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 has launched its life-saving delivery services in Côte d’Ivoire and is continuing to grow everyday. To ensure the rapidly-growing team is set for success, we are hiring a Human Resources Business Partner who has a deep knowledge of how to build highly motivated and engaged teams, ensure our company is run at the highest standards of HR compliance, and partner with leadership to drive high performance culture, team engagement, and leadership support.
You will be trusted with the responsibility of driving a high performance culture within our operations team and the business. Additionally, you will help create people tools and programs that will allow the people team to continue providing the highest level of support to our teams as we scale.
What You'll Do- Become an expert on the business and the unique challenges Zipline faces as we scale in Côte d’Ivoire
- Partner closely with operational leads, providing guidance and holding them accountable for high performing teams that do amazing work, on time.
- Act as a culture ambassador, emulating Zipline’s values and helping leads to incorporate them into their conversations around engagement, coaching & development and performance management.
- Work closely with leads on effective headcount planning and organizational design.
- Coach Leads regarding the importance of effective on-boarding for new hires/internal transfers and holding leads accountable to developing these plans.
- Hold leads (managers) accountable for giving clear and actionable performance feedback to everyone on their team through micro and macro feedback.
- Give direct feedback to leaders when they aren’t meeting Zipline’s leadership expectations.
- Drive company-wide performance calibrations and compensation reviews, ensuring a fair and equitable process.
- Design intentional and scalable Human Resource processes that work for our unique business.
- Help to keep Zipline compliant with labor laws and regulations.
- Assess team member concerns and complaints and work closely with legal counsel to conduct thorough, unbiased investigations and recommended outcomes.
- 8+ years of experience in a People or Human Resource role.
- Fluency in written & spoken English and French.
- Ability to build strong relationships and earn trust with team members all throughout the organization.
- Solid intuition on how to drive organization change in order to improve performance.
- Ability to spot and help solve humans working with human problems.
- Physically accessible and approachable, there is no better way to keep your finger on the pulse of your business than by keeping yourself actively involved in your team and the company’s day-to-day affairs.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver hard messages to leaders directly.
- Ability to cut through complex issues and find simple solutions.
- High level of discretion with sensitive people's information and can act impartially and objectively.
- Must be eligible to work in Côte d’Ivoire.
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.
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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.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family leave is highlighted as generous and meaningfully used, reinforcing support for major life events.
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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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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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