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Head of Commercial, Atlanta

Zipline · Atlanta, Georgia, 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 Head of Commercial for the Atlanta metro, you’ll be accountable for scaling a healthy, high intent marketplace and the metro & site-level business that supports it. You’ll own metro and site level P&Ls and customer metrics ( GMV , fleet utilization, take rate, customer growth, retention and frequency), build locally relevant partnerships and go-to-market plays, and run the day-to-day commercial engine that makes Zipline the obvious choice across retail, food, healthcare and industrial use cases. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Metro & site P&L and customer metrics. Be accountable for economics and customer outcomes (GMV, fleet utilization, take rate, customer growth, retention, frequency)
  • Build a healthy marketplace. Create customer-relevant, liquid marketplaces measured by utilization, customer frequency, retention, and order economics
  • Regional & local sales / partnerships. Own regional and local sales and partnerships, act as the pull function for HQ Sales/Partner Success to activate local enterprise partner stores
  • Site selection & capacity planning. Align teams around expansion priorities and work with Maintenance/Operations to align growth with delivery capacity and service quality
  • Demand forecasting & planning. Aggregate forward demand signals across partners into the demand forecast to support company-level planning
  • Experimentation & new use cases. Run experiments and launch new use cases/partners (for example: hero restaurants, auto parts, prescriptions, health system pilots) to expand the platform’s scope and utility
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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