Commercial Strategy Associate Principal

Commercial Strategy Associate Principal

As a Commercial Strategy Associate Principal at Via, you'll be on the cutting-edge of the mobility revolution, combining your exceptional analytical skills with Via's sophisticated transit planning and simulation technology. You will be comfortable directly conducting analysis, while also managing projects and team members. You will plan and design robust transit networks, leverage data-driven insights to optimize complex systems, and take on strategic projects that uncover opportunities to improve service quality and efficiency across hundreds of Via's markets. You'll work closely and collaboratively with Sales, Partner Success, Operations, Launch, and Product teams to develop and implement the strategies and product features that position Via and its partners for success.

What You'll Do :

• Become an expert at recognizing and applying strategies and levers to design and optimize sophisticated, multimodal transportation technology and systems.
• Work directly with customers and commercial teams to influence and educate through data-driven insights and clear, concise communication.
• Lead projects and project teams, ensuring we prioritize resources, meet deadlines, and provide support and guidance to team members.
• Learn to solve complex transportation problems by identifying where and how on-demand transit can improve a network. Examples include providing a first / last mile service for a bus or rail line, optimizing coverage in areas with under-performing fixed-route service, or upgrading paratransit / dial-a-ride.
• Leverage Via's proprietary datasets to continuously optimize services by providing detailed and action-oriented insights; you will help ensure the success of Via's global deployments.
• Build insightful analyses and dashboards to identify opportunities and track progress.
• Contribute to innovation-oriented transit consulting projects to help communities study and design forward-looking, multimodal transportation and transit systems.
• Contribute to product development, both internal and consumer-facing, to enhance service performance and our partners' user experience.

Who You Are :

Compensation and Benefits

We're Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We're driven by a simple mission : to create modern and efficient public transportation systems that provide far greater access to jobs, healthcare, and education. With our best in class suite of products, we make transit thrive.

Our teams of worldclass engineers, data-scientists, product managers, operations specialists, marketers, transit experts and more bring cutting-edge AI-powered software and innovative technology-enabled operations to our partners across the globe. Founded in 2012, Via builds solutions to digitize, automate, and enable data-driven decision making for entire transportation networks; fixed-route buses, microtransit, paratransit, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and more.

If you're excited to be at the forefront of modernizing the future of transportation, are up for solving tough problems, and willing to become / already are a transit nerd, we are the place for you. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.