Jobs at Via

Coordinate Via’s full recruiting process and candidate experience, including interview scheduling, candidate communications, onsite logistics, applicant tracking system updates, interviewer follow-up, and process improvements. The role also supports resume reviews, candidate recommendations, and initial phone screens while partnering with hiring teams and representing Via’s employer brand.

Corporate Counsel will support global commercial transactions, draft and negotiate complex transit technology and SaaS contracts, manage vendor and strategic partner agreements, and advise cross-functional teams on legal risks, approval processes, policies, and company priorities. The role requires strong transactional expertise, contract drafting and negotiation skills, business judgment, analytical ability, and the flexibility to provide broad in-house legal support.

Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic, cross-functional software and mobility initiatives. Responsibilities include defining requirements, managing scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, milestones, and stakeholder communications across engineering, product, QA, and business teams. The role oversees multiple concurrent projects, resolves delivery challenges, improves project management processes, tracks KPIs, and uses AI tools to automate reporting, risk detection, and workflows.

Develop mathematical models and scalable online algorithms for real-time optimization and automated dispatch. Build efficient decision-making systems that optimize transportation utilization and rider service quality at scale. Analyze complex operational data, translate real-world challenges into actionable models, and collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to deploy practical solutions.

Drive full-cycle sales for Remix transportation planning software across North American public and private sectors. Identify prospects, build stakeholder relationships, develop data-driven business cases, consult on transit planning and funding, lead marketing campaigns and events, negotiate partnerships, and communicate customer insights to product teams.

Lead the redesign of Via’s public transit dispatch and booking platform across on-demand, paratransit, school bus, and fixed-line services. Design accessible, data-rich workflows for transit agencies, dispatchers, riders, caregivers, and students. Conduct research and usability testing, evolve design systems, collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering, and advance AI-assisted design from research and concepts through prototypes and production-ready code.

The Talent Acquisition Principal will source and recruit technical talent, partner with recruiters and hiring managers, build diverse candidate pipelines, conduct preliminary interviews, improve candidate experience, analyze sourcing metrics, and develop scalable talent acquisition processes. The role requires strong research, communication, analytical, project management, and Boolean search skills in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Own global hiring strategy, build proactive candidate pipelines, partner with hiring managers, and improve recruiting processes. Use talent-market research, funnel metrics, and workflow automation to identify bottlenecks and enhance candidate experience. Develop initiatives, events, partnerships, and content that strengthen employer brand and attract high-quality talent while increasing the operational rigor and impact of Via’s Talent function.

As an Expansion Associate Principal, you will launch new markets, manage operations, and facilitate partner relationships while using data for strategic decision-making.

Develop advanced Bayesian models and stochastic simulations for business modeling, product innovation, user behavior, and system performance. Manage analytical projects end to end, including data preparation, model development, validation, deployment, and proof-of-concept applications. Communicate methodologies, progress, and findings through reports and stakeholder presentations.

The Expansion Principal will oversee the launch of new deployments, manage teams, ensure quality, and support partner development in various markets, while leveraging data for insights. Travel is required up to 2-3 weeks per month.

Conducts market and customer research for Via Student Transit, analyzing transportation trends, competitors, procurement needs, and adoption data. Develops go-to-market recommendations, product positioning, messaging, marketing materials, outreach campaigns, webinars, blog content, and RFP responses. Partners with internal teams on proposals and communications while using customer feedback and marketing performance data to improve engagement and competitiveness.

Supports the design, launch, and optimization of technology-enabled public transit services. Analyzes proprietary data to develop recommendations for Via’s agency partners, advises on transit strategy, manages product feedback and expectations, and supports partnerships and sales efforts. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, rigorous project planning, clear communication, and data-driven problem solving.

Supports invoicing, purchase orders, payments, vendor contracting, contract tracking, filing, scheduling, communications, and general administrative operations. The role requires proactive task ownership, bilingual English and Japanese communication, attention to detail, independent execution, and comfort managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment. It is part-time, combining weekly onsite work in Tokyo with remote work, and may convert to full-time.

Leads global corporate IT and infrastructure, including employee support, Freshservice, identity and access management, networks, endpoints, enterprise applications, facilities technology, and launch readiness. Manages vendors, budgets, procurement, automation, AI tools, security controls, continuity, and recovery procedures while developing the IT team and roadmap.

Lead product strategy and development for Via’s public-sector transit operations platform. Own the admin console and end-to-end rider experiences, build roadmaps, prioritize customer needs, partner with engineering, and coordinate cross-functional teams. Improve agency efficiency, rider satisfaction, support resolution, and transit accessibility through data-informed product decisions and iterative releases.

Build and scale optimization and backend systems for public transportation planning and scheduling products. Own features from concept through production, improve system performance and reliability, and collaborate with designers, data scientists, algorithm researchers, product managers, transit planners, schedulers, and customers. Contribute to engineering architecture, best practices, productivity tools, and code quality while applying software engineering to optimization, geospatial computation, machine learning, and AI.

Leads and grows a full-stack engineering team building transit planning and scheduling applications. Owns technical direction across geospatial data, React interfaces, backend systems, and optimization algorithms; partners with product, design, and customers; mentors engineers; improves engineering processes, CI/CD, reliability, and scalability; and collaborates on shared infrastructure and APIs.

Leads an engineering team building AI-powered internal products and an employee-facing development platform. Responsibilities include defining architecture and engineering standards, applying AI-native development practices, establishing integrations, permissions, infrastructure, testing, deployment, observability, and governance, partnering with business teams to identify high-impact opportunities, and recruiting and developing engineers.

Own the Remix transit planning platform roadmap, usability, scalability, flexibility, and AI-led insights. Define platform vision, prioritize cross-module features, integrate analytics into operational workflows, and ensure feedback loops between planning, scheduling, live operations, and performance data. Partner with engineering, design, and data science; engage customers; evaluate technical architecture tradeoffs; and deliver high-quality features for complex enterprise workflows.