# Technical Release Manager 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: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco, California, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $124K to $186K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://www.zipline.com/open-roles/7994680003?gh_jid=7994680003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zipline-technical-release-manager/

## About the role

Zipline’s System Validation team ensures the software and hardware powering our autonomous delivery system operate safely, reliably, and as intended in the real world.

## What they're looking for

- Own the end-to-end release process across a portfolio of software and system releases, aligning scope, content, configuration, schedule, validation, risks, and readiness from planning through sign-off and deployment
- Be the expert on release content and configuration, including release-defining changes, hardware and software compatibility, cross-system dependencies, and the downstream impact of changes
- Coordinate release activities across component teams and downstream consumers, aligning dependencies and incremental work with release milestones to improve consistency and predictability
- Lead cross-functional release forums, driving clear decisions, ownership, and accountability
- Proactively identify and own technical projects that resolve major inefficiencies and/or gaps in the release process
- Improve release metrics, dashboards, and supporting tools, providing engineering, operations, and leadership with accurate, data-backed assessments of release health

Tags: Systems