# Head of Information Security 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: $250K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/8038244003?gh_jid=8038244003&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-head-of-information-security/

## About the role

Zipline operates autonomous delivery systems spanning cloud services, customer and operational data, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure. Security must protect those systems, customers, partners, and the people who rely on them while enabling engineering teams to deliver safely and quickly. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Set security and privacy strategy, risk posture, roadmap, operating model, and investment priorities across product, infrastructure, data, corporate technology, and physical systems
- Identify and sequence the company’s highest-consequence risks, driving clear remediation decisions with Engineering, IT, Legal, Safety, Operations, and Physical Security
- Be a pragmatic problem solver who helps engineering teams move quickly and securely. Make tradeoffs clear, find practical ways to reduce risk, and build tools and processes that make secure development easy
- Communicate material security and privacy risk clearly to company leaders and partners, translating technical findings into business tradeoffs and investment decisions
- Lead a software security engineering team that owns security capabilities in production, contributes fixes and reusable platforms, and works alongside Engineering to eliminate systemic vulnerability classes
- Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, clear expectations, and direct performance management

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