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# Senior Product Manager at Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)

- **Company:** Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)
- **Location:** San Francisco California, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baton/jobs/5210863007

## Job description

## Who We Are

[Baton](https://www.baton.io/) is [Ryder](https://www.ryder.com/en-us/about-us)’s in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics. With $10B in freight under management, our technology reaches every part of the U.S. economy.

We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers—including some of the world’s most well-known brands—to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Our work includes everything from customer-facing software to the data platform that will power the next era of innovation at Ryder.

Baton’s mission: enable supply chain on autopilot.

Ryder acquired Baton in 2022 to power its next wave of digital products. We operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach. If you have a passion for solving complex problems and creating impact for the engine of the American economy, you’ll love it here.

## Role Senior Product Manager

Location Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

## Basic Job Details

Job Type: Full Time Work Model: Hybrid Remote Days: Monday & Friday Office Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Job Description

We’re looking for a visionary Senior Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you'll help expand our customer visibility platform into a new $1 billion vertical — owning the 0-1 product definition from early research through launch. As an early product manager at Baton, you’ll have an opportunity to make a huge impact through owning numerous mission-critical product initiatives. You’ll collaborate with engineers, designers, operators, customers, and leadership in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment. We’re looking for people who are scrappy, determined, and driven to make complex and inefficient systems work better.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the full product development life cycle, from need-finding to product vision and execution
- Own the 0-1 definition and launch of a new product line, expanding our customer visibility platform into a new $1 billion vertical
- Partner closely with internal Ryder operations and IT stakeholders to align the product vision with a major platform transformation already underway
- Work with design to drive prototyping and early ideation of new product features and capabilities across various logistics workflows
- Navigate relationships to execute cross-department projects touching every inch of the organization
- Always keep a mind towards future products and initiatives to help shape our tech vision for 1, 5, and 10 years down the line

## Minimum Qualifications

- Experience building 0-1 products and delivering exceptional user experiences
- Experience shipping web applications or user-facing applications
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization
- Ability to execute with minimal guidance
- Strong data-driven analytical skills to back up assumptions and recommendations
- Comfort working alongside complex enterprise systems and integrations

## Preferred Qualifications

- 6+ years experience
- 4+ years experience in product management
- Comfortable in ambiguous situations and dynamic environments and understand what fast-growing startups entail for PMs
- Experience in a B2B SaaS environment, ideally within freight, logistics, manufacturing, or another operationally complex industry

The Perks

- Competitive Base Salary + Cash Bonus Structure
- Annual Company Bonus + Long-Term Incentive Plan
- 401k with Matching
- Hybrid Work Schedule
- Hyper-Stable, publicly traded Enterprise
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Health Coverage
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount to market value)
- Collaborative, Fun, and Tech-Forward office in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

Compensation Range: The annual base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $240,000*. Compensation will vary based on factors including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. In addition to base salary, Baton's full-time employees are eligible for an annual performance bonus.

## Why You Should Join

- Have an immediate impact:
- With Ryder’s existing customer base of 50,000+ companies and an internal headcount of 43,000, the scale and impact of our products will be large and far-reaching, from day one.
- Opportunity to grow and lead in a Fortune 500 company:
- You’ll get to work in a rapidly growing, startup-like environment while having the stability and backing of Ryder and its full executive team.
- Creative, fast-paced environment to solve impactful problems in Supply Chain:
- We’re going to design completely new tools for an industry that hasn’t been rethought in decades. And to do this, we need people who think differently.

## About Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Baton is Ryder’s Silicon Valley-based technology lab that builds AI-powered software to digitize, optimize, and automate supply chain networks for some of the world’s largest brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Ryder System, Inc. / NYSE: R in 2022; operates as a wholly owned innovation lab)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019 (as a startup); acquired 2022
- **Founders**: Andrew Berberick and Nate Robert

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Transportation & Logistics Technology, Supply Chain Management
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Ryder’s 50,000+ customers, including Fortune 500 consumer goods, retail, and manufacturing brands)
- **Mission/purpose statement**: "Enable supply chain on autopilot."

## Products & Services
- **[RyderShare™](https://baton.io/)**: A real-time collaborative logistics platform that tracks shipments, manages exceptions, and connects supply chain stakeholders through a single-pane view. Includes proactive notifications and full audit trails.
- **AI-Powered Optimization Engine**: A first-of-its-kind platform designed to combat waste in transportation networks by improving routing, scheduling, and dock detention, specifically built to handle seasonality and fluctuating demand.
- **Data Platform & Infrastructure**: The underlying data systems that power the next generation of innovation at Ryder, enabling intelligent planning and execution across the entire fleet.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available for the lab itself. Parent company Ryder System, Inc. reported over $12 billion in annual revenue and has invested $1.3 billion in technology over five years.
- **Key Metric**: Ryder manages **$10B in freight under management**, operates a fleet of **260K+ vehicles**, and Baton’s platform processes **10M shipment loads daily**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Originally backed by 8VC and Maersk Growth (Series A). Now operates fully under Ryder System, Inc.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring (8 open roles in Q3 2024), headcount growing 22% YoY, 120+ RyderShare customers, and a clear mandate from Ryder leadership to prepare the company for the coming AI wave.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Startup speed with Fortune 500 strength**: Teams fully own their roadmap and ship at startup velocity, but with the resources, data, and stability of a $12B industry giant.
- **Unmatched data moat**: Access to the largest full-service commercial truck fleet in the U.S. and a decade of supply chain data provides a training ground for AI models that no pure-play startup can match.
- **Elite engineering talent**: The team includes engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (led the Mars Rover program), Apple, Meta, OpenAI, Tesla, and Google.
- **FreightTech credibility**: Previously ranked #4 in FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 (ahead of Uber Freight and Tesla).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first platform**: Baton’s primary mandate is to build and deploy a new generation of AI-powered digital platforms and optimization engines for Ryder’s customers.
- **Network digitization**: Continue expanding RyderShare’s capabilities to connect more shippers, carriers, and warehouses, eliminating waste and reducing detention.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively recruiting the brightest software engineers, product managers, and data scientists from top-tier tech companies to solve the hardest problems in logistics.

## Why Work Here
- **Best of both worlds**: "Operate at startup speed, with Fortune 500 reach" — rare autonomy and impact without the risk of a pre-revenue startup.
- **Hard problems, massive scale**: Work on challenges that directly affect the engine of the American economy, with a dataset covering millions of daily shipments.
- **High-caliber peers**: Work alongside former NASA engineers, ex-OpenAI researchers, and alumni from Apple, Meta, Google, and Tesla.
- **Culture of curiosity**: The team describes itself as people with a "shared curiosity for how things move through the world."
- **Hybrid/In-office**: Based in San Francisco (Silicon Valley) with a strong in-person collaboration ethos.
- **Career growth**: Direct ownership of product roadmaps and the chance to shape a brand-new lab that is central to Ryder’s digital transformation strategy.

## Sources
1. [baton.io](https://baton.io/)
2. [Greenhouse Careers Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/baton)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/baton-trucking)
4. [Ryder Newsroom - Lab Announcement (BusinessWire)](https://newsroom.ryder.com/news/news-details/2023/Ryder-Establishes-Silicon-Valley-Based-Technology-Lab-Led-by-Founders-of-Start-Up-Baton/default.aspx)
5. [Ryder Investor Relations - Same Announcement](https://investors.ryder.com/news-events/News-Releases/news-details/2023/Ryder-Establishes-Silicon-Valley-Based-Technology-Lab-Led-by-Founders-of-Start-Up-Baton/default.aspx)

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