Flyzipline
Product Manager, Airspace Platform
South San Francisco, California, USA. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will build infrastructure for autonomous aviation to make it safer, more efficient, and scalable. You will work at the intersection of autonomy, aviation, software, data, regulation, and real-world operations.
What you will do
- Define product strategy and roadmap for the Airspace Platform.
- Turn flight and airspace data into products to improve safety and efficiency.
- Build analytical tools and metrics to identify operational friction and guide decisions.
- Lead interoperability with external drone operators, air traffic management, and regulatory systems.
- Shape industry standards through engagement with regulators, customers, and partners.
- Partner with commercial, regulatory, and operations teams for new market entry.
- Use simulation, data analysis, and AI-native workflows to test ideas.
- Align engineering, autonomy, operations, safety, regulatory, data, and commercial teams.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of product management, technical product management, systems, analytics, or related experience.
- Experience building complex software platforms, data products, operational systems, or products that operate in the real world.
- Strong analytical skills including experience defining metrics and working with operational data.
- Technical fluency with APIs, data models, distributed systems, geospatial concepts, integrations, and operational workflows.
- Track record of taking ambiguous problems from concept through prototyping, validation, deployment, and scale.
- Ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Skill in AI-native product development and practical experience using AI tools.
Nice to have
- Experience with market launches
- International product expansion
- Autonomous systems
- Robotics
- Logistics
- Mobility
About the company
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods globally.