Product Manager

Who you are

• This role is ideal for a product leader who enjoys ambiguous, technically complex problems and can move fluidly from strategy to analytics to validated product decisions
• 8+ years of product management, technical product management, systems, analytics, or related experience
• Experience building complex software platforms, data products, operational systems, or products that operate in the real world
• Strong analytical skills, including experience defining metrics, working with operational data, and using evidence to prioritize decisions
• Technical fluency with APIs, data models, distributed systems, geospatial concepts, integrations, and operational workflows
• A track record of taking ambiguous problems from concept through prototyping, validation, deployment, and scale
• Strong ability to influence across organizational boundaries, including engineers, operators, regulators, partners, and industry stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical and operational topics clear
• Skill in AI-native product development and practical experience using AI tools for analysis, prototyping, research, experimentation, or workflow automation
• Experience with market launches, international product expansion, autonomous systems, robotics, logistics, or mobility is a plus

What the job involves

• As a Product Manager on Zipline’s Airspace Platform team, you will help build the infrastructure that makes autonomous aviation safer, more efficient, and scalable across the world. Zipline already operates production-grade airspace management capabilities at significant scale. The next opportunity is to turn that operational experience and data into a broader platform for airspace intelligence, coordination, interoperability, and market expansion
• You will work at the intersection of autonomy, aviation, software, data, regulation, and real-world operations. You will help define how Zipline understands and uses shared airspace, coordinates with other airspace users, integrates with external systems, and enters new markets
• Define key aspects of the product strategy and roadmap for Zipline’s Airspace Platform, spanning airspace intelligence, strategic and tactical coordination, interoperability, tracking, analytics, and operational workflows
• Turn real-world flight and airspace data into products that improve safety, efficiency, visibility, and access to shared airspace
• Build analytical tools and metrics to identify operational friction, explain delays and conflicts, measure airspace efficiency, and guide product decisions
• Lead interoperability with external drone operators, air traffic management, regulatory, and industry systems
• Help shape industry standards and ecosystem architecture through engagement with regulators, standards organizations, customers, and partners
• Partner with commercial, regulatory, and operations teams to deliver the capabilities required for Zipline’s entry into new markets
• Use simulation, data analysis, rapid prototypes, and AI-native workflows to explore ideas, test assumptions, and invalidate weak concepts before significant engineering investment
• Align engineering, autonomy, operations, safety, regulatory, data, and commercial teams around clear priorities and measurable outcomes