About this Employer Brand and Recruiting Events Program Manager role at Zipline
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 is looking for a Talent Attraction Program Manager to join our team in South San Francisco. This is a strategic talent acquisition position for a builder who understands the recruiting lifecycle and knows how to translate it into high-impact, memorable events and employer brand campaigns.
What You’ll Do
- Event Strategy & Execution: Lead the end-to-end strategy and execution for a diverse recruiting event portfolio, including industry conferences, technical hackathons, open houses, and executive-led panels. You own the vision, logistics, and ROI.
- Employer Brand: You will work to make Zipline an employer of choice in the industry.
- Collaborate closely with Marketing and Communications to develop creative employer brand campaigns.
- You’ll develop creative swag for recruiting events that evangelize our products and mission.
- Oversee our careers site and employer brand presence across relevant social media platforms and recruiting tools, ensuring a cohesive and engaging candidate experience.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner directly with executive stakeholders, Recruiting Managers, and cross-functional teams to align event goals with hiring needs. You will manage expectations, secure buy-in, and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
- Impact Tracking: Treat recruiting events like a product—measure success through hire conversion rates, pipeline quality, and brand reach. You have a proven track record of tying event activities directly to talent outcomes.
What You’ll Bring
Minimum Qualifications:
- 7+ years in recruiting and project management combined, with a strong background in full-cycle recruiting.
- You understand what makes a candidate say "yes," what the pain points are in the candidate journey, and how to use events to solve for those gaps.
- You are a master of logistics who can pivot when things don't go according to plan. You have a track record of executing complex projects on time and under budget.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, with proven track record of providing regular status updates to key stakeholders and recruiting leadership
- You know when to push back to maintain hiring standards and when to support the broader team.
- You aren't just looking to host an event; you are looking to build a pipeline. You leverage data to evaluate which campaigns are working and which need iteration.
- You thrive in an environment where everyone chips in to reach a common goal. You are collaborative, humble, and ready to contribute to our mission alongside the rest of the recruiting team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in a start-up environment and/or a company going through hyper-growth.
- Experience recruiting across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, aviation, robotics, autonomy, hardware, software, or logistics.
- You thrive in an environment where everyone chips in to reach a common goal. You are collaborative, humble, and ready to contribute to our mission alongside the rest of the recruiting team.
- Experience with Greenhouse, GEM, Jira, Confluence and Google Suite.
What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; overtime pay; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
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.
