Strategy & Planning Lead, Fleet Operations (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; hybrid working model with in-person collaboration and remote work

Salary: $171K–$229K

Company

hirify.global is building an AI platform for autonomous driving that learns from real-world experience and integrates with global OEM partners to support scalable vehicle automation from L2+ through L4.

What you will do

• Align Fleet Operations plans with business priorities alongside operational, regional, functional, and Finance leaders.
• Build and evolve workforce availability, vehicle capacity, utilization, cost, and testing models.
• Analyze budgets, spending, resource allocation, operational performance, anomalies, constraints, and variances.
• Coordinate planning inputs, staffing plans, dependencies, vendors, and escalations across regions and functions.
• Structure ambiguous problems, track delivery against goals, and prepare executive-ready presentations.
• Improve planning tools, KPI reporting, processes, and cross-functional workflows for fleet scale.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in investment banking, consulting, business intelligence, strategy, entrepreneurship, or another relevant field.
• Strong analytical and quantitative reasoning skills, including large datasets, model-building, and data-driven insights.
• Strong commercial judgment connecting operational decisions with business outcomes.
• Proven program management skills, including structuring work, managing dependencies, and driving cross-functional delivery.
• Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills for concise, clear, and compelling leadership presentations.
• High ownership, attention to detail, and effective stakeholder management.

Nice to have

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, mobility, logistics, or other fleet-intensive operations.
• Experience with workforce planning, fleet utilization, or capacity optimization.
• Proficiency with data visualization and analytics tools such as Tableau, Looker, SQL, or similar.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with core hours, office collaboration, and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs.
• Meaningful equity and market-benchmarked salaries.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Learning and development budgets for training, conferences, and growth.
• Health, dental, retirement or pension, enhanced parental leave, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials.
• High-ownership environment where operating practices are still being developed.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen: 30 minutes.
• Competency interviews with the hiring manager and stakeholders: 2 hours total.
• Analytical, operational, and financial deep-dive interviews with scenario planning: 3 hours total, followed by a 1-hour mission and values interview.