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New Deployments Lead, Africa
Zipline
Posted 4 months agoNairobi, Kenya
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Country Operations
Job Description
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.
Zipline’s long-range autonomous drone system is already delivering millions of medical products across Africa. As we expand into new countries and regions, we’re seeking a Deployments Lead to oversee all construction and deployment activities across the continent. This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of new Zipline distribution centers, managing multiple country-level project ma
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Responsibilities
- Capture and implement lessons learned from every launch to continuously refine Zipline’s global deployment playbook.
- What You'll Bring
- Proven success leading large-scale, technically complex projects from concept to completion.
- Experience building and leading distributed teams across multiple geographies.
- A systems mindset, capable of des
- Own deployment strategy and execution for dozens of new distribution centers across Africa, ensuring scalability for future global expansion.
- Spearhead global cross-functional coordination across Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Regulatory, Operations, and Business teams to ensure seamless execution of multiple deployments that consistently meets partner expectations.
- Work with real estate vendors and local authorities to identify and secure sites that meet Zipline’s technical and business cri