Head of Logistics

Mapbox is building a live location platform. Our maps represent the ever-evolving world, accessing, aggregating, and adapting anonymous data from millions of sensors and phones in real-time. Mapbox has the exciting opportunity to power devices and products across the next frontier in location-based data. Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, tracking your personal best mile on Strava, sending snaps on Snapchat, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, Mapbox is the location and maps within those apps. We’re changing how people move by live-mapping the world. 

We are builders. The Logistics team is a group of innovators creating solutions to challenges in the last mile delivery space from resource planning to delivery execution and beyond--and we are growing. We solve complex geospatial data problems and leverage algorithms and statistical analysis for use cases ranging from turn-by-turn navigation to delivery route planning for fleets of thousands of trucks. Our services are at the heart of the operations of our customers’ businesses. We get people, products, and services from start to finish effectively and on time whether it’s delivering meals or going on a road trip. Our customers are primarily developers, like us. We also sell to more business oriented users and know we have users with multiple needs; as such, we build and ship solutions from data to APIs to SDKs to applications.

What You’ll Do

• Own the global logistics business for Mapbox, including defining the addressable market, winning expansion strategies and executing against the opportunities you define
• Seize the opportunity to build a business with an existing technology and customer foundation to fully realize the true market potential across last mile delivery
• Drive the vision, strategy, build and commercial success for a technology portfolio spanning multivariate route optimization, matrix resource matching and turn-by-turn delivery execution
• Build and manage a global team of API Engineers, Application Engineers, and Product Managers in the US and Europe to ship world-class logistics solutions
• Develop the necessary level of talent in your team to succeed in your mission of establishing a portfolio of world-class logistics solutions
• Leverage building blocks across the Mapbox portfolio to address the fullest spectrum of the logistics market--but don’t be constrained; identify white space opportunities that we must build, buy or partner our way into
• Develop pricing constructs and go-to-market strategies that enable rapid adoption and revenue growth both in the volume and scale of your customer base
• Identify and engage anchor customers to best understand pain points, build solutions that solve them, and foster adoption within these marquee accounts

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 10+ years of technology experience, 5+ years of experience in logistics, 3+ years of managing a team of teams
• Product, Engineering, and Business Development successes -- strongly weighted towards Product and/or Business Development, but must have technical prowess and comfort
• Experience with last mile delivery and use cases covering: routing optimization, resource matching, asset/fleet management, NOC, driver safety, network optimization.
• Experience creating and scaling software businesses
• Proven ability to build teams from ~5 people to ~50 people
• An entrepreneurial drive coupled with technology prowess and scrappy business development skills
• Experience collaborating across organizations
• Unrelenting customer focus

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

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