Account Director, Central US (Remote)

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 Partner Success, you’ll be the face and voice of Via for our partners both internally and externally. In this dynamic role, you’ll build genuine and durable customer relationships while converting those relationships into opportunities for long-term revenue growth. You will serve as our partners’ trusted advisor by providing strategic guidance on operational, go-to-market, and product-related issues. Simultaneously, you will be an internal advocate for partners with Via by championing for new products and capabilities to facilitate the expansion of each partner’s service size and scope. This is a quota carrying role.

This is a remote-first role based in the US Central region. We're ideally looking for candidates in Chicago or the broader Midwest, but are open to other locations including Texas.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop a vision and strategy for partners by assessing their strengths and weaknesses to assist them in setting and achieving ambitious goals
• Build deep and trusting long-term relationships with partners by identifying partner pain points, providing solutions, and recognizing opportunities for service growth and revenue generation
• Analyze daily, weekly, and long-term service performance data to provide partners with actionable recommendations that improve their services’ quality, efficiency, and growth
• Negotiate and sign contract renewals and service expansions to increase year-on-year revenue from each partnership
• Strategically navigate your market’s unique landscape using research strong analytical skills to build compelling, data-driven business cases for our platform and demonstrate our value proposition across a range of verticals.
• Be a thought partner to clients by educating and consulting with them to develop regional transit plans and find funding mechanisms within your market.

Who You Are:

• You have 10+ years of client facing experience with a record of achievement in the Sales, Business Development, Consulting, or similar space with preference for candidates who have worked with the public sector. 
• Relationship builder who remains calm and collected when facing crisis or criticism and celebrates partners’ successes with them
• Intuitive communicator; whether in customer conversations, product presentations, or written proposals, you always strike the right tone and communicate persuasively.
• Quantitatively-inclined and data savvy; you may not be a Tableau expert, but you enjoy drawing quick, insightful conclusions from complex data sets, asking critical questions, and synthesizing raw numbers into simple, actionable recommendations
• Superb commercial intuition and exceptional judgment -- you know when to push and when to yield in maximizing the value of a potential deal.
• A reliable, motivated self-starter with a passionate growth mentality. You enjoy fast-paced environments, aren’t deterred by setbacks or pivots, and thrive in roles requiring a very high degree of responsibility.
• An excellent team player; you’re a meaningful individual contributor, and a mentor to others on your team. You view successes as team efforts, and enjoy working with others.
• Expertise in renewals, up-selling, and developing relationships with senior level officials and executives
• Must be willing to travel 25-50% as needed

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
• Base salary Range: $160,000-$200,000

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.