Emerging Talent Recruiter, Zipline
Contractor
$60-65k
Transforming the way goods move
Be an early applicant
Transforming the way goods move
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$60-65k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's first logistics system that serves all people equally.
Role
Who you are
- Early Career Expertise: 3+ years of experience dedicated to university, early career, or emerging talent recruiting, preferably within a fast-paced tech or engineering environment
- Event Management Savvy: Demonstrated experience planning, organizing, and executing creative on-campus or virtual recruiting events and managing logistics seamlessly
- Strong Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence, guide, and build strong relationships with hiring managers and cross-functional teams
- Willingness to Travel: Ability and excitement to travel domestically (primarily during peak university recruiting seasons) to attend career fairs, competitions, and campus events
- Candidate-Centric Mindset: A passion for delivering an empathetic, transparent, and stellar experience to early-career candidates navigating the job market
- Execution Focus: Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple high-volume pipelines and moving event timelines simultaneously
What the job involves
- The Emerging Talent Recruiting Team is dedicated to finding, attracting, and hiring the next generation of builders, innovators, and leaders at Zipline. We manage the full lifecycle of our early-career programs, ensuring that Zipline is the premier destination for emerging talent across hardware, software and operations teams, amongst others. Our team designs impactful experiences that bridge the gap between academic brilliance and real-world autonomous logistics
- We are looking for an Emerging Talent Recruiter to join us as a contractor to support our upcoming busy fall university recruiting season, with the potential for extension beyond that. In this role, you will play a key part in discovering and hiring the next generation of builders at Zipline
- You will manage full-cycle recruiting for various early-career roles, while also planning and facilitating engaging recruiting events at universities and technical competitions. This is a hands-on, fast-paced contract position perfect for someone who excels at candidate engagement, event logistics, and building strong, collaborative partnerships with hiring managers during our peak hiring season
- Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for various internship roles, ensuring an efficient, high-touch, and inclusive experience for every candidate
- Event Planning & Execution: Strategize, plan, and facilitate engaging university events, tech talks, hackathons, and competition sponsorships that elevate Zipline’s brand visibility
- Stakeholder & Manager Management: Build trusted partnerships with hiring managers and business leaders to align on hiring needs, define role requirements, and guide them through interview loops and candidate selection
- On-Campus & Event Representation: Travel to universities and key industry competitions to engage directly with students, pitch Zipline's mission, and proactively source top-tier talent
- Data & Pipeline Tracking: Keep recruiting data clean and up-to-date in our ATS (Applicant Tracking System), providing regular updates on pipeline health and event ROI to recruiting leadership
Our take
Zipline is reinventing how the world moves goods - one flight at a time. What started as a bold idea to deliver life-saving medical supplies by drones has grown into the world's first logistics network designed to serve everyone, everywhere. From rushing blood and vaccines to remote clinics, to dropping off everyday essential for Walmart customers, Ziplines's autonomous drones are proving that fast, reliable delivery doesn't have to be limited by roads or geography.
Zipline has an edge over potential future competitors as the company has thousands of hours and over 35 million miles of flight to prove the system is safe and effective. It’s also one of the first companies to receive a full commercial operating certificate, putting Zipline in a strong position to continuously branch out to other markets.
The unicorn company operates globally and has signed its first government contract with Rwanda to provide up to 2 million drone deliveries by 2029. Beyond government partnerships, Zipline has its sight set on everyday consumers, preparing to launch commercial deliveries straight to individuals houses. With its Walmart collaboration expanding and even Chipotle orders taking to the skies in Texas, Zipline isn't just redefining delivery - it's aiming to reach every corner of commerce, with a future that looks as bright as its ambitions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2026
$200m
SERIES H
Jan 2026
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company HQ
South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied Economics and Biotechnology at Harvard, they worked for almost 11 months as a self-employed rock climber. They combined their academic and practical experience to co-found Zipline in July 2011.
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