Vice President of Technology, DAT iQ

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

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.

• 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

• 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…