Director Of Transportation Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Deep experience in freight, logistics, transportation, fleet, supply chain, or transportation technology.
• Strong understanding of shippers, carriers, brokers, forwarders, 3PLs, TMS platforms, freight marketplaces, and logistics providers.
• Ability to clearly explain transportation workflows, commercial relationships, and payment challenges.
• Practical knowledge of commercial payments, fleet payments, invoice payments, virtual cards, embedded payments, or transportation payment solutions.
• Ability to influence cross-functionally and work effectively in a highly matrixed organization.
• Ability to translate fragmented payment pain points into scalable commercial opportunities.
• Comfort connecting customer needs to product capabilities, business cases, and measurable growth outcomes.
• Experience developing go-to-market strategies, market entry plans, partnership strategies, or product strategies.
• Strong analytical skills to assess market dynamics, prioritize opportunities, and build executive-ready recommendations.
• Ability to balance market insight, customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and commercial discipline.
• Clear communication skills with senior leaders, customers, partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Builder mindset and ability to define white-space opportunities and move from insight to action.
• High ownership, urgency, and commitment to quality, impact, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead Mastercard’s freight and logistics go-to-market strategy across air, sea, road, and rail.
• Identify industry trends, customer pain points, technology shifts, and competitive dynamics shaping freight and logistics payment flows.
• Serve as the internal freight and logistics expert by developing narratives, use cases, and opportunity priorities by segment, market, and product fit.
• Partner with global and regional Business Development teams to identify, qualify, and advance freight and logistics opportunities.
• Support client conversations with industry expertise, payment flow knowledge, and consultative guidance.
• Build enablement content connecting Mastercard products to freight and logistics needs.
• Identify strategic partnerships that expand Mastercard’s access, distribution, relevance, and acceptance in freight and logistics.
• Engage brokers, 3PLs, forwarders, carriers, shippers, TMS providers, fleet platforms, marketplaces, fintechs, and payment providers.
• Develop partnership business cases, commercial models, and execution plans to accelerate adoption of Mastercard-powered payment solutions.
• Translate market needs into product requirements, capability gaps, and roadmap recommendations.
• Work with global product teams to shape solutions for transportation payment use cases.
• Represent customer and market perspectives while assessing how Mastercard capabilities apply to freight and logistics payment flows.
• Develop go-to-market plans connecting industry priorities, customer needs, partner opportunities, and Mastercard capabilities.
• Support market sizing, business cases, opportunity prioritization, and growth planning for freight and logistics payments.
• Create thought leadership, executive narratives, and customer-facing materials about transportation payments.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Flexible spending account and health savings account
• Paid leaves, including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
• 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, prorated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• Deferred compensation for eligible roles
• Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
• Tuition reimbursement eligibility