Zipline
Program Manager - Growth & Profitability
$200K–$300K
South San Francisco, California, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 12+ years; the posting lists several qualifying role areas as alternatives.
About the job
Leads Zipline’s cross-functional Growth & Profitability program, aligning teams and decisions to scale customer and partner adoption while improving operating efficiency and business economics.
What you'll do
- Set program outcomes and measures with the executive DRI, and manage tradeoffs across growth, service, capacity, utilization, and margins.
- Integrate cross-functional work, resolve dependencies and ownership gaps, and drive delegated decisions to closure.
- Maintain program metrics, milestones, risks, and communications; stay close to field operations, partners, and customers to adapt plans.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in progressively senior operating, program, GM, product, strategy-and-operations, transformation, or executive-office roles, with measurable results from personally leading consequential cross-company work.
- Ability to influence executives and functional leaders without reporting-line authority and handle sensitive business context with judgment.
- Strong P&L judgment across growth, customer behavior, partner economics, pricing, capacity, utilization, and unit economics.
- Experience building lightweight operating mechanisms and working in multi-sided marketplaces, logistics, delivery, mobility, aviation, infrastructure, or other hardware-enabled, regulated, or operations-intensive networks.
Pay
USD $200,000-$300,000 starting cash range (base salary)
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative