Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the development and launch of a new product that helps transit agencies deliver reliable and efficient service to their communities. This role offers the unique opportunity to create from the ground up while leveraging the strengths of an established platform to maximize impact. You will drive this new product from inception through execution, collaborating closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other cross-functional team members to shape this new product.
What You'll Do:
- Understand transit and transportation planners’ needs through frequent customer interviews and tracked customer requests.
- Synthesize these needs into a product strategy & prioritization framework with clear measurable goals and get buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders.
- Work closely with the engineering and design teams to scope, design, build, and iterate features that advance this strategy
- Work with marketing and success teams to communicate and roll out this new product to customers
- Measure the results, learn, and iterate
- Stay current with industry trends to drive innovation and prepare the team for emerging challenges.
Who You Are:
- An experienced product manager, with a minimum of 5-7 years of experience in startups or large companies operating on a global scale
- A “simplifier” who breaks down complex logical and technical concepts and readily finds product-oriented solutions to divergent customer requests
- You can quickly and independently learn about new, highly technical and specialized domains
- A team player, with great communication/listening skills and a can-do attitude
- You have a natural empathy for users and instincts for what makes a great software product
- Demonstrated success in handling an end-to-end product lifecycle with the ability to drive product planning, development, and launch
- You are entrepreneurial, comfortable with ambiguity and have a bias for action
- You take a deeply collaborative approach to your work
- You have passion and energy that inspires others
Compensation and Benefits:
- Final salary will be determined by the candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Salary reflected does not include equity or variable pay, where applicable
- Salary Range: $150,000-$200,000
- We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans and 401K matching
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.