Senior Partner Success Manager
At a glance
Senior Channel & Partnerships role at Via. Chicago · full-time · $145,000–$165,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Own partner transportation services and serve as the main contact for leadership and key stakeholders
- Secure renewals, contract expansions, and upsells by negotiating with senior partner stakeholders
- Turn partner needs into service improvements using Via’s platform and product capabilities
- Review service data over daily, weekly, and longer periods to guide quality, efficiency, and growth decisions
- Represent partners internally while advancing products that broaden their service reach and scope
What you bring
- At least six years of relevant experience, including direct client-facing work
- Strong relationship skills and composure when handling crises or partner criticism
- Confidence drawing practical recommendations from complex datasets and asking probing questions
- A self-directed, resilient team contributor who enjoys mentoring and cross-functional work
- Willingness to travel often and meet partners in person
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior individual-contributor role centered on partner relationships, commercial growth, operational guidance, and data-led decisions. The job is remote-first and supports Via’s Central US market, with candidates considered across locations including Chicago, Texas, Michigan, and Ohio. Frequent travel and face-to-face partner meetings are part of the role.
From the employer
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 a Senior Partner Success Manager, you’ll be the face and voice of Via for our partners both internally and externally. In this dynamic role, you’ll be responsible for building 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 remote-first role supporting Via’s Central US market. We’re open to candidates based in a wide range of locations across the country, including Chicago and cities across Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and beyond.
What You'll Do
- Own the success of transportation services across your partner portfolio, serving as a primary point of contact for partner leadership and key stakeholders.
- Drive revenue growth across your portfolio by securing renewals, expanding existing contracts, and landing upsells through negotiations with senior stakeholders to grow the business year over year.
- Act as a trusted advisor to partners, translating their needs into concrete service improvements and using Via’s full platform to help them build better, more effective transportation services.
- Analyze service performance data on a daily, weekly, and long-term basis, turning complex datasets into clear strategic decisions that improve quality, efficiency, and growth.
- Advocate internally for your partners, working cross-functionally to champion new products and capabilities that expand the size and scope of their services.
Who You Are
- You have 6+ years of relevant work experience, including experience working directly with clients.
- You’re a natural relationship builder who stays calm and collected when facing a crisis or criticism, and celebrates your partners’ successes with them.
- You’re quantitatively inclined and data savvy. You may not be a Tableau expert, but you enjoy drawing quick, insightful conclusions from complex datasets, asking critical questions, and turning raw numbers into simple, actionable recommendations.
- You’re a reliable, motivated self-starter with a strong growth mindset.
- You enjoy fast-paced environments, aren’t deterred by setbacks or pivots, and thrive in roles that require a high degree of responsibility.
- You’re an excellent team player and a meaningful individual contributor. You enjoy mentoring others, see success as a team effort, and like working with people across the organization.
- You’re comfortable with frequent travel and excited to connect with partners face-to-face.
What We Offer:
- Base salary range: $145,000-$165,000, determined by experience, knowledge, and skills. Total compensation also includes variable pay and equity.
- Comprehensive health coverage, with low-cost dental and vision plans.
- A 401(k) with a generous company match and vesting.
- Fully paid parental leave for new parents, with extended leave options.
- Additional benefits (mental health, pet insurance, and other wellness perks).
- 20 days of paid time off (PTO) annually.
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.
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Via is an equal opportunity employer.
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