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Global Head of Government Affairs

Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA · On-site

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About Zipline

Zipline delivers food, groceries, and medicine in minutes with fast, reliable, zero emission delivery. Backed by Sequoia and Techstars.

About the role

As Zipline’s Global Head of Government Affairs, you’ll play a critical role in our global success. You’ll design and execute Zipline’s government affairs and public affairs strategy, with the support of the world-class team you build and lead, and you’ll have a direct impact on scaling Zipline's business across the United States, building on our broad footprint in Africa, and launching new markets abroad.

What they're looking for

  • Set our global government affairs and public affairs strategy, tuned to enable Zipline’s rapid growth in the U.S. and abroad
  • Build and lead a growing team of world-class employees and highly-effective consultants and lobbyists
  • Create and sustain enduring relationships with electeds and other policymakers at every jurisdictional level, cultivating champions who support Zipline’s mission and business
  • Build grassroots, grasstops, and third-party advocacy networks, to demonstrate Zipline’s community benefits and support market launches and expansion
  • Cultivate and mobilize trusted relationships within the communities we serve when the company faces opposition or controversy
  • Collaborate shoulder-to-shoulder with Zipline's amazing Regulatory Affairs, Legal, and Communications teams to deliver our Government Affairs and Public Affairs strategy
More about this role

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...

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