Vice President of Technology, DAT iQ

About DAT

DAT  is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 45 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 400 million freights posted in 2022, and a database of $150 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, with additional offices in Missouri, Oregon, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see   .

The Opportunity

DAT's rate data is the reference price for truckload freight, and brokers, shippers, and carriers price against it every day. DAT iQ is the analytics product suite built on that position. Holding that position takes a leader who can sit with a brokerage's pricing team and explain how our rates are built. That leader owns the DAT iQ portfolio and the teams behind it, and partners with our broker and shipper leadership on where analytics takes the business.

Reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the DAT iQ product and engineering organization. Develop the product managers and engineering leaders who report to you, hire against the gaps, and set the standard for how the group operates.
• Strengthen the product management practice. Raise the bar on how this team does discovery, decides what to build, defines success before it ships, and measures adoption after. Own the roadmap and the prioritization that produces it.
• Own delivery and product quality. Our customers price freight against these numbers every day, so accuracy, latency, and reliability are the product. Carry accountability for what ships, when it ships, and how it performs in production.
• Set the analytics strategy and deliver against it. Define how we extend and defend our data advantage, and translate that into an architecture and a roadmap the business can commit to.
• Turn models into products. Partner with our data science organization to take forecasting and rate models from research into production, and own the engineering that makes them dependable at scale.
• Serve as the analytics partner to our segment leadership. Own the products and data their plans depend on, and determine where the portfolio leans when broker and shipper priorities diverge.
• Be in front of customers. Spend real time with brokers and shippers in their own operations, represent DAT iQ at industry events, and turn what you hear from our customer advisory forums into portfolio decisions.
• Own how analytics is packaged and priced. Work through metering and packaging with our commercial and pricing teams as the portfolio evolves

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Leadership of product and engineering organizations. You have led both functions together, developed managers and senior individual contributors, and hired well at that level. You give a team strategic and organizational direction without absorbing their work.
• Delivery discipline. You have a record of predictable delivery and durable production quality, and you can say what you measure to know whether a team is healthy and why those are the right measures.
• Product management depth. You have built or materially raised a product management practice: discovery, prioritization, defining success before launch, and measuring adoption after.
• Freight market expertise. You understand how the truckload spot and contract markets operate: how capacity moves, why lanes behave differently, what bid season does to pricing, and how a broker decides what to accept.
• Fluency with data and models. You have built or governed rate or forecasting models. Building them yourself is not required, but you can judge whether one is ready for production and hold a substantive conversation about sampling, coverage, latency, and revision behavior.
• Sustained customer engagement. You have owned direct relationships with customers over years, meeting them in their own operations and bringing what you learned back into product and market decisions.
• Commercial judgment. You understand how a brokerage makes money and where a number changes a margin decision, and you can reason through how analytics is metered, packaged, and priced as a portfolio matures.
• Influence across the business. You can write a strategy that holds up in front of a leadership team, work with segment leaders whose plans compete with each other, and hold a standard with senior peers without taking over their decisions.

What Will Set You Apart

• Established relationships with pricing leaders at brokerages.
• Experience inside a brokerage or a shipper, using rate data to make pricing decisions.
• Experience designing how data products are delivered to AI agents instead of to people.
• Fluency with AI tools in your own day-to-day work.

Why DAT?

DAT is an award winning employer of choice.

For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
• An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $303,372-$407,060 + target bonus.  DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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