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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Customer Success
Posted
Sep 21, 2026
Salary
$160,000–$210,000 a year
Full-time

Program Lead, Support Operations & Partner Experience

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

  • Program and operational planning: Gather insights from Support, partners, regional teams, and business stakeholders to identify needs, prioritize opportunities, and shape new programs, processes, and product…
  • Scale partner business processes: Build repeatable workflows for partner onboarding, financial inquiries, payments, 1099-related processes, account administration, and other sales-adjacent operational needs.
  • Operationalize launches: Lead testing, UAT, experimentation, training, communications, compliance tracking, and feedback collection for new products, features, policies, and Support capabilities.
  • Create end-to-end ownership: Define intake paths, responsibilities, service expectations, controls, escalation paths, and handoffs for work spanning Support, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Product, and Operations.
  • Drive execution: Manage multiple complex initiatives, maintaining clear milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and ownership through launch and steady-state operations.
  • Use data to improve performance: Build reporting across volume, service levels, resolution, quality, partner experience, utilization, efficiency, and cost.
  • Build scalable operating systems: Create and maintain SOPs, playbooks, business requirements, training materials, knowledge resources, dashboards, and executive operating reviews.
  • Improve customer and partner experiences: Represent frontline needs in product and business decisions, identify recurring friction, and partner with relevant teams to address root causes.

Job requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Support Operations, Partner Operations, Program Management, Product Operations, Business Operations, Strategy and Operations, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated experience building and scaling cross-functional business processes from concept through ongoing operation.
  • Strong business and technical judgment, with the ability to create structure and make progress in ambiguous environments.
  • Experience influencing technical, operational, commercial, and financial stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Strong analytical skills and experience using data to evaluate performance, identify trends, and guide decisions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive updates, operating reviews, and operational documentation.
  • Strong attention to detail, ownership, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

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