Commercial Implementation Intern (Summer 2027)

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South San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
34-34 Hourly
Internship
Aerospace • Hardware • Logistics • Robotics • Software • Transportation
Zipline democratizes access to critical medical supplies through instant drone delivery.
The Role
Design and improve commercial implementation workflows supporting partner onboarding, integrations, and ongoing operations. Map processes, identify bottlenecks, recommend improvements, collaborate with Product, Enterprise Systems, Customer Success, and Engineering, track performance metrics, and maintain process documentation and SOPs. The internship is full-time and in-person in South San Francisco, with occasional travel to commercial test sites.
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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 the Commercial Implementation Team

The Commercial Implementation team plays a critical role in ensuring the successful launch and ongoing success of Zipline’s commercial operations. The team defines commercial workflows and compliance processes, tests and validates new features and procedures at test sites and partner sites, creates training materials and onboarding playbooks, and identifies and addresses operational gaps to deliver a smooth and successful P2 experience for all commercial operations. The Commercial Implementation team is deeply knowledgeable in every step of the process from order placed to successful delivery, and works with internal and external partners to optimize the experience for operators and customers.

We build the processes against which our teams and our Partners’ teams will execute operating the Zipline Network.

Commercial Implementation team members work across all Zipline partner verticals and test sites. Site launch, training, and ownership will be determined by a combination of partner type and location. 

The Role

As Project Manager on the Commercial Implementation team you will focus on designing, optimizing, and maintaining the workflows that enable seamless partner onboarding, integration, and ongoing operations. Your primary role will be to ensure efficiency, scalability, and compliance while aligning with the team’s mission of delivering exceptional partner experiences.

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, and implement internal business processes - examples include document change management system and system for collecting subjective customer feedback
  • Map out existing processes to understand their flow and identify inefficiencies
  • Identify process bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and recommend solutions for continuous improvement
  • Collaborate with the Product, Enterprise Systems, Customer Success, and engineering to implement workflows
  • Monitor process performance, track key metrics, and report on process outcomes
  • Document and maintain up-to-date process workflows, guidelines, and SOPs
What You'll Bring
  • Experience in project  management, operations, or related roles, preferably in a fast-paced or complex environment
  • Proven track record of working with product, engineering, and customer success teams to align processes with business goals
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to drive collaboration and alignment
  • Practical experience in analyzing, mapping, and reengineering workflows
  • Ability to gather, analyze, and interpret data to inform process improvements and measure success
  • Strong organizational skills to manage multiple initiatives and ensure process documentation is comprehensive and accessible
  • Reliable vehicle access to travel to our test sites
  • Willingness to travel 1-2 times to out of state commercial sites
What Else You Should Know

This internship is a full-time position, in-person at our South San Francisco office. We will host our Summer 2027 interns from (May/June - August/September). Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position.

The hourly rate for this internship is $34 per hour. Additional benefits may include relocation support, a housing stipend, overtime pay, paid sick time, and other benefits, where applicable and subject to local requirements.

Candidates are limited to three (3) applications within a 30-day period.

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.

Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

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.

Skills Required

  • Experience in project management, operations, or related roles, preferably in a fast-paced or complex environment
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to align processes with business goals
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience analyzing, mapping, and reengineering workflows
  • Ability to gather, analyze, and interpret data for process improvements and success measurement
  • Strong organizational skills for managing multiple initiatives and maintaining comprehensive process documentation
  • Reliable vehicle access for travel to test sites
  • Willingness to travel one to two times to out-of-state commercial sites

Zipline Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zipline and has not been reviewed or approved by Zipline.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is consistently described as comprehensive and high quality, with multiple plan choices, low out‑of‑pocket costs, and additions like HRA, One Medical, and fertility support.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental and family leave is highlighted as generous and meaningfully used, reinforcing support for major life events.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off, sick days, and holidays are portrayed as solid and broadly available, contributing to overall benefits depth.

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The Company
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
375 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Zipline is the world's largest autonomous delivery network and is powered entirely by fixed-wing drones. Our fleet circles the equivalent distance of the equator every 2.5 days, and we have shipped hundreds of thousands of critical medical products across Rwanda, Ghana, and now beginning in the United States.

Why Work With Us

Zipline is the perfect intersection of super cutting-edge tech, deep social mission, and extremely compelling business case. Our small, scrappy, customer-obsessed, humble, and mission-driven team has set the bar for what is possible in the drone logistics industry globally, and has designed some incredibly elegant technology in the process.

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