Director of Industry Standards

The role

You will own Zipline's standards strategy at the intersection of engineering, aviation regulatory strategy, global policy, and IP. You will turn operational experience into technical positions and shape external consensus to protect safe, scalable commercial deployment.

What you will do

• Set and lead Zipline's standards strategy across aviation, autonomy, and scaled commercial UAS delivery.
• Prioritize standards bodies, committees, working groups, consortia, and coalitions.
• Represent Zipline in forums such as ASTM, RTCA, and other relevant organizations.
• Convert safety practices, technical capabilities, and operational learnings into standards proposals.
• Establish governance for approving company positions, technical contributions, disclosures, and standards-related IP risk.
• Translate standards and regulatory developments into roadmap, certification, market-entry, and commercial decisions.
• Brief executive leadership on portfolio priorities, tradeoffs, external positions, risks, and decisions.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in aviation, standards development, regulatory affairs, autonomy, or aerospace.
• Aviation expertise developed at an aircraft manufacturer, component manufacturer, operator, aviation service provider, air navigation service provider, or relevant government agency.
• Demonstrated leadership or substantive participation in consensus standards bodies, technical committees, consortia, trade associations, or comparable forums.
• Working knowledge of how standards are developed, adopted, referenced by regulators, and applied to certification, market access, procurement, and commercial strategy.
• Technical fluency to evaluate engineering positions and translate technical or regulatory complexity into clear recommendations.
• Evidence of influencing cross-functional decisions without direct authority and building alignment with regulators, industry peers, certification organizations, and technical experts.

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Overtime pay
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Medical, dental and 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.