Strategy & Operations Principal
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17 days ago
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Job Summary
Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single persons daily commute to reducing humanitys collective environmental footprint weve got huge goals.
As Strategy & Operations Principal you will lead and optimize on-the-ground operations ensuring top-quality service for Vias partners and riders across the DACH region. Your portfolio will include sprinti Germanys largest on-demand public transit system. You will shape operational strategy tackle complex challenges and work closely with cross-functional teams to drive growth. This is a hands-on high-impact role for a leader who thrives in fast-paced dynamic environments.
What Youll Do:
- Own the performance of a selected portfolio of our DACH services meeting operational goals while ensuring an exceptional customer experience.
- Identify and resolve issues in real time coordinating with on-the-ground teams and cross-functional partners to keep operations running smoothly.
- Drive strategic initiatives with external partners and internal teams leveraging insights from active services to enhance processes and shape the future of our operations.
- Lead core and field teams fostering a collaborative high-energy and accountable culture.
- Partner closely with teams across Viaincluding Strategy Product Partnerships and Operationsto improve scalability and operational excellence.
- Recommend strategies that balance service quality efficiency and service-level commitments.
- Analyze data track key metrics and prepare reports to inform decisions optimize resources and continuously improve performance.
Who You Are:
- Entrepreneurial operator: equally comfortable setting strategic direction and rolling up your sleeves to execute. You take full ownership to drive your services forward every day.
- Financially savvy: skilled in financial modeling and comfortable using data to guide strategic and operational decisions.
- Stakeholder-savvy: able to lead discussions and simplify complex concepts for any audience managing nuanced customer regulatory and operational relationships with native-level or C2 German and English.
- Exceptional leader: people enjoy working with you and for youyou naturally foster collaboration trust and growth.
- Data-informed operator: you identify trends and use insights to improve efficiency and outcomes.
Agile and adaptable: thrive in fast-paced environments embrace change and jump in hands-on when needed. - Experienced: bring 610 years of relevant experience from startups tech consulting finance or similar industries that informs your decisions.
- Problem solver and executor: you dont settle for the status quodetail-oriented action-focused and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
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
- A hybrid work and a lovely office situated in the heart of Berlin in Mitte
- Weekly team lunch and breakfast
- Urban Sports Club membership
- 30 vacation days a year
Were Via and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. Were 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 youre 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 doesnt 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.
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Key Skills
- Marketing
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Customer Segmentation
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Investment Banking
- Strategic Planning
- Financial Modeling
- Customer relationship management
- Management Consulting
- Google Suite
- Analytics
About Company
We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. Our guiding principle is simple: we know that the future of transportation is safe, dynamic, shared public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across congested cities, complements existing transit i ... View more
