Legal Summer Associate (Summer 2026)

Zipline•South San Francisco, CA

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. They design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, making millions of deliveries across four continents. Their system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back, with over 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown. Zipline seeks practical problem solvers motivated by building systems with meaningful impact and scaling the future of logistics. They are looking for two proactive and curious summer associates to support the Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Team in Summer 2026. These associates will join a lean team and work on substantive and impactful legal and policy projects spanning across a variety of jurisdictions (e.g., local, state, national, and international) and subject matters (e.g., corporate, commercial, land use, environmental, healthcare, data privacy, IP, employment, and international risk compliance). The role reports to Zipline’s Deputy General Counsel.

Requirements

Strong legal research and writing skills and are willing to get in the weeds and dive headfirst into whatever issue or question is facing the business, regardless of familiarity
Analytical rigor and attention-to-detail necessary to provide insightful feedback and comments to work product
Careful, systematic, and organized and are able to effectively manage deadlines and competing priorities
Responsive and have a positive, solution-oriented attitude, and the enthusiasm to proactively and passionately drive Zipline’s business forward by solving multiple complex problems on a daily basis
Creativity and confidence to suggest new and interesting processes, approaches, or solutions to build Zipline’s legal operations
Ask questions and know how and when to communicate what you do not know
Active and skilled listener who can digest and effectively communicate large amounts of inbound information
Believe deeply that access matters and that we can and will provide equitable access to goods for every person on the planet
1L or 2L student at a law school
Must be eligible to work in the United States
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future

Responsibilities

Manage research projects in the corporate, aviation, international law, privacy, and healthcare landscapes, including conducting surveys and distilling findings on these laws in dozens of states and countries where Zipline anticipates operating
Help build and maintain a “knowledge base” of key legal information, memoranda, resources, and templates that the Zipline Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Team can utilize and build on in the future
Develop skills in corporate governance, equity administration and investor relations, including work on corporate consents, employment and policy materials
Help draft and review vendor, supplier and other commercial contracts
Analyze the legal and policy impacts of new legislation on our mission
Write and proofread legal documents, memoranda, and correspondence
Coordinate with public authorities, including public notaries and/or apostilles in connection with corporate or other filings and formalities