Director of Mobility Consulting

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 of Mobility Consulting, you’ll be on the cutting-edge of the mobility revolution, heading Via’s dedicated mobility innovation consulting and planning team, Via Strategies. Leading a team of exceptionally capable and passionate mobility consultants and planners, you’ll combine exceptional analytical skills with Via’s sophisticated transit planning and simulation technology and best practices. As a key partner to cities and transit agencies, this role focuses on delivering forward-thinking transit and mobility strategies and designing optimized services across the globe.

What You'll Do:

• Lead a team of highly qualified and capable mobility consultants and planners
• Collaborate with Via leadership to define a future strategy for Via’s consulting and professional services business
• Develop and carry out a business development plan to expand Via’s consulting offering
• Oversee complex, multimodal transportation analysis to help communities study and design forward-looking, intermodal transportation and transit systems.
• Identify where and how on-demand transit can improve a multi-modal network by 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.
• Bring analytical rigor and planning expertise to Via’s business development process by designing customized mobility services for potential partners (from major transit agencies to small cities) based on their geographies, land-use patterns, policy objectives, and budgets.
• Optimize Via’s partners’ service by providing detailed and action-oriented advice about quality of service, productivity, and fixed-route transit integration opportunities; you will help ensure the success of Via’s global deployments.
• Identify new product requirements that would allow Via to better meet the requirements of cities and transit agencies. 

Who You Are:

• Passion for transportation and improving access to mobility in urban, suburban, and rural communities around the world.
• Minimum of eight years of consulting, transportation planning, or other relevant experience; you’re comfortable project managing complex strategic and spatial analysis and are eager to apply your skills in new and exciting ways.
• Experience gathering and analyzing a broad range of economic, demographic, and other data.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, especially the ability to break down and communicate complex problems to non-subject matter experts.
• Experience managing complex and innovative mobility and transportation consulting projects.
• Graduate level degree in transportation planning, urban planning, civil engineering or similar field strongly preferred.

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: $170,000-210,000 per year
• 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.