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Zipline

Robot type
Drone
Location
South San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Product
Posted
Jul 15, 2026
Salary
$165,000–$210,000 a year
Full-time

Technical Program Manager, Flight Systems Platform

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

  • Own cross-functional programs from strategy through delivery, defining outcomes, milestones, success metrics, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
  • Lead complex migrations, rollouts, and architectural transitions across cloud, on-premise, vehicle, dock, tower, and site environments.
  • Drive improvements in platform reliability, scalability, latency, cost, test throughput, developer feedback loops, deployment success, and operational recovery.
  • Establish shared readiness criteria for launches and migrations, including validation coverage, observability, rollback plans, operational ownership, and safety-critical dependencies.
  • Make cross-functional tradeoffs explicit, balancing safety, reliability, performance, cost, fidelity, delivery speed, and operational complexity.
  • Create effective operating mechanisms: program reviews, dependency tracking, risk registers, decision logs, executive updates, and measurable health dashboards.
  • Drive incident and postmortem follow-through, ensuring systemic corrective actions are prioritized, owned, measured, and closed.
  • Help teams turn shared platform capabilities into repeatable, self-service workflows for engineers, validators, technicians, and operators.
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