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.
As Zipline's partner ecosystem continues to grow, so does the opportunity to reach more customers through the brands people already know and trust. We're looking for a Partner Marketing Lead to build partner marketing into a scalable growth channel. You'll develop the strategy, systems, and relationships that turn partnerships into measurable customer acquisition, successful market launches, and long-term growth for both Zipline and our partners. You'll own the marketing relationship with strategic partners from strategy through execution, developing co-marketing programs, setting priorities, and creating repeatable ways to help partners grow while driving customer acquisition and growth for Zipline.
What You'll Do• Build Zipline's partner marketing strategy, operating model, and playbooks to scale partnerships across markets and partner types.
• Own the marketing relationship with strategic partners, developing joint marketing plans that support partner objectives and Zipline's growth priorities.
• Lead integrated co-marketing campaigns that drive customer acquisition, support market launches, and create measurable value for both Zipline and our partners.
• Turn partner-owned channels, audiences, and resources into scalable acquisition and awareness programs.
• Establish how partnership opportunities are evaluated, prioritized, and measured based on business impact, audience reach, partner value, and execution capacity.
• Create repeatable planning, measurement, and reporting processes that improve the effectiveness of partner marketing over time.
• Identify new partnership opportunities that expand Zipline's reach and create new customer acquisition channels.
• 7+ years of experience in partner marketing, strategic partnerships, business development, growth marketing, or a related field.
• Experience building and scaling partner marketing or co-marketing programs—not just executing campaigns.
• A track record of driving measurable business outcomes through external partnerships.
• Strong relationship-building skills with partner marketing, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across marketing, commercial, and external teams.
• Comfort building structure in ambiguous environments and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to define success, measure performance, and make informed investment and prioritization decisions.
• Ability to work onsite from Zipline's South San Francisco office.
The starting cash range for this role is $180,000-220,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
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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Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in partner marketing, strategic partnerships, business development, growth marketing, or related field
- Experience building and scaling partner marketing or co-marketing programs (not just executing campaigns)
- Track record of driving measurable business outcomes through external partnerships
- Strong relationship-building skills with partner marketing, business, and executive stakeholders
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across marketing, commercial, and external teams
- Ability to build structure in ambiguous environments and influence without direct authority
- Strong analytical skills with ability to define success, measure performance, and prioritize investments
- Ability to work onsite from Zipline's South San Francisco office
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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