# Director of Industry Standards at Zipline

- Company: Zipline
- What the company does: Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.
- Company website: https://flyzipline.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7985874003?gh_jid=7985874003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-director-of-industry-standards/

## About the role

Zipline builds, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery systems that move critical goods where access is difficult. As commercial UAS delivery scales, the standards adopted now will shape how autonomous aircraft are designed, evaluated, integrated into airspace, and operated safely.

## What they're looking for

- Set and lead Zipline’s standards strategy across aviation, autonomy, and scaled commercial UAS delivery
- Prioritize standards bodies, committees, working groups, consortia, and coalitions, define objectives, participation level, and accountable internal owners for each
- Represent Zipline in forums such as ASTM, RTCA, and other relevant organizations developing foundational UAS standards
- Convert Zipline’s safety practices, technical capabilities, and operational learnings into standards proposals and evidence-based technical contributions
- Establish governance for approving company positions, technical contributions, disclosures, and standards-related IP risk
- Translate standards and regulatory developments into roadmap, certification, market-entry, and commercial decisions for Engineering, Aviation Regulatory, Legal, and Commercial teams

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