Technical Program Manager, Deployments
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Zipline Nigeria is hiring a Technical Program Manager, Deployments in Lagos to lead end-to-end execution of drone-based medical supply distribution center launches across Nigeria. The role involves owning integrated deployment plans, cross-functional coordination, and continuous improvement of launch processes to achieve faster, predictable rollouts.
- Lead deployment of drone-based medical supply distribution centers across Nigeria
- Own integrated schedules across construction, procurement, regulatory, and operations
- Work with Nigeria-based and global cross-functional teams
- Focus on launching new distribution centers in under three months
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Technical Program Manager, Deployments at Zipline Nigeria
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Sep 25, 2026, 12:07 PM
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Zipline - Do you want to change the world? Zipline uses drones to deliver critical and life-saving medicine to thousands of hospitals serving millions of people in multiple countries. Our mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. Join Zipline and help us make this a reality for billions of people.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Technical Program Manager, Deployments
Location: :
Lagos
About You and The Role
We’re looking for an exceptional Technical Program Manager to lead the end-to-end execution of Zipline’s Nigeria deployments.
If you’re energized by bringing order to complexity, leading high-stakes programs, and building systems that deliver meaningful real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.
You’ll own the integrated deployment plan, operating cadence, tools, and processes required to turn a complex portfolio of launches into predictable, repeatable execution. Working across Nigeria-based and global teams, you’ll identify risks early, drive accountability, resolve cross-functional issues, and ensure every site is ready to launch safely and successfully.
What You'll Do
Own the Nigeria deployment Operating system:
Build and maintain integrated schedules connecting construction, procurement, shipping, hardware commissioning, regulatory approvals, software readiness, operations readiness, hiring, training, and launch execution.
Own the master deployment plan across multiple concurrent distribution center launches in Nigeria.
Continuously improve the deployment operating model so Nigeria launches become faster, more predictable, higher quality, and more cost-effective over time—with the long-term goal of launching new distribution centers in under three months.
Maintain a single source of truth for program health, site readiness, key dependencies, and critical-path milestones.
Drive cross-functional execution:
Ensure every workstream has clear ownership, accountability, and escalation paths.
Lead execution across Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction, Logistics, Regulatory, Operations, Finance, and Nigeria country teams.
Identify risks months before they become problems by understanding long-term dependencies across workstreams, and anticipate how decisions made today can accelerate or jeopardize a launch many months down the road.
Serve as the central coordination point during commissioning and launch windows, helping teams rapidly resolve issues that threaten launch.
Partner closely with Nigeria leadership to align deployments with customer commitments and country priorities.
Build systems that scale:
Capture lessons from every launch and translate them into improvements for future Nigeria and global deployments.
Establish metrics that provide clear visibility into schedule performance, launch readiness, execution quality, and deployment cost.
Raise the execution standard across the company by building planning processes, operating rhythms, and decision-making mechanisms that enable teams to execute consistently at a world-class level.
Develop repeatable planning tools, stage gates, dashboards, templates, playbooks, and readiness checklists that contribute to or become the standard for deployments globally.
Lead program governance:
Run weekly program reviews, executive status updates, cross-functional risk reviews, launch readiness reviews, and post-launch retrospectives.
Provide leaders with concise, decision-oriented reporting that highlights priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and actions.
Drive timely decisions when priorities compete, assumptions change, or plans fall behind.
What You'll Bring
Clear, concise communicator who can simplify technical complexity and coordinate large cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Ability to work effectively across global, cross-cultural teams and translate between on-the-ground realities and global requirements.
Hands-on experience with program and scheduling tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Primavera, Jira, Airtable), AI tools, and building dashboards that track KPIs.
Demonstrated ability to build operating systems such as integrated schedules, stage gates, readiness criteria, playbooks, and program dashboards.
Experience launching complex physical infrastructure or real-world operational systems. Experience in Nigeria or a comparable operating environment is highly preferred.
Strong program management fundamentals, including integrated planning, critical-path management, risk mitigation, dependency management, and escalation frameworks.
6+ years leading complex technical, operational, infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, deployment, or supply chain programs.
Proven track record managing large cross-functional programs with multiple organizations and long-lead dependencies, with accountability for schedule, quality, and cost.
Operating context and traits:
Willingness to travel regularly within Nigeria and internationally for planning, commissioning, and launch support.
Flexibility to regularly work across time zones, and outside normal hours during critical launch periods.
Relentless attention to detail, disciplined cadence-setting, strong judgment, and a bias toward measurable outcomes.
Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous, and safety- or regulation-sensitive environments.
Non-negotiables:
Demonstrated history of improving schedule predictability, launch readiness, deployment cost, or execution quality.
Experience personally driving complex programs through execution—not only creating plans or facilitating status meetings.
Prior ownership of integrated deployment schedules spanning engineering, procurement or manufacturing, shipping and logistics, and regulatory activities.
How to Apply
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