Technical Program Manager; Cloud Infra, Data, Validation Platforms

Responsibilities

• You will be Zipline’s Technical Program Manager for Cloud, Data & Validation Platforms, part of the Program Management team, and partnering day‑to‑day with Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Maps, Autonomy, Validation, and Operations
• This role owns execution of the platform capabilities that enable safe, repeatable launches and fleet scale: cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, data ingestion and analytics pipelines, CI/CD and developer productivity systems, simulation and hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) validation environments, and telemetry/logging backplanes
• Your work directly affects fleet availability, launch cadence, and safety validation—delays or regressions reduce delivery reliability to hospitals, retailers, and government customers
• You will be based in South San Francisco, expected onsite at least 4 days/week, and available for occasional evening or weekend launch windows and incident response
• Own end‑to‑end programs with clear, measurable outcomes: define goals, milestones, success criteria and delivery schedules for platform initiatives spanning cloud/on‑prem migrations, data pipeline reliability, CI/CD latency reductions, and HIL throughput improvements
• Deliver against concrete targets (examples to own and drive): reduce full build+test cycle by 30% within 6 months for targeted teams; increase simulation/HIL test throughput by 2x in 9 months; raise pipeline data freshness to