📝 Responsibilities

• You’ll help get new French partners on the train, and keep it moving. France is one of Transit’s fastest-growing markets — our partners range from small regional authorities operating buses for a few thousand people, to large, multi-region giants that help millions of people get around. You’ll make sure each partner feels at home at Transit and own these relationships. From the intricacies of onboarding, to sharing best practices, to day-to-day relationship maintenance

• Make sure your partners are well supported: you’ll be their first line of defense for issues, and their trusted confidant for feature requests, questions, concerns, and partnership improvements

• Make partners love us: you’ll use regular calls, emails, and visits as a way to build rapport and trust, and develop a sixth sense for anticipating issues — ones that Transit’s software can solve before anyone else

• Keep partners informed: you’ll develop a mastery of our features and enterprise tools (including our unreleased ones 🤫). You’ll know each of our French partner’s core strengths, areas for improvement, and how Transit might be able to speed improvements along

• Be our eyes and ears for France: you’ll share insights on operational challenges, anticipate needs, and recommend solutions that set us up for successful long-term partnerships

• Educate various partner teams (marketing, IT, operations, etc) and make it easy for them to help themselves. You’ll hold our French partners by the hand whenever it’s necessary, in order to get them up to speed, share best practices, and answer their frequently-asked questions

• Develop strong ties across Transit’s organization, particularly with our user support team, communication people, GTFS fanaticos, and web/mobile devs, so we can resolve technical and non-technical challenges with speed and aplomb

• As time allows: pitch in on needs for emerging French and European markets. This may involve setting up pilots, attending the occasional conference, hunting down RFPs, giving presentations, etc.

• Be the voice of our partners within the company! The service delivery team is responsible for amplifying the ‘Voice of the Customer’ within Transit. Your role will make you the voice of some VIP customers (e.g. a transport authority’s Director of Marketing, or Head of Customer Experience). You’ll champion French partner needs in internal discussions, and be Transit’s eyes and ears for strategic developments within partner organizations

✅ Requirements

• At least 5 years in B2B or B2C support, customer success, account management, consulting, and/or the gumption to convince us that you’d be great for the job. Preference for someone with public transport experience, be it at an authority, or elsewhere

• We're looking for someone who is a self-starter and can manage their own workload with minimal supervision. The ideal candidate will be highly-highly organized, and able to prioritize tasks effectively to meet deadlines

• You can read rooms, chat up the right people, convince them to tell you what they really think

• You’re an empath™ attuned to the highs and lows that folks around you are feeling, with a knack for knowing when (and how) to help

• You’re passionate about teaching, explaining, and presenting

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in French, and professional fluency in English (~B2 level) so you can work with Transit partners who aren’t based in France or Quebec

• Tech-savvy: you aren’t a programmer, but you also don’t have a problem grokking Transit’s various bells and whistles

• You’re not afraid of Excel or playing around with data, graphs, and charts

• Passion for urbanism: you love exploring cities by foot and by bike, you can navigate your city’s public transit system without a map, and you believe free parking should only ever exist on a Monopoly board

• You’re in France! Ideally based out of Paris or Bordeaux (our employees have a small but mighty presence there!)

💯 Would be nice if

• Polyglot! The more languages you can speak, write and understand, the better

• Startup experience: at Transit, life comes at you fast. You’ll have to work well under uncertainty, imperfect information, and goal posts that will occasionally shift

• You have experience working in the public sector or with government partners. (You don’t need to have worked at a transit authority or operator , but it would be a giant plus.)

Don’t feel like all the requirements apply to you but you still think you’d be a great fit for Transit? Don’t hesitate to apply!

💰 Compensation and benefits

€40,000 - €50,000 per year, based on experience

• Stock options

• 5 weeks vacation

• Four-day work week at full-time salary (yes, you read that right)

• Apple laptop and equipment

• $1,600 CAD annual mobility allowance. STM? BIXI? Uber? E-bike? Scooter? Going car-free is free at Transit.

• A training and development budget

• Generous maternal/paternal/parental leave policy. Gotta fill out our tandem bicycles somehow!

• Flexible work hours

• Spend your days surrounded by first-rate teammates and the best view of Montreal and/or [insert exotic Zoom background]

• When you’re in the office: you’ll be in urbanist heaven, surrounded by Mile End’s urban gardens, bike paths, BIXI docks, bus stops, a metro station, and limitless restaurants… cafés… bars… concert halls… bagel boutiques…

• Communal lunch-and-learn with free food in the office each week

👨‍💻 A note on diversity

Public transit is used by overwhelmingly more women and people of colour than other modes of transportation. We try to make sure the diversity of our users is reflected in the team that serves them. Because when we include people of all races, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and identities — we end up building a better app for everyone who uses Transit.

We encourage candidates of all ages, genders, origins and orientations to apply. If you’d like to specify which pronouns you use, feel free to include that in your application email.

And if your lived experience has given you a unique perspective on all things transportation, mobility, accessibility, urbanism? Let us know, and we’ll make sure your application gets the attention it merits.

📬 How to apply

Send your resume to jobs+partnersuccess@transitapp.com along a quick summary of who you are and why you’re interested in the role. We look forward to meeting you!

PS: When you apply, let us know how you heard about the position! Whispers, grapevines, middle-of-the-night Google searches? We’re dying to know.

PPS: Unfortunately, we don't accept in-person applications or singing telegrams. Make your application sing instead!