Product Manager (Airspace Platform)

Zipline; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Product Manager for its Airspace Platform to shape the next generation of autonomous aviation infrastructure. You will turn operational airspace data into scalable products spanning intelligence, coordination, interoperability, and market expansion.

You will partner with cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, regulatory affairs, and customers to define strategy, measure impact, and drive outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management or related roles.
• Experience with AI-native product development.
• Experience building complex software platforms and data products.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and roadmap for Zipline’s Airspace Platform.
• Turn real-world flight and airspace data into scalable products.
• Build analytics tools to measure efficiency and guide decisions.
• Lead interoperability with external drone operators, ATC, regulators, and industry systems.
• Align cross-functional teams to priorities with measurable outcomes.

Skills

8+ years product management

AI-native product development

Analytical skills

Communication skills

APIs

Tools

APIs

Geospatial concepts

Distributed systems

Job description

• As a Product Manager on Zipline’s Airspace Platform team, you will help build the infrastructure that makes autonomous aviation safer, more efficient, and scalable across the world. Zipline already operates production-grade airspace management capabilities at significant scale
• The next opportunity is to turn that operational experience and data into a broader platform for airspace intelligence, coordination, interoperability, and market expansion
• You will work at the intersection of autonomy, aviation, software, data, regulation, and real-world operations. You will help define how Zipline understands and uses shared airspace, coordinates with other airspace users, integrates with external systems, and enters new markets
• Define key aspects of the product strategy and roadmap for Zipline’s Airspace Platform, spanning airspace intelligence, strategic and tactical coordination, interoperability, tracking, analytics, and operational workflows
• Turn real-world flight and airspace data into products that improve safety, efficiency, visibility, and access to shared airspace
• Build analytical tools and metrics to identify operational friction, explain delays and conflicts, measure airspace efficiency, and guide product decisions
• Lead interoperability with external drone operators, air traffic management, regulatory, and industry systems
• Help shape industry standards and ecosystem architecture through engagement with regulators, standards organizations, customers, and partners
• Partner with commercial, regulatory, and operations teams to deliver the capabilities required for Zipline’s entry into new markets
• Use simulation, data analysis, rapid prototypes, and AI-native workflows to explore ideas, test assumptions, and invalidate weak concepts before significant engineering investment
• Align engineering, autonomy, operations, safety, regulatory, data, and commercial teams around clear priorities and measurable outcomes

This role is ideal for a product leader who enjoys ambiguous, technically complex problems and can move fluidly from strategy to analytics to validated product decisionsStrong ability to influence across organizational boundaries, including engineers, operators, regulators, partners, and industry stakeholdersA track record of taking ambiguous problems from concept through prototyping, validation, deployment, and scaleExperience building complex software platforms, data products, operational systems, or products that operate in the real worldExperience with market launches, international product expansion, autonomous systems, robotics, logistics, or mobility is a plusStrong analytical skills, including experience defining metrics, working with operational data, and using evidence to prioritize decisionsExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical and operational topics clear8+ years of product management, technical product management, systems, analytics, or related experienceSkill in AI-native product development and practical experience using AI tools for analysis, prototyping, research, experimentation, or workflow automationTechnical fluency with APIs, data models, distributed systems, geospatial concepts, integrations, and operational workflows