Zipline International Inc.
Metro Launch Manager
South San Francisco, California, USA · Senior
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About the role
- About Zipline Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service.
- Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
- The drone is only 15% of what we've built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-quarter metro roadmap and Metro Launch Plan of Record. Set scope, milestones, dependencies, and confidence
- Lead metro viability assessments with Government Affairs, Community Engagement, Regulatory, Product, and Systems Engineering.
- partner with Communications and Marketing on a launch approach grounded in actual readiness.
- Drive the metro critical path across development, construction, hiring, fleet, maintenance, flight operations, and marketplace readiness.
- Resolve tradeoffs, secure functional commitments and approvals, and lead readiness reviews through go-live and operational handoff, while Site and Partner Launch own detailed execution.
- Own and evolve the metro launch playbook. Establish entry principles and readiness gates, test launch hypotheses, and use early customer, partner, and operating results to improve subsequent waves and future metros.
- Own the multi-quarter metro roadmap and Metro Launch Plan of Record.
- Clear communication and a builder's instinct: you create playbooks and operating mechanisms that others can use, not processes that depend on you.
- We design, build, and operate the world's largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.
- Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people's lives and by scaling the future of logistics.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in market expansion, launch, operations, logistics, marketplaces, or complex cross-functional programs.
- Experience with regulated operations, infrastructure, autonomous systems, or real estate development is valuable.
- If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Nice to have
- Commercial and product judgment, backed by hands-on analysis.
- spreadsheet fluency is expected, with SQL, geospatial analysis, or scripting a plus.
Benefits
- With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
- Design the entry network with Network Planning and Real Estate: first-wave sites, coverage, connectivity, maintenance support, and expansion waves.
- Define launch selection, customer coverage, and success measures
Company info
- We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere.
- We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
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