Emerging Talent Recruiter (Contractor)

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Own 10–20 concurrent early-career requisitions from intake to close: write/publish JD, screen, full-cycle interview coordination, extend offers, and manage offer acceptance logistics.
• Target time-to-offer: 4–6 weeks for screened candidates; hit ≥85% offer acceptance within role bands.
• Plan and execute 6–12 campus events and competitions during peak season (virtual info sessions, campus career fairs, hackathons, technical talks).
• Set and hit event KPIs: leads per event (target 20+ qualified leads), pipeline conversion to interview (target 15%+), and hire yield (target 2–4 hires per major event series).
• Source proactively: build and maintain a pipeline of 300+ early-career candidates via university partnerships, targeted sourcing, referrals, and technical communities; manage top-of-funnel metrics and weekly pipeline updates.
• Stakeholder ownership: partner directly with hiring managers in Hardware, Manufacturing, Field Ops, and Software to define role requirements, own interview loop design, and run calibrated debriefs.
• Escalate pipeline or offer issues and recommend tradeoffs to the Hiring Lead.
• Event logistics & compliance: coordinate travel, shipping of materials, booth staffing, and on-site candidate assessments; ensure recruiting activities meet export, safety, and data-handling constraints where applicable.
• ATS, reporting & continuous improvement: single-point ownership for ATS hygiene (Greenhouse), weekly dashboarding of time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, event ROI, and a post-season playbook with improvements and university priority lists.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years full-cycle campus/early-career recruiting experience supporting technical roles (hardware, manufacturing, software, or field operations) OR 2 years + demonstrable campus event ownership with technical hiring outcomes.
• Proven owner-level delivery: managed 10+ concurrent requisitions and 4+ campus events in a peak season; comfortable owning offers and closing candidates within compensation bands.
• Measurable track record: able to present past KPIs (time-to-offer, offer-accept rate, event lead→hire conversion) and concrete examples of hitting targets under tight timelines.
• Logistics & travel readiness: available for domestic travel up to 40% during peak season (including occasional evenings/weekends); able to work onsite from South San Francisco HQ at least 2 days/week when not traveling.
• Tools & process: daily Greenhouse experience required; ATS/reporting fluency and comfort building dashboards in Google Sheets/Looker or equivalent.
• Legal & authorization: must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.; Zipline cannot sponsor visas for this contractor role.

Qualifications

• Must-have traits: rigorous owner mindset, comfort making tradeoffs under hiring pressure, decisive stakeholder facilitation, and attention to operational safety/regulatory constraints when recruiting for field and hardware roles.

Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with ATS and reporting tools.
• Knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements for recruiting.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation range: $60.00 - $65.00 / hour.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Health insurance.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Work-life balance initiatives.

Pay

• Starting cash range for this contractor position is $60.00 - $65.00 / hour.

Schedule

• The contractor role (Emerging Talent Recruiter) is a focused, owner-level delivery role for the upcoming fall university season (expected contract: 4–6 months, start August; potential extension based on performance and headcount needs).
• This role is based out of the South San Francisco Headquarters, but remote for the right person is possible.