Recruiting Manager

Responsibilities This is not a traditional recruiting management role You’ll lead recruiting for many of the teams that make Zipline run—from Operations and Manufacturing to Finance, Legal, People, Workplace, Communications, Customer Success, and other critical business functions Your job isn’t simply to fill positions Your job is to build a recruiting organization capable of hiring hundreds of extraordinary people while maintaining an uncompromising hiring bar You’ll partner directly with executives and senior leaders, influence organizational design, coach recruiters through complex searches, and continuously improve how we identify, assess, and close exceptional talent You’ll also build recruiting systems that scale As Zipline grows, you’ll help evolve our operating model, develop recruiting leaders, improve execution, and ensure every hiring manager receives world-class partnership Lead the strategy and execution for Non-Technical Recruiting across SG&A or Operations Build, coach, and develop a high-performing team of recruiters while leading from the front Partner with executives and functional leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, and hiring strategy Personally engage on the company’s highest-impact and most complex leadership searches Establish rigorous recruiting operating mechanisms, metrics, and inspection processes that improve hiring quality, speed, and predictability Raise hiring standards through structured interviewing, calibrated assessments, and exceptional talent evaluation Drive recruiter performance through coaching, data, accountability, and continuous development Build strong partnerships with Compensation, Finance, HR, Legal, and executive leadership to remove hiring bottlenecks Constantly improve recruiting processes using first-principles thinking rather than accepting existing ways of working Help scale Zipline’s recruiting organization during one of the fastest growth periods in company history Qualifications This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, raises the performance bar around them, and genuinely enjoys solving difficult talent problems Strong operational mindset with experience using recruiting metrics to improve execution Build trust quickly with executives and hiring managers Experience with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, GEM, Goodtime, Google Suite Enjoy solving ambiguous, difficult problems 7+ years of experience hiring across a broad range of business functions, including SG&A, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Customer Operations, or similar organizations Experience partnering directly with executive leadership on strategic hiring initiatives Experience developing recruiters into high-performing talent advisors Track record of building and scaling recruiting teams during periods of hypergrowth You’ll Thrive Here If You.. Care more about outcomes than process Believe recruiting is one of the most strategic functions inside a scaling company Give direct, thoughtful feedback Hold yourself and others accountable to exceptionally high standards Ability to balance speed with exceptional hiring quality 2+ years of experience leading recruiting teams within a high-growth technology company Default to action Seek ownership instead of waiting for direction #J-18808-Ljbffr