New Deployments Lead, Nigeria

Zipline is the worlds 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 worlds 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 worlds 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 weve 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 peoples 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 is scaling nationwide medical delivery in Nigeria using longrange autonomous aircraft. As the New Deployments Lead Nigeria (senior individual contributor/peopleleader) you will own end-to-end delivery and launch readiness for Zipline sites so hospitals clinics and health systems reliably receive lifesaving products on schedule. You will operate at the nexus of construction aviation regulation supplier networks and incountry operations translating Ziplines global operational and safety standards into sites that are permitted built commissioned and ready for flight operations. This role is highownership and highintensity: you will be accountable for delivering the country deployment plan on schedule within budget and to measurable reliability and quality thresholds while building and leading the Nigeria deployments organization.

• Own full lifecycle delivery and formal operational handover for all new Zipline sites in Nigeria: site selection input permitting and approvals civil/electrical/communications construction systems commissioning safety acceptance aviation clearance and transfer to Operations.
• Manage a portfolio of deployments (up to 12 total; concurrently up to 6 active sites) maintaining an integrated program plan with clear dependencies critical paths resource allocations risk register and escalation points.
• Define enforce and report launchreadiness acceptance criteria for each site as binary milestones plus percentcomplete against baseline (examples: permits approved infrastructure to spec power/comm uptime targets systems commissioned safety validations aviation clearance). Drive acceptance tests and defect thresholds at handover.
• Own program outcomes and tradeoffs: schedule adherence (plan vs. actual) budget variance (% and absolute) reliability/quality metrics at handover (defect rate commissioning pass rate) and sites launched per quarter. Authorize corrective actions and rebalancing of scope/resources to protect safety schedule and budget.
• Build hire and lead the Nigeria deployments team (project/program managers and site leads); directly manage external consultants contractors and onsite supervisors during execution. Clarify reporting lines and decision authority with Country and Global Leadership.
• Manage vendors and contractors endtoend: scopes contracts schedules costs quality control and onsite supervision of civil electrical and communications work. Hold vendors to measurable acceptance tests and enforce remediation for defects.
• Coordinate daily with Operations Safety Engineering Supply Chain Regulatory and Country Leadership to resolve design procurement certification and operational readiness issues that impact launch readiness.
• Own incountry deployment budgets and financial tracking; report variance explanations and corrective plans to country and global stakeholders.
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve Ziplines deployment playbook SOPs commissioning checklists and acceptance criteria to reduce defects and accelerate future launches.

• 8 years of relevant experience in construction infrastructure delivery engineering or technical program management including at least 3 years leading teams or complex programs and demonstrable handson field delivery experience.
• Proven track record delivering multiple technically complex infrastructure projects concurrently through permitting commissioning and handover; experience in Nigeria strongly preferred.
• Direct experience interacting with Nigerian regulatory bodies (aviation or infrastructure) and securing site permits/approvals for regulated projects.
• Practical demonstrable experience managing contractors and onsite civil electrical and communications works and driving commissioning to measurable acceptance criteria and defect thresholds.
• Strong program management discipline: integrated schedules resource and contingency planning budget ownership risk register management and decisiveness to make program tradeoffs.
• Metricsdriven: able to define track and report binary launch milestones schedule variance budget variance and basic reliability/quality metrics at handover.
• Comfortable operating in highintensity ambiguous field environments with variable site conditions and supplychain constraints; able and willing to spend significant time on active sites.
• Excellent stakeholder management and clear written and verbal communication with technical regulatory community and executive partners.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently across Nigeria and be onsite for extended deployment phases; must be based in or able to relocate to Nigeria for the role.
• Legal authorization to work in Nigeria; Zipline may provide sponsorship where applicable.
• Must be a licensed civil engineer.

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. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit please apply!

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