Executive Assistant, Chief Hardware Officer & Head of Autonomy

The role

You will support the Chief Hardware Officer and Head of Autonomy by managing their calendars, priorities, and operating cadence. You will prepare leaders for technical meetings, track follow-ups, and coordinate complex travel and recruiting workflows.

What you will do

• Partner with leaders to manage calendars, priorities, and operating cadence.
• Own complex calendar management with business judgment.
• Prepare leaders for technical operating meetings by gathering agendas and context.
• Coordinate critical forums such as fleet health reviews and architecture reviews.
• Track follow-ups across technical workstreams.
• Support escalation hygiene by routing topics to the right leaders.
• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel.
• Support recruiting and hiring workflows for senior and technical candidates.
• Represent technical leadership with professionalism.
• Identify ways to improve information flow and decision capture.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant.
• Exceptional judgment and discretion with confidential information.
• Ability to operate in technical environments.
• Excellent calendar, meeting, travel, and logistics management skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• High ownership and follow-through.
• Strong prioritization instincts.
• Comfort working across various departments and seniority levels.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Service-oriented mindset with backbone.
• Energy, resilience, and enthusiasm.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting senior technical, engineering, product, operations, hardware, software, robotics, aerospace, manufacturing, or infrastructure leaders.

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods.