Strategic Finance Manager, Operations
US$140,000 – US$200,000 / yr base salary
Posted 5 Aug 2026
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- Expected experience
- 5–10 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
| Base salary | US$140,000 – US$200,000 / yr |
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About Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
We are looking for a Strategic Finance Manager, Operations to serve as a senior finance partner to Zipline’s operations focused on our next generation precise delivery platform.
In this role, you will help Zipline understand and improve the financial performance of its operations across maintenance, flight operations, material planning, supply chain, demand planning, customer support, safety, flight test, real estate, ground systems, launch, and business operations.
You will own core planning and reporting processes, including forecast versus actuals, annual forecasting and consolidation, operating performance reviews, and high priority ad hoc models that support leadership decisions. You will work directly with business partners to understand their goals, processes, constraints, and tradeoffs, then translate that operating context into clear financial insight.
The right person will be expected to take ambiguous operational questions, structure the analysis, build the model, pressure test assumptions, align stakeholders, and help drive decisions.