Counsel, Real Estate

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 You and The Role

The Zipline Legal Team is searching for an experienced, technically-sound, and process-oriented Counsel who will smoothly and repeatedly close leases for critical infrastructure with our Operations Team, and provide legal support on a range of real estate matters. In this role, you will serve as a key member of the Legal Team supporting real estate agreements, working especially closely with the Site Acquisition Team on scoping, drafting, negotiating, and closing agreements for our drone charging infrastructure. You’ll pair your surgical legal drafting and deft negotiation skills with your project management skills to support the business by efficiently negotiating and closing commercial real estate agreements. You’ll be a core member of a strong, friendly, passionate, in-house legal function and will report to Zipline’s Deputy General Counsel–Head of Commercial, while partnering closely with Senior Counsel, Real Estate.

What You'll Do

• Develop a deep understanding of Zipline’s product and service offerings, business strategy, mission and values.

• Confidently, efficiently, and thoughtfully draft, negotiate, and close real estate leases for drone charging infrastructure, maintenance and testing facilities, taking ownership from initial draft through execution.

• Lead the contracting process for the transactions you support—from initial scoping through execution—working cross-functionally with Site Acquisition, Land Use (Legal), Finance, and other teams within Zipline.

• Develop deep expertise in Zipline's lease forms, playbooks, and negotiation strategies, using that expertise to help the team close a high volume of transactions efficiently and consistently.

• Contribute to improving Zipline’s deal templates and forms to better support the business’s goals and improve transaction efficiency.

• Support landlord escalations and contribute to lease management processes.

• Help build and socialize thoughtful, repeatable, and rigorous deal processes that bring predictability and calm to your clients on the