Welcome to our "Day in the Life" series, where we sit down with engineers across Zip to learn about their daily routines, current projects, and quirks. Today, we’re chatting with Marion, an Engineering Manager on the Procure to Payments (P2P) Expansion team!
Tell us a bit about yourself - your role, team, and how long you've been at Zip.
Name: Marion
Role, Team, Location: Engineering Manager, P2P Expansion, San Francisco
How long have you been at Zip: 3 years
Walk us through a typical workday for you. What time do you start work, any rituals, routines, or tools you swear by?
8:30am: wake up, get ready
9:15am: commute to the office
9:45am: grab my breakfast in the office: coffee/tea, a banana, and some overnight oats
10am-5pm: mostly meetings :( with a lunch break ~12
5-6:30pm: some focus time — usually follow up on any action items from earlier meetings, catch up on slack, etc
6:30pm: office dinner & head home or to the gym, depending on how I feel
What are you currently working on? (Tell us like we're technical but not in the weeds with you.)
I manage a product team, so the team is hard at work trying to launch new products and product features. One of the upcoming products I'm excited about is catalog purchasing, which will enable a shopping cart purchasing experience in Zip!
What teams do you collaborate with?
On the engineering side, we collaborate with other P2P teams (AP automation, PO) as well as platform teams (ERP, FOCUS). We also work pretty closely with customer-facing teams like our solutions team, to ensure we have a tight feedback loop from the customer to the engineers.
What's something you've shipped recently that you're proud of?
My team has been working hard the past few months, and we recently launched our partnership with Brex, which gives our customers the ability to request, create, and manage Brex cards in Zip. See the TechCrunch highlight!
What's a "side quest" you took at work recently?
I've been developing our summer intern program this year! It's been a great experience, taking lessons from our past iterations and working with a great team of people (shoutout to my partners Daniela and Jerry on this) to make the program awesome!
What's your team's vibe like? How do you all work together day-to-day?
Pretty chill! We're super collaborative, always bouncing ideas off each other. Everyone's supportive, and there's a good balance between focus and fun.
What does remote work vs in office work look like?
Remote work: no commute, so I can sleep in an extra 30 minutes! and no office gym, so usually will do a workout class nearby, or take a rest day
Office work: we typically try to have meetings on in-person days, so more meetings :( but free food and gym access!
Favorite productivity snack or drink? (special notes for any places near the office)
Tea - I'm a reformed coffee addict, so I've converted to 2-3 cups of tea every day. Near the office, the fruit teas from HeyTea are a great afternoon pick-me-up!
Hobbies or interests?
Winter sports (skiing, snowboarding, ice skating), doing the NYT crossword, watching reality TV (survivor, traitors, bachelor, etc), playing poker!
Some trinkets on my desk:
My coworker recently came back from Japan, and brought us all Smiski surprise boxes (it's a box that contains a random toy figure). I happened to get a "secret" figure (~1% chance), which was a "lucky money cat" — very on theme for my team (payments)!
A typical office breakfast (ft. the cloudy san francisco weather)
Mints scattered around the office that I can't stop eating
Thanks to Marion for giving us a peek into life as an Engineering Manager at Zip! Stay tuned for more "Day in the Life" posts featuring engineers from across our teams.
Interested in joining our engineering team? Check out our open positions and see what it's like to build the future of procurement with us.
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