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 You are joining Zipline as the Test Maintenance Program Manager to own end-to-end program delivery that keeps test aircraft and test sites mission-ready across Zipline’s test operations footprint (NestZ, Nest0, Truckzilla, Cascades, and future sites).

This role sits at the intersection of Maintenance Operations Engineering, Flight Test, Product, and site operations and exists because maintenance readiness directly determines flight-test cadence, safety margins, and the pace at which we validate new hardware and scale commercial operations. You will translate day-to-day maintenance demands into owned programs that remove blockers, tighten configuration control, and turn test-site learnings into repeatable processes and tooling that improve fleet availability and reduce safety/regulatory risk.

What You'Ll Do

Own program-level delivery for test maintenance across NestZ, Nest0, Truckzilla, Cascades, and new test sites: set milestones, assign owners, enforce deadlines, and be accountable for program outcomes. Translate floor-level maintenance needs into program plans: capture tooling, parts, documentation, technician training, inspections, configuration baselines, and return-to-service assumptions. Act as the primary programmatic link between Maintenance Ops Engineering, Flight Test, Engineering, Product, and site operations—drive cross-functional decisions and escalate unresolved risks to stakeholders.

Maintain and own configuration and modification tracking for all active test aircraft: ensure change-control compliance, run configuration audits, and close corrective actions. , percent of aircraft meeting campaign-ready criteria, mean time to return-to-service, blocker closure rate) on a cadence tied to campaign schedules. Run regular Test Maintenance Program Updates for leadership and site teams that surface blockers, decisions needed, impacts to flight-test velocity, and resource gaps.

Design and deploy dashboards, checklists, and workflows that reduce technician administrative burden and speed maintenance execution.

Requirements

, documentation updates, validated training inputs, and go/no-go criteria for commercial handoff.