Executive Assistant to the CEO, Africa

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.

Zipline is looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to support our CEO, Zipline Africa who leads Zipline’s Africa business across a fast-moving and complex operating environment, interacting with customers and overseeing product and engineering, operations, new deployments, commercial, regulatory, legal, finance, and talent.

This is not a traditional administrative support role. You will sit close to the center of Zipline’s Africa business, helping the CEO stay focused, prepared, and effective across a demanding mix of executive meetings, operational priorities, government and external engagements, travel, recruiting, communications, and cross-functional initiatives.

The right person for this role is highly organized, proactive, calm under pressure, and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy. You are someone who can anticipate what the CEO needs before she asks, bring structure to ambiguity, and ensure important details and follow-ups never get lost.

You will be trusted with sensitive company, operational, commercial, government, people, and executive information. You’ll need excellent judgment, strong written and verbal communication, discretion, and the confidence to work effectively with senior executives, government officials, customers, partners, employees, and teams across Africa and globally.

This role requires someone who is comfortable working across multiple time zones and adapting quickly as priorities change. You should be energized by a fast-paced environment and motivated by the opportunity to help a senior leader operate at her highest level.

• Partner directly with the CEO to manage her calendar, priorities, commitments, and operating cadence across Africa.

• Own complex calendar management with strong business judgment, ensuring the CEO’s time is focused on the highest-impact priorities, decisions, relationships, and engagements.

• Prepare the CEO for meetings by gathering agendas, context, briefing materials, key decisions, open questions, stakeholders, and follow-up items.

• Coordinate executive meetings, leadership forums, operational reviews,