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Strategic Finance Intern (Summer 2027)

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 a Strategic Finance Intern supporting Operations Finance, you will play a key role in helping Zipline understand and optimize the financial performance of our global operations. You’ll work closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data teams to build analyses, streamline reporting, and develop insights that directly influence strategic and operational decisions. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Support Operations Finance with metric development, reporting, forecasting, and financial modeling
  • Query and analyze large operational datasets using SQL (Snowflake experience a plus)
  • Build repeatable dashboards and tools in Excel, Google Sheets, and BI platforms to drive visibility into performance
  • Partner with operations leaders to understand drivers of cost, efficiency, and performance across global sites
  • Support ad-hoc analyses related to operational efficiency, unit economics, and scaling strategies
  • Assist in month-end processes, variance analysis, and KPI reviews
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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