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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Legal
Posted
Sep 3, 2026
Salary
$160,000–$220,000 a year
Full-time

Director of Industry Standards

Job description

Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who…

Job responsibilities

  • Set and lead Zipline’s standards strategy across aviation, autonomy, and scaled commercial UAS delivery.
  • Prioritize standards bodies, committees, working groups, consortia, and coalitions; define objectives, participation level, and accountable internal owners for each.
  • Represent Zipline in forums such as ASTM, RTCA, and other relevant organizations developing foundational UAS standards.
  • Convert Zipline’s safety practices, technical capabilities, and operational learnings into standards proposals and evidence-based technical contributions.
  • Establish governance for approving company positions, technical contributions, disclosures, and standards-related IP risk.
  • Translate standards and regulatory developments into roadmap, certification, market-entry, and commercial decisions for Engineering, Aviation Regulatory, Legal, and Commercial teams.
  • Brief executive leadership on portfolio priorities, tradeoffs, external positions, risks, and decisions requiring alignment.
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