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Salary: USD 200,000 - 250,000 / annual
Via Transportation is seeking a Director of Product to lead the next generation of Remix, their premier transit planning and scheduling platform used by transit agencies worldwide. Remix enables agencies to design networks, model scenarios, and optimize service across fixed route, paratransit, microtransit, and emerging modes.
In this high-ownership role, you will define and drive the vision for how transit agencies transition from static schedules to data-driven, dynamically optimized operations. You will own the end-to-end product experience from strategic planning through live execution, directly impacting how millions of riders experience public transit daily.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and own the product vision and roadmap for Remix as the global standard for multimodal transit planning and scheduling
- Build the framework for data-driven scheduling, enabling agencies to optimize driver and vehicle time through analysis of ridership patterns, operational constraints, and service goals
- Deeply understand and incorporate labor union rules, collective bargaining agreements, and workforce regulations into the product in a structured yet flexible manner
- Connect planning and scheduling seamlessly to live operations, reducing gaps between scheduled and executed service
- Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and go-to-market teams to move from vision to shipped product with clear milestones
- Engage directly with transit planners, schedulers, and operations leaders to surface unmet needs and validate product direction
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging regulations, and competitive dynamics
Requirements:
- 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex enterprise software products
- Track record of shipping high-quality products for sophisticated, workflow-heavy enterprise environments where execution risk is high
- Systems thinker who can balance strategic vision with operational detail
- Strong ability to simplify complexity and translate divergent customer needs into clean, scalable product decisions
- Deep empathy for end users (planners, schedulers, dispatchers) and ability to design with their real working context in mind
- Quick ability to become technically fluent in scheduling and operations data models (blocks, runs, trips, stops, vehicles, duties, pairings)
- Strong, credible voice in technical architecture decisions; capable of evaluating tradeoffs and advocating for platform choices
- Experience with resource management, labor scheduling, or workforce optimization software is a strong plus
- Experience in transportation, transit, or logistics is a plus but not required; intellectual curiosity and ability to learn technical domains quickly matter more
