Emerging Talent Recruiter (Contractor)

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 the Emerging Talent Recruiting Team

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.

The Role

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.

We prefer to have someone work out of our South San Francisco Headquarters, but we're open to remote for the right person! 

What You'll Do

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.

What You'll Bring

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 Else You Should Know

Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position.

The starting cash range for this co ntractor position is $60.00 - $65.00 / hour. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific can didate's experience, qualifications, skills, and working location.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.  

Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.