Executive Assistant (Chief Hardware Officer & Head of Autonomy)

Join Zipline, a pioneering company in the drone delivery industry. As an Executive Assistant, you will support the Chief Hardware Officer and Head of Autonomy, playing a crucial role in the company's technical and operational success. You will manage their calendars, prepare for meetings, track follow-ups, coordinate travel, and support recruiting efforts. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role that requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to navigate technical conversations.

• Partner directly with senior leaders to manage their calendars, priorities, commitments, and operating cadence across various technical domains.
• Prepare leaders for technical operating meetings by gathering agendas, context, pre-reads, open decisions, owners, dates, and follow-up items.
• Track follow-ups across technical workstreams, ensuring decisions, owners, deadlines, revisit dates, and open questions do not get lost after fast-moving meetings.

• The right person for this role is highly organized, calm under pressure, technically curious, and comfortable operating in ambiguity
• High ownership and follow-through. You notice dropped balls, close loops, and keep important work moving without needing constant direction
• Energy, resilience, and enthusiasm for supporting leaders whose work directly affects the safety, reliability, and scale of Zipline’s global operations
• Comfort working across executives, senior engineers, program managers, recruiters, People Partners, operations leaders, and field teams
• Strong attention to detail and a high bar for preparation, accuracy, and reliability
• A service-oriented mindset with backbone. You are helpful, thoughtful, and proactive, while also comfortable pushing for clarity, protecting priorities, and escalating when needed
• Excellent calendar, meeting, travel, and logistics management skills in a high-velocity environment with shifting priorities
• Strong ability to operate in technical environments. You do not need to make technical decisions, but you should be comfortable around topics like aircraft reliability, software releases, validation, hardware root cause analysis, fleet operations, and engineering escalations
• Exceptional judgment and discretion, especially when handling confidential technical, operational, recruiting, executive, or people-related information
• Strong prioritization instincts and the ability to protect executive focus while staying responsive to urgent operational needs
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. You can turn messy discussion into clear follow-up, owners, dates, and next steps
• 7+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting senior technical, engineering, product, operations, hardware, software, robotics, aerospace, manufacturing, or infrastructure leaders