About Zipline Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably.

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. 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 thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth.

Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds. About You and The Role This is not a traditional recruiting management role.

You'll lead recruiting for many of the teams that make Zipline run—from Operations and Manufacturing to Finance, Legal, People, Workplace, Communications, Customer Success, and other critical business functions. Your job isn't simply to fill positions. Your job is to build a recruiting organization capable of hiring hundreds of extraordinary people while maintaining an uncompromising hiring bar.

You'll partner directly with executives and senior leaders, influence organizational design, coach recruiters through complex searches, and continuously improve how we identify, assess, and close exceptional talent. You'll also build recruiting systems that scale. As Zipline grows, you'll help evolve our operating model, develop recruiting leaders, improve execution, and ensure every hiring manager receives world-class partnership.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, raises the performance bar around them, and genuinely enjoys solving difficult talent problems.

What You'Ll Do

Lead the strategy and execution for Non-Technical Recruiting across SG A or Operations. Build, coach, and develop a high-performing team of recruiters while leading from the front. Partner with executives and functional leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, and hiring strategy.

Personally engage on the company's highest-impact and most complex leadership searches. Establish rigorous recruiting operating mechanisms, metrics, and inspection processes that improve hiring quality, speed, and predictability. Raise hiring standards through structured interviewing, calibrated assessments, and exceptional talent evaluation.

Drive recruiter performance through coaching, data, accountability, and continuous development.

Compensation

, Finance, HR, Legal, and executive leadership to remove hiring bottlenecks. Constantly improve recruiting processes using first-principles thinking rather than accepting existing ways of working. Help scale Zipline's recruiting organization during one of the fastest growth periods in company history.

What You’ll Bring 2+ years of experience leading recruiting teams within a high-growth technology company.

Recruiting Manager