Technical Program Manager, Deployments

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.

At Zipline, every new distribution center expands access to life-saving and essential deliveries for millions of people. Nigeria represents one of our most important and ambitious deployment programs, with multiple launches requiring close coordination across engineering, supply chain, construction, logistics, regulatory, software, operations, finance, and country leadership.

We’re looking for an exceptional Technical Program Manager to lead the end-to-end execution of Zipline’s Nigeria deployments. You’ll own the integrated deployment plan, operating cadence, tools, and processes required to turn a complex portfolio of launches into predictable, repeatable execution. Working across Nigeria-based and global teams, you’ll identify risks early, drive accountability, resolve cross-functional issues, and ensure every site is ready to launch safely and successfully.

If you’re energized by bringing order to complexity, leading high-stakes programs, and building systems that deliver meaningful real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Own the Nigeria deployment Operating system

• Own the master deployment plan across multiple concurrent distribution center launches in Nigeria.
• Build and maintain integrated schedules connecting construction, procurement, shipping, hardware commissioning, regulatory approvals, software readiness, operations readiness, hiring, training, and launch execution.
• Maintain a single source of truth for program health, site readiness, key dependencies, and critical-path milestones.
• Continuously improve the deployment operating model so Nigeria launches become faster, more predictable, higher quality, and more cost-effective over time—with the long-term goal of launching new distribution centers in under three months.

Drive cross-functional execution

• Lead execution across Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction, Logistics, Regulatory, Operations, Finance, and Nigeria country teams.
• Identify risks months before they become problems by understanding long-term dependencies across work streams, and anticipate how decisions made today can accelerate or jeopardize a launch many months down the road.
• Ensure…