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 a Strategic Account Manager, you’ll be the face and voice of Via for our partners both internally and externally. You’ll work collaboratively with Mayors, CEOs, Heads of Innovation and Sustainability Managers to develop, deploy and optimize advanced transportation networks in communities around Canada. You’ll be responsible for consulting on complex and impactful transportation services and converting that work into long term revenue growth.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the success of advanced transportation systems in our partner’s cities, acting as the primary point of contact for executive city and agency leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor and consultant to our partners, helping to convert their ideas and community needs into revenue opportunities for Via
- Contribute to the strategic decision-making, rigorous project planning, and entrepreneurial approach required to ensure success of Via solutions in a given city
- Deliver insightful analysis from large quantities of data produced from our platform, helping executives such as Mayors and agency CEOs decipher mobility, demographic, and sustainability trends within their communities
- Negotiate multi-year and highly complex partnership agreements between Via and public agencies
Who You Are:
- You have a minimum of 7+ years of relevant client facing work experience, including (but not limited to) consulting, consultative customer success, or success at a high growth company.
- Fluency in French and English is required for frequent client interaction.
- You enjoy fast-paced environments, aren’t deterred by setbacks or pivots, and thrive in roles requiring a very high degree of responsibility.
- You are eager to take on formal and informal leadership roles within Via and have a desire to grow quickly.
- Entrepreneurial relationship builder who remains calm and collected when faced with highly complex, politically sensitive situations.
- Quantitatively-inclined and data savvy; you may not be a SQL expert, but you enjoy drawing quick, insightful conclusions from complex data sets, asking critical questions, and synthesizing raw numbers into simple, actionable recommendations.
- A reliable, motivated self-starter with a passionate growth mentality. An excellent team player; you’re a meaningful individual contributor, and a mentor to others on your team. You view successes as a team effort, and enjoy working with 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: CAD$130K-$140K
- 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 world-class 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.
