Director, Strategy & Operations

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.

As Director, Strategy & Operations, you will own both strategy and day-to-day operations for Via’s impactful partnerships in the DACH region. This is an opportunity for a truly outstanding entrepreneur to ensure our services are a success and help shape the strategic direction of the business. You’ll need to be a strategic thinker, able to execute complex deals, an operations expert, fantastic people leader, and an exceptionally creative problem solver.

What You’ll Do

• Take full ownership of a diverse portfolio of markets within the DACH region; set ambitious targets and chase results  
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a collaborative, cohesive, and energetic culture
• Design operational strategy and push execution; continuously working to scale processes and systems to drive growth
• Be the face of Via; develop relationships with strategic partners, public officials, and large suppliers
• Translate business agreements into fully operational business operations - similarly, identify operational improvement opportunities and transform them into business value 
• Take on a key leadership position and work closely with various leaders across Via to build a united, dynamic, and engaging team environment.
• Ensure operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and an unbelievable product every day

Who You Are

• An exceptional leader: people love working with you and for you
• Independent self-starter: you thrive in fast-paced environments and feel comfortable with a very high level of responsibility
• A great communicator in English and German: you can lead discussions in both languages at C2 level and have the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Detail-oriented executor: you’re obsessively action-oriented
• Savvy and tactful: you intuitively find the right tone in every situation
• Entrepreneurial: you’re excited to build a new business from the ground up and shape the strategic direction of our company
• A minimum of 6-10 years of work experience, prior P&L management and/or commercial deal-making experience a plus  
• Willing to travel occasionally for work

What We Offer:

• Joining a global employer with over 700 mobility deployments in 40+ countries
• Becoming part of a company that was awarded for its commitment to social good
• Competitive compensation, including stock options
• Hybrid work and a lovely office situated in the heart of Berlin, at Rosa-Luxemburg Straße
• Urban Sports Club membership
• 30 vacation days a year

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.