Senior Leadership Recruiter

Job Description

Job Description

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 You and The Role

Zipline is seeking an exceptional Staff Leadership Recruiter to help build the leadership team that will define our next stage of growth as a company. This highly strategic individual contributor role focused on identifying, engaging, assessing, and closing world-class leadership talent that will be critical to Zipline's continued success.

You will partner directly with executives and senior stakeholders to shape organizational capabilities, influence talent strategy, and deliver transformative hires that accelerate business outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep recruiting expertise with strong business acumen, exceptional judgement, and a demonstrated track record of leadership hiring in high growth environments.

This role requires someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and consistently raises the talent bar through rigorous assessment and market intelligence.

Build an Exceptional Leadership Team

• Lead end-to-end searches for Director, Senior Director, VP, and executive-level talent across multiple functions.

• Develop and execute proactive talent strategies to identify and attract top leadership candidates from highly competitive markets.

• Build deep pipelines of passive talent and maintain long-term relationships with high-potential leaders.

• Deliver exceptional candidate experiences while effectively representing the company's mission, culture, and growth opportunities.

Serve as a Strategic Talent Advisor

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives, hiring managers, and business leaders.

• Develop a deep understanding of Zipline's strategy, operating model, and leadership needs.

• Influence hiring decisions through data, market intelligence, organizational insights, and talent assessments.

• Help leaders define hiring profiles that align with both current business needs and future organizational growth.

• Conduct proactive market mapping and benchmarking to stay ahead of talent trends in key functional areas.

Assess Leadership Talent

• Evaluate candidates for leadership capability, organizational impact, strategic thinking, execution excellence, and cultural contribution.

• Conduct rigorous assessments that go beyond experience to identify leaders capable of scaling teams, navigating complexity, and delivering results.

• Develop structured interview processes and assessment frameworks that improve hiring quality and reduce bias.

Shape Talent Strategy

• Conduct talent mapping and market analysis to inform organizational planning and hiring priorities.

• Partner on succession planning and long-term leadership capability development.

• Drive continuous improvement in leadership recruiting practices and processes.

• Raise the bar for how Zipline attracts, evaluates, and hires leaders.

What You'll Bring

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience, including significant experience hiring Director-level and above leadership talent.

• Demonstrated success recruiting senior leaders in hyper-growth, high-growth, or transformational companies.

• Experience partnering directly with executive leadership teams and senior stakeholders.

• Proven track record of independently leading complex leadership searches from strategy through close.

• Expertise in executive sourcing, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and executive-level candidate management.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication.

• Strong organizational skills & ability to multitask and adapt to a fast-paced startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience recruiting leaders across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, aviation, robotics, autonomy, hardware, software, or logistics organizations.

• Possession of strong analytical skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.

• Experience with Hardware recruiting.

• Experience with Greenhouse, GEM, Goodtime, Google Suite.

The starting cash range for this role is $150,000 - $210,000. 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, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.

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!

Please Note

We have received reports stating that certain individuals are reaching out to people under false pretenses, claiming to be Zipline employees, affiliates, agents, or representatives. They may seek to gain access to your personal information or to acquire money from you by offering fictitious employment opportunities or by claiming that they are contacting you on Zipline's behalf.

Genuine Zipline employees or representatives will never ask you for money or payment in exchange for employment opportunities or other related services. Any such offer of employment or any other service in exchange for fees that claims to be from us is deceitful and part of a fraud.