Head of Transportation, Dallas

Nevoya

1d • Remote

About The Position

As Director of Transportation, you are the operational backbone of Nevoya. You own the dispatch team, the driver workforce, and the daily planning engine that keeps freight moving on time and customers happy. This is a high-ownership role: you will manage the complexity of a growing carrier, schedule changes, operational exceptions, driver performance, and customer commitments, while building the systems and habits that allow the operation to scale.
You come from the carrier world. You know what dispatch looks like under pressure, what it takes to build a driver team that is safe, productive, and retained, and how to turn operational chaos into structured process. You also embrace technology as a genuine tool and get excited when a new system actually makes something work better.
This is a remote role for Texas-based candidates, with 15% travel required.

Requirements

• 7+ years in transportation operations with significant carrier-side experience. You have run dispatch, managed CDL drivers, and owned operational outcomes.
• Proven track record managing a dispatch team (5+ years of experience leading teams): setting standards, developing dispatchers, and building a high-accountability environment.
• Direct CDL driver management experience: hiring, coaching, corrective action, and retention.
• Deep knowledge of DOT/FMCSA compliance: HOS, driver qualification, drug and alcohol program, and ELD requirements.
• Experience in truckload operations; drayage or port experience a strong plus.
• Demonstrated ability to manage operational planning in a dynamic environment, schedule changes, exceptions, and competing priorities are your normal.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with electric vehicle fleet operations or energy-aware logistics planning.
• Familiarity with modern TMS platforms (Samsara, McLeod, MercuryGate, PortPro).
• Prior experience with California drayage or port/intermodal operations.
• Background managing unionized driver workforces.
• Spanish language proficiency, a meaningful asset in our operating markets.

Responsibilities

• Dispatch Team Management:
• Directly lead and develop a team of dispatchers and load planners, setting expectations, providing real-time coaching, and managing performance.
• Build and enforce dispatch protocols: load assignment, driver communication, check-calls, and exception handling.
• Own the daily ops board, ensuring all loads are covered, drivers are utilized, and the team is responding proactively to changes, not reactively to fires.
• Triage and resolve operational escalations quickly: missed pick-ups, late deliveries, driver no-shows, equipment issues, and customer-impacting events.
• Establish clear shift handoff standards so nothing falls through the cracks across coverage hours.
• Use Nevoya's TMS as the single source of truth for the dispatch team, champion adoption, enforce data hygiene, and ensure the team is working in the system, not around it.
• Operational Planning:
• Own the weekly and daily load planning process: matching driver availability, HOS constraints, equipment locations, and customer pickup/delivery windows to build executable plans.
• Anticipate and manage schedule disruptions, weather, breakdowns, driver call-outs, customer changes, with contingency plans ready before problems compound.
• Develop and maintain driver schedules that balance utilization, regulatory compliance, and driver wellbeing.
• Coordinate with the sales and customer success teams to ensure upcoming freight commitments are operationally feasible before they are confirmed.
• Identify and eliminate recurring operational bottlenecks: lanes that consistently underperform, drivers who are chronically underutilized, handoffs that break down repeatedly.
• Build planning cadences and tools that allow the team to look ahead, not just manage the day in front of them.
• Driver Management and Productivity:
• Serve as the operational leader for all CDL drivers, setting performance expectations, managing conduct, and handling day-to-day driver relations.
• Track and actively manage driver productivity metrics: miles per day, load completion rates, idle time, on-time percentage, and utilization.
• Lead structured driver performance conversations, recognizing top performers and addressing underperformance directly and constructively.
• Manage driver onboarding: qualification file review, orientation, equipment training, and first-week check-ins.
• Partner with HR on driver retention, compensation benchmarking, and corrective action processes.
• Be accessible to drivers and build a culture where drivers feel heard and supported, because driver retention starts with leadership.
• Safety and Compliance:
• Coach dispatchers to proactively monitor HOS and ELD data as part of their daily workflow, catching potential violations before they become driver or DOT issues.
• Ensure the team has the tools, training, and habits to keep driver qualification files, drug and alcohol program tracking, and vehicle inspection records current and accurate.
• Hold dispatchers accountable for addressing unsafe driver behaviors in the moment.
• Make sure incident and accident response is handled correctly by the team: proper documentation, timely reporting, and appropriate escalation when needed.
• Build a culture on the dispatch floor where safety is a shared standard, not a compliance checkbox.
• Review safety performance data regularly and use it to coach the team, identify patterns, and drive continuous improvement.
• Customer Success and Service Quality:
• Our customers chose Nevoya because we promised a better experience. Your team is the one that delivers on that promise every day.
• Own on-time performance as an operational KPI, track it daily, identify root causes of failures, and drive continuous improvement.
• Serve as the operational partner to the customer success team, providing real-time status on loads, proactive communication on exceptions, and honest root-cause analysis after service failures.
• Ensure dispatchers treat customer communication as part of the job, including proactive check-calls and exception notifications.
• Conduct post-failure reviews on service misses and translate findings into process changes that prevent recurrence.
• Build visibility for customers into the operation and support the team in using Nevoya's platform to provide real-time tracking and accurate ETAs.
• Represent the operational perspective in customer escalations: be credible, composed, and solution-oriented.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, meaningful equity in an early-stage venture-backed company, and comprehensive benefits.
• Direct access to leadership and a real seat at the table as we scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed