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Job Title: Technical Program Manager, Deployments

Location: Nigeria

About You and The Role

• We’re looking for an exceptional Technical Program Manager to lead the end-to-end execution of Zipline’s Nigeria deployments.
• You’ll own the integrated deployment plan, operating cadence, tools, and processes required to turn a complex portfolio of launches into predictable, repeatable execution. Working across Nigeria-based and global teams, you’ll identify risks early, drive accountability, resolve cross-functional issues, and ensure every site is ready to launch safely and successfully.
• If you’re energized by bringing order to complexity, leading high-stakes programs, and building systems that deliver meaningful real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do
Own the Nigeria deployment Operating system:

• Own the master deployment plan across multiple concurrent distribution center launches in Nigeria.
• Build and maintain integrated schedules connecting construction, procurement, shipping, hardware commissioning, regulatory approvals, software readiness, operations readiness, hiring, training, and launch execution.
• Maintain a single source of truth for program health, site readiness, key dependencies, and critical-path milestones.
• Continuously improve the deployment operating model so Nigeria launches become faster, more predictable, higher quality, and more cost-effective over time—with the long-term goal of launching new distribution centers in under three months.

Drive cross-functional execution:

• Lead execution across Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction, Logistics, Regulatory, Operations, Finance, and Nigeria country teams.
• Identify risks months before they become problems by understanding long-term dependencies across workstreams, and anticipate how decisions made today can accelerate or jeopardize a launch many months down the road.
• Ensure every workstream has clear ownership, accountability, and escalation paths.
• Partner closely with Nigeria leadership to align deployments with customer commitments and country priorities.
• Serve as the central coordination point during commissioning and launch windows, helping teams rapidly resolve issues that threaten launch.

Build systems that scale:

• Develop repeatable planning tools, stage gates, dashboards, templates, playbooks, and readiness checklists that contribute to or become the standard for deployments globally.
• Establish metrics that provide clear visibility into schedule performance, launch readiness, execution quality, and deployment cost.
• Raise the execution standard across the company by building planning processes, operating rhythms, and decision-making mechanisms that enable teams to execute consistently at a world-class level.
• Capture lessons from every launch and translate them into improvements for future Nigeria and global deployments.

Lead program governance:

• Run weekly program reviews, executive status updates, cross-functional risk reviews, launch readiness reviews, and post-launch retrospectives.
• Provide leaders with concise, decision-oriented reporting that highlights priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and actions.
• Drive timely decisions when priorities compete, assumptions change, or plans fall behind.

What You’ll Bring 

• 6+ years leading complex technical, operational, infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, deployment, or supply chain programs.
• Proven track record managing large cross-functional programs with multiple organizations and long-lead dependencies, with accountability for schedule, quality, and cost.
• Experience launching complex physical infrastructure or real-world operational systems. Experience in Nigeria or a comparable operating environment is highly preferred.
• Strong program management fundamentals, including integrated planning, critical-path management, risk mitigation, dependency management, and escalation frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to build operating systems such as integrated schedules, stage gates, readiness criteria, playbooks, and program dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with program and scheduling tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Primavera, Jira, Airtable), AI tools, and building dashboards that track KPIs.
• Clear, concise communicator who can simplify technical complexity and coordinate large cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Ability to work effectively across global, cross-cultural teams and translate between on-the-ground realities and global requirements.

Operating context and traits:

• Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, and safety- or regulation-sensitive environments.
• Willingness to travel regularly within Nigeria and internationally for planning, commissioning, and launch support.
• Flexibility to regularly work across time zones, and outside normal hours during critical launch periods.
• Relentless attention to detail, disciplined cadence-setting, strong judgment, and a bias toward measurable outcomes.

Non-negotiables:

• Prior ownership of integrated deployment schedules spanning engineering, procurement or manufacturing, shipping and logistics, and regulatory activities.
• Demonstrated history of improving schedule predictability, launch readiness, deployment cost, or execution quality.
• Experience personally driving complex programs through execution—not only creating plans or facilitating status meetings.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Nigeria

About You and The Role

• We are hiring an Operations Readiness Program Manager to lead new Long Range Platform launches across Nigeria.
• You will own country-level readiness for multiple concurrent site launches—making launch decisions, driving cross-functional alignment, and raising the operational bar so sites launch faster, safer, and scale reliably.
• This work directly enables Zipline’s mission to build an instant delivery system that delivers critical medical and commercial goods across hard-to-reach regions; your success reduces time-to-service, increases launch reliability, and ensures safe, certified flight operations in challenging field environments.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end operational readiness for 3–6 concurrent Long Range Platform site launches across Nigeria, from planning through first flight and early stabilization; maintain an integrated program plan with milestones, dependencies, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Define and enforce clear go/no-go criteria and measurable acceptance standards for safety, staffing, training & certification, infrastructure, equipment, communications, power, charging systems, and first-flight procedures.
• Maintain and report against launch KPIs (e.g., staffing readiness %, certification completion %, equipment acceptance pass rate, launch go/no-go rate) and use those metrics to stop or green-light launches.
• Lead the cross-functional readiness cadence and day-to-day decision rhythm, driving alignment between Recruiting, Academy, Engineering, Construction, Supply Chain, Safety/Regulatory, Partnerships, and Country Leadership; resolve conflicts and escalate issues with clear decision requests.
• Validate readiness through field verification: lead on-site checkouts, acceptance tests, and flight-readiness demonstrations; identify and close launch-critical gaps before first flight.
• Own staffing and competency readiness: confirm role fills, onboarding, and on-site proficiency; own the decision that site teams can operate independently and safely at first flight.
• Coordinate regulatory and community-readiness actions required for launch; ensure permit/approval evidence and safety artifacts meet acceptance standards before launch.
• Lead post-launch reviews and root-cause analysis, measure performance against launch targets (e.g., time-to-service, initial reliability), and convert findings into updated standards, playbooks, and training requirements.
• Escalate unresolved safety, regulatory, or critical-path blockers promptly with recommended remediation and clear authority boundaries.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years program management, field operations, or deployment experience in technical, regulated, or aviation-adjacent environments; direct site launch or activation experience required/preferred as documented in prior roles.
• Proven track record managing multi-stakeholder launches or rollouts across field sites with measurable outcomes (examples: number of sites launched, % time-to-launch reduction, reduced safety incident rate); be prepared to cite specific metrics from past programs.
• Demonstrated ability to define go/no-go criteria, write acceptance tests, and enforce KPIs under schedule pressure; comfortable making and owning launch decisions.
• Hands-on experience coordinating engineering, construction, supply chain, and training to achieve first operational use at field sites; experience validating power, communications, charging systems, aircraft, and ground equipment preferred.
• Clear escalation judgment and stakeholder management: can resolve conflicts, escalate early, and present decision-ready summaries to country leadership.
• Able to operate in high-intensity field conditions: willing to spend extended periods on-site during launches and to work irregular hours around critical milestones.
• Willingness and ability to travel throughout Nigeria ~20–30% typically, with higher intensity during launch windows.
• Fluency in English and authorization to work in Nigeria.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online