About You and The Role
At Zipline, every new distribution center expands access to life-saving and essential deliveries for millions of people. Nigeria represents one of our most important and ambitious deployment programs, with multiple launches requiring close coordination across engineering, supply chain, construction, logistics, regulatory, software, operations, finance, and country leadership.
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.