuora’s Total Rewards Package. Additional elements may also include bonus/variable compensation, equity and comprehensive benefits, more details found here.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Solution Consulting, or Solutions Architecture supporting enterprise software
- Deep domain expertise in enterprise payments via a PSP, payment gateway, payment orchestration platform, payment processor, or related payments technology company
- Strong understanding of payment ecosystems including PSPs, gateways, acquirers, processors, card networks, payment rails, embedded payments, digital wallets, and alternative payment methods at global scale
- Experience designing and discussing complex payment architectures for enterprise high volume B2C / B2SMB customers
- Knowledge of payment optimization strategies including intelligent routing, authorization optimization, tokenization, payment recovery, and payment resilience
- Familiarity with REST APIs, webhooks, and modern integration patterns
- Outstanding presentation, communication, and customer-facing consulting skills
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for executive audiences
- Experience supporting global enterprise customers across multiple industries
- Knowledge of subscription business models and recurring billing
- Experience integrating payments with billing, ERP, CRM, or commerce platforms
- Familiarity with PCI DSS, PSD2/SCA, and global payment regulations
- Experience working with SaaS platforms and cloud-based enterprise applications
Zuora Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zuora and has not been reviewed or approved by Zuora.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as up to six months of fully paid time for all parents globally, signaling a standout family support policy. Feedback suggests this benefit is a prominent part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off offerings include flexible or unlimited PTO for U.S. salaried roles, wellness days, and a company‑wide winter break. Feedback suggests the breadth of options supports meaningful time away when teams enable it.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs such as RSUs and an ESPP with a discount are highlighted as meaningful components of total rewards. Feedback suggests these ownership programs enhance perceived competitiveness across several roles.
Zuora Insights
What We Do
At Zuora, we do Modern Business. We’re helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for customers, companies and ultimately the planet. It’s an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first (building ongoing relationships instead of one-time product sales) and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite, we are transforming all industries and working with the world’s most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences.
Why Work With Us
As an industry pioneer, our work is constantly evolving and challenging us in new ways that require us to think differently, iterate often and learn constantly. Our people, whom we call “ZEOs" are empowered to take on a mindset of ownership and work together in collaboration to make what’s next possible for our customers, community and the world.
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