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About Zipline
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 scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
As Zipline scales its operations across Africa, the ability to run a predictable, efficient, and scalable supply chain is critical to our success. We are looking for a Logistics & Supply Chain Analyst based in Côte d'Ivoire who will own core logistics and inventory operations while also building the systems and processes needed to support long-term scale.
This role is designed to elevate performance, bringing stronger ownership, better visibility, tighter cost control, and more strategic thinking to how Zipline manages shipments, inventory, and warehousing. Beyond day-to-day execution, you’ll be responsible for introducing structure, improving data visibility, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and supporting better decision-making across the supply chain.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on operator with strong analytical instincts, a solutions-oriented mindset, and a desire to work cross-functionally to create impact in fast-moving environments.
What You’ll Do
Shipments Management
- Own end-to-end coordination of inbound shipments (air and ocean) from origin to final delivery.
- Drive strong in-country shipment planning, routing, and consolidation strategies to optimize cost, speed, and reliability.
- Partner closely with freight forwarders and carriers to ensure consistent performance and continuous improvement.
- Analyze shipment performance across cost, routing, and timelines to identify optimization opportunities.
Customs Clearance & Compliance
- Oversee end-to-end customs clearance processes in coordination with brokers and authorities.
- Manage customs exemption processes, ensuring all eligible imports are properly captured and utilized.
- Maintain strong relationships with customs authorities to enable fast, compliant, and predictable clearance.
- Ensure all import/export licenses, authorizations, and regulatory requirements are maintained and renewed.
Inventory Management
- Own inventory accuracy, visibility, and control across all storage locations.
- Monitor stock levels, consumption trends, and replenishment needs to maintain optimal inventory health.
- Lead cycle counts, audits, and reconciliation processes to ensure high data integrity.
- Partner with planning and operations teams to improve demand visibility and reduce variability.
Warehouse Management
- Support the set up and optimization of the warehouse operations, including layout, storage efficiency, and material flow.
- Ensure warehouses operate with strong controls, organization, and safety standards.
- Track and improve key performance metrics such as inventory accuracy, stock turns, and space utilization.
- Drive process improvements to ensure warehouse operations scale effectively.
Vendor Management & Cost Optimization
- Manage relationships with logistics partners (freight forwarders, brokers, transporters).
- Oversee inland transport planning and execution from port to operational sites.
- Track vendor performance across cost, service, and reliability, and drive accountability.
- Analyze logistics costs (freight, duties, clearance, transport, warehousing) and improve cost efficiency.
- Build strong visibility on landed costs and support data-driven decision-making across the supply chain.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience in logistics, supply chain, or operations.
- Strong experience across shipments, customs clearance, inventory, and warehousing.
- Experience managing logistics vendors and partners in complex environments.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluency in English and French is required.
- High ownership, attention to detail, and a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
What Else You Need to Know
This role is based in Côte d'Ivoire and works closely with regional and global teams.
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
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About Zipline
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 scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
Zipline’s long-range autonomous drone system is already delivering millions of medical products across Africa. As we expand in Nigeria, we’re seeking a Construction and Deployments Lead to oversee all construction and deployment activities nationwide. This senior role is responsible for delivering Zipline distribution centers across the country, leading in-country teams and driving execution excellence from site acquisition and permitting through construction, vendor management, and operational handover. You will serve as the central point of coordination between local teams and global stakeholders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Regulatory, and Partnerships, ensuring each launch meets Zipline’s global standards while adapting to Nigeria’s regulatory and operational context. You are a builder, leader, and systems thinker who can navigate complexity, align diverse stakeholders, and deliver results at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Own deployment strategy and execution for all new Zipline distribution centers across Nigeria.
- Lead cross-functional coordination between Nigeria teams and global stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of multiple deployments that consistently meets partner expectations.
- Partner with government agencies, regulators, and local authorities in Nigeria to secure permits, approvals, and strong working relationships.
- Identify and secure sites that meet Zipline’s technical, operational, and business requirements.
- Build and manage a high-performing network of Nigerian suppliers and contractors, ensuring cost-efficiency, quality, and reliability of site works.
- Manage in-country budgets, timelines, and resources, making tradeoffs that balance speed, cost, and long-term operational excellence.
- Help hire, develop, and lead a team of deployment project managers.
- Capture and implement lessons learned to continuously refine Zipline’s global deployment playbook.
- Provide clear, data-driven reporting on progress, risks, and performance to leadership.
What You'll Bring
- 8+ years of experience in construction, engineering, or program management, including at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Proven success delivering large-scale, technically complex projects within Nigeria, from concept to completion.
- Strong experience working with Nigerian regulatory bodies, permitting processes, and local contractor ecosystems (highly preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop in-country project teams.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and make strategic tradeoffs under pressure.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills – able to represent Zipline effectively with partners, contractors, and government officials.
- A systems mindset, with the ability to build scalable processes adapted to local context.
- Grit, adaptability, and resilience to thrive in uncertain, constantly changing environments.
- Willingness and ability to accommodate more than 50% travel within Nigeria.
What Else You Need to Know
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
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About Zipline
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 scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and the Role
We are seeking a strategic, mission-driven Country Director to oversee and grow Zipline’s entire business in Côte d’Ivoire. This is the most senior role in-country, responsible for the P&L, commercial success, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability of our presence. This role reports directly to the CEO, Africa.
As the Country Director, Côte d’Ivoire, you will own the full performance of the business—from revenue growth and customer expansion to operational reliability and stakeholder satisfaction. You will directly manage operating units around the country, ensuring that Zipline consistently meets high standards of service quality, safety, and customer delight.
You will be the face of Zipline in Côte d’Ivoire, cultivating relationships with government partners, development organizations, funders, and key decision-makers. At the same time, you will be the internal driver of strategy, alignment, and accountability, ensuring that the business thrives by serving customers exceptionally well and building deep, lasting value for the country.
A strong candidate brings significant leadership experience, commercial instincts, operational understanding, and the ability to guide a complex business toward growth and impact.
What You’ll Do
Business Ownership & Leadership
- Own the overall health, performance, and growth of Zipline Côte d’Ivoire, including revenue, costs, service quality, and customer outcomes.
- Hold full P&L responsibility, ensuring the business is financially sustainable and primed for long-term expansion.
- Directly manage and coach Zipline Distribution Center (“Nest”) Operations Leads, ensuring operational excellence, reliability, and safety standards are consistently met at our nests across the country.
- Develop and execute annual business strategies and plans aligned with Zipline’s global priorities and the Côte d’Ivoire market, partnering closely with functional leads in Logistics, Procurement, New Deployments, Finance, Legal, HR, Recruiting, IT, Marketing, Engineering, Regulatory, and more.
- Lead cross-functional decision-making, risk assessments, and resource prioritization for the country.
Customer Experience, Partnerships & Growth
- Own the full customer lifecycle in the public and private sector—from initial engagement and contracting to implementation, scaling, and long-term partnership expansion.
- Lead impact, economic value, and solution-design conversations with clients, ensuring Zipline’s services deliver meaningful health, economic, and operational outcomes.
- Design and execute plans to integrate Zipline’s logistics and data services into government systems and partner workflows for maximum return on investment.
- Drive pipeline growth across health, agriculture, and additional sectors that can benefit from Zipline’s infrastructure.
- Strengthen relationships with government agencies, funders, development partners, and implementing organizations to support growth and national adoption.
Internal Leadership & Strategic Alignment
- Work closely with Zipline’s global and regional leadership—including the CEO, Africa—to shape the country’s long-term strategy, growth roadmap, and operational model.
- Ensure strong alignment and collaboration between commercial, operational, regulatory, and global teams.
- Serve as the key conduit of market insights, customer feedback, and operational realities to influence product, strategy, and global decision-making.
- Foster a culture of accountability, customer obsession, team development, and continuous improvement across the Côte d’Ivoire organization.
What You’ll Bring
- 8+ years of experience in business leadership, sales, partnerships, operations, or government affairs
- Experience managing teams and leading a business unit or P&L strongly preferred
- Proven track record of driving both revenue growth and operational performance
- Experience selling complex solutions or working with government and development partners (preferred)
- Strong strategic, analytical, and execution capabilities
- Ability to deeply understand customer needs and design solutions that deliver clear value
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and presentation skills
- Adaptability, creativity, and self-motivation
- A collaborative leadership style and a commitment to customer success
- Fluency in French & English required
Ability to travel: Up to 50%
What Else You Need to Know
Please Note
We have received reports stating that certain individuals are reaching out to people under false pretenses, claiming to be Zipline employees, affiliates, agents, or representatives. They may seek to gain access to your personal information or to acquire money from you by offering fictitious employment opportunities or by claiming that they are contacting you on Zipline’s behalf.
Genuine Zipline employees or representatives will never ask you for money or payment in exchange for employment opportunities or other related services. Any such offer of employment or any other service in exchange for fees that claims to be from us is deceitful and part of a fraud.
If you believe you have been targeted by a fraudulent party, we ask that you immediately get in touch with us via email at security@flyzipline.com upon receiving a suspicious offer or claim.
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Bilingual Construction and New Deployments Lead, Côte d'Ivoire
About Zipline
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 scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
Zipline’s long-range autonomous drone system is already delivering millions of medical products across Africa. As we expand in Cote D'ivoire, we’re seeking a Deployments Lead to oversee all construction and deployment activities nationwide. This senior role is responsible for delivering Zipline distribution centers across the country, leading in-country teams and driving execution excellence from site acquisition and permitting through construction, vendor management, and operational handover. You will serve as the central point of coordination between local teams and global stakeholders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Regulatory, and Partnerships, ensuring each launch meets Zipline’s global standards while adapting to Côte d'Ivoire’s regulatory and operational context. You are a builder, leader, and systems thinker who can navigate complexity, align diverse stakeholders, and deliver results at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Own deployment strategy and execution for all new Zipline distribution centers across Côte d'Ivoire.
- Lead cross-functional coordination between Côte d'Ivoire teams and global stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of multiple deployments that consistently meets partner expectations.
- Partner with government agencies, regulators, and local authorities in Côte d'Ivoire to secure permits, approvals, and strong working relationships.
- Identify and secure sites that meet Zipline’s technical, operational, and business requirements.
- Build and manage a high-performing network of Nigerian suppliers and contractors, ensuring cost-efficiency, quality, and reliability of site works.
- Manage in-country budgets, timelines, and resources, making tradeoffs that balance speed, cost, and long-term operational excellence.
- Help hire, develop, and lead a team of deployment project managers.
- Capture and implement lessons learned to continuously refine Zipline’s global deployment playbook.
- Provide clear, data-driven reporting on progress, risks, and performance to leadership.
What You'll Bring
- 8+ years of experience in construction, engineering, or program management, including at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Proven success delivering large-scale, technically complex projects within Côte d'Ivoire, from concept to completion.
- Strong experience working with Côte d'Ivoire regulatory bodies, permitting processes, and local contractor ecosystems (highly preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop in-country project teams.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and make strategic tradeoffs under pressure.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills – able to represent Zipline effectively with partners, contractors, and government officials.
- A systems mindset, with the ability to build scalable processes adapted to local context.
- Grit, adaptability, and resilience to thrive in uncertain, constantly changing environments.
- Willingness and ability to accommodate more than 50% travel within Côte d'Ivoire.
What Else You Need to Know
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Zipline