Head of Deployments
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Head of Deployments leading Zipline’s autonomous drone delivery site launches across Africa. Owning multi-country infrastructure deployment, commissioning, handover and scalable launch operations.
Responsibilities:
- Own every launch from signed contract to a certified, operating site
- Lead parallel launch teams across several African countries
- Lead launch programmes across Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire through land, permits, construction, power, hiring, training, commissioning and handover
- Run the first Precision Delivery launch in Kigali with go/no-go gates and engineering dependencies
- Drive launch execution, timelines and quality standards, intervening when launches slip
- Own and productise the deployment playbook and standard bill of materials
- Plan customs, spares and power strategies for each country
- Hand over sites through written acceptance gates and own defects during the first 90 days
- Build and lead a flexible organisation of permanent staff, in-country launch pods and contract labour
- Hire, develop and redeploy leaders and talent as build waves change
- Partner with Country Directors, governments, regulators, contractors, Supply Chain, Logistics and Engineering
- Report to the Head of Operations, Africa
Requirements:
- 12–15+ years delivering multi-site infrastructure or network build programmes at scale
- Hands-on build experience in Africa covering land, permits, customs, power, contractors and government interfaces
- Experience in West Africa especially valued
- Track record of running parallel builds against a contractual deadline
- Experience building and applying a repeatable deployment playbook across many sites
- Senior enough to set strategy and lead leaders; hands-on enough to inspect and fix site issues
- Comfort leading an organisation that grows and shrinks with the launch pipeline
- Strong programme and project management instincts, driving workstreams end to end across teams not directly led
- Excellent stakeholder and negotiation skills
- Track record aligning senior commercial leaders around a plan and maintaining quality under delivery pressure
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