Program Lead, Support Operations & Partner Experience

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking a Program Lead, Support Operations & Partner Experience to drive cross-functional programs that improve the support experience for customers and partner sites. You will collaborate with Support, Operations, Product, Engineering, Commercial, and partner teams to launch scalable tools and workflows.

The ideal candidate combines business and technical judgment with superb program management, communication, and operational discipline in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Support Operations, Partner Operations, Program Management, Product Operations, Business Operations, Strategy and Operations, or related field.
• Experience building and scaling cross-functional processes from concept through ongoing operation.
• Strong business and technical judgment to create structure in ambiguity.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive updates and operating reviews.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage programs, prioritizing opportunities and shaping new processes and product improvements.
• Scale partner onboarding, payments, 1099 workflows, account administration, and other sales-adjacent operations.
• Lead launches with testing, UAT, training, and compliance tracking.
• Define end-to-end ownership, service levels, escalation paths, and responsibilities across teams.
• Drive multiple initiatives with milestones, risks, and dependencies through to launch and steady state.
• Build reporting on volume, SLAs, quality, and partner experience to guide actions.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Data-driven decisions

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA (preferred)

Tools

SQL

Snowflake

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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.

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

Zipline's Support team helps deliver a reliable, responsive experience for customers, merchants, partners, and internal operations teams. As Zipline scales its autonomous delivery service across marketplaces, retail, healthcare, and enterprise partnerships, Support plays a critical role in identifying issues, improving service quality, and turning operational insights into better products and processes.

As Program Lead, Support Operations & Partner Experience, you will lead cross-functional programs that improve the support experience for Zipline customers and partner sites. You will work closely with Support, Operations, Product, Engineering, Commercial, and partner teams to identify opportunities, prioritize improvements, and launch scalable tools and workflows.

The ideal candidate combines strong business and technical judgment with exceptional program management, communication, and operational discipline. You are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment, navigating ambiguity, building trusted partnerships, and driving measurable improvements across multiple teams and regions.

What You'll Do

• Program and operational planning: Gather insights from Support, partners, regional teams, and business stakeholders to identify needs, prioritize opportunities, and shape new programs, processes, and product improvements.


• Scale partner business processes: Build repeatable workflows for partner onboarding, financial inquiries, payments, 1099-related processes, account administration, and other sales-adjacent operational needs.


• Operationalize launches: Lead testing, UAT, experimentation, training, communications, compliance tracking, and feedback collection for new products, features, policies, and Support capabilities.


• Create end-to-end ownership: Define intake paths, responsibilities, service expectations, controls, escalation paths, and handoffs for work spanning Support, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Product, and Operations.


• Drive execution: Manage multiple complex initiatives, maintaining clear milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and ownership through launch and steady-state operations.


• Use data to improve performance: Build reporting across volume, service levels, resolution, quality, partner experience, utilization, efficiency, and cost. Translate trends into clear actions and business recommendations.


• Build scalable operating systems: Create and maintain SOPs, playbooks, business requirements, training materials, knowledge resources, dashboards, and executive operating reviews.


• Improve customer and partner experiences: Represent frontline needs in product and business decisions, identify recurring friction, and partner with relevant teams to address root causes.


• Optimize and automate: Identify bottlenecks and manual work, then implement practical process, tooling, AI, and automation improvements that increase quality and efficiency.

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Support Operations, Partner Operations, Program Management, Product Operations, Business Operations, Strategy and Operations, or a related field.


• Demonstrated experience building and scaling cross-functional business processes from concept through ongoing operation.


• Strong business and technical judgment, with the ability to create structure and make progress in ambiguous environments.


• Experience influencing technical, operational, commercial, and financial stakeholders without direct authority.


• Strong analytical skills and experience using data to evaluate performance, identify trends, and guide decisions.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive updates, operating reviews, and operational documentation.


• Strong attention to detail, ownership, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.


• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Support Operations, Partner Operations, Product Operations, or a similar function.


• Experience supporting merchants, independent contractors, enterprise customers, healthcare providers, retailers, or other business partners.


• Experience with partner onboarding, payments, financial issue resolution, tax-document workflows, account administration, or sales operations.


• Experience with product-development cycles, UAT, experimentation, change management, and operational readiness.


• Practical AI fluency, including the ability to automate workflows without dedicated Engineering support.


• Experience independently managing four to five complex, multi-quarter initiatives across multiple teams or regions.


• Experience structuring QBRs and strategy narratives for Director-level and executive stakeholders.


• Experience using SQL, Snowflake, business intelligence tools, support platforms, CRM systems, Jira, or Confluence.


• Familiarity with logistics, marketplaces, delivery operations, healthcare, retail, aviation, or another operationally complex environment.


• MBA or another relevant advanced degree.

What Else You Need To Know

The starting cash range for this role is $160,000-$210,000.

Final compensation will depend on experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and expected impact.

The total compensation package may also include equity, discretionary bonuses, and employee benefits.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.

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As set forth in Zipline's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.