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Uber Freight

Logistics platform connecting carriers with shippers

Principal Sales Account Executive

Account ExecutiveConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMexico City, CDMX, MexicoNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of progressive experience in the 3PL, freight forwarding, truck transportation, customs, or broader supply chain ecosystem, including substantial enterprise business development and strategic account ownership in Mexico.
  • A sustained record of achieving sales goals, winning new enterprise customers, and expanding accounts profitably, with ability to explain personal contribution, deal complexity, revenue and margin outcomes, and how awarded business became an operating business.
  • Proven ability to lead long, complex sales cycles involving multiple decision makers, formal sourcing processes, legal and commercial negotiation, and cross-functional solution development, with strong consultative selling and value-based negotiation skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to earn trust with VP and C-suite leaders, facilitate strategic conversations, and connect logistics decisions to financial and business priorities.
  • Experience navigating multinational organizations and developing relationships beyond a single contact.
  • Strong understanding of Mexico–U.S. supply chains, cross-border transportation, and customs dependencies, and proven effectiveness with U.S. commercial teams and customers in a multicultural, matrix organization.
  • Fluent business English and Spanish, written and spoken, with ability to lead executive discovery, present a business case, negotiate, and deliver concise commercial updates in both languages.
  • Advanced Salesforce proficiency and disciplined account plans, stakeholder maps, qualification, stages, close dates, next steps, and risks; use of tools such as Gong and LinkedIn Sales Navigator; experience selling or supporting technology solutions and managing technology accounts, with understanding of software evaluation, subscription models, integrations, adoption, renewals, and expansion alongside transportation sales.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, International Trade, Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Availability for customer visits and travel within Mexico and the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Build strategic account plans by prioritizing enterprise prospects and assigned accounts using market intelligence, customer strategy, and supply chain needs; map locations, divisions, buying centers, competitors, and share of wallet; and define growth opportunities, executive engagement, and clear actions with owners and dates.
  • Lead consultative discovery by understanding customer operating models, cost drivers, service risks, and growth priorities; quantify the impact of current challenges and build business cases around total cost, reliability, visibility, resilience, and accountability.
  • Develop active relationships across Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Finance, IT, Operations, and executive leadership; develop champions, reach economic buyers, and maintain multi-threaded engagement across Mexico, the U.S., and global stakeholders.
  • Own complex enterprise deals by leading qualification, RFIs and RFQs, solution workshops, proposals, negotiations, and closure; apply MEDDPIC to validate customer value, decision criteria, buying process, champions, competition, and procurement requirements; and maintain customer-aligned close plans.
  • Sell integrated logistics and technology solutions, combining domestic and cross-border trucking, customs, freight forwarding, warehousing, cross-dock, pooling, and intermodal with TMS SaaS, LCC control towers, and MTS managed transportation solutions; work with specialists to define the right mix of software, services, and capacity for each customer.
  • Lead logistics technology sales by developing software and technology-enabled opportunities through process discovery, demonstrations, technical evaluation, and business cases; engage IT, security, and business stakeholders; and align integration, implementation, subscription economics, and adoption with Product and Solutions teams.
  • Partner with U.S. sellers on shared account plans, proposals, and expansion across plants, divisions, and services.
  • Ensure solutions can be delivered by engaging Procurement, Operations, Customs, Solutions, Finance, Legal, and Technology early; validate carrier appetite, capacity, rate validity, economics, and launch requirements before commitments; surface late-stage opportunities in joint reviews; and resolve blockers with clear ownership.
  • Carry customer commitments through launch by agreeing handoffs, onboarding milestones, and first-load readiness with implementation and operations owners; remain commercially accountable through ramp-up, communicate realistic commitments, address gaps quickly, and lead QBRs and expansion plans after launch.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience selling TMS SaaS, control tower, or managed transportation solutions; leading demonstrations and technical discovery with specialists; and managing technology adoption, renewals, and expansion.
  • Experience developing automotive, consumer goods, retail, or industrial accounts and nearshoring opportunities.
  • Familiarity with analytics, EDI, and API integrations, MEDDPIC or a comparable qualification framework, and mentoring sellers.

About the Company

Uber Freight

Logistics platform connecting carriers with shippers

Uber Freight operates a digital logistics marketplace that connects shippers needing to move goods with carriers with available truck capacity. It streamlines the process of booking, managing, and paying for freight shipments through a single platform, serving a range of customers from small businesses to large enterprises. The platform matches shipments with carriers, offers dynamic pricing, and provides visibility, routing, and payment features to simplify transportation management. Unlike traditional brokers, Uber Freight leverages a large, integrated network and real-time data to enable fast, transparent transactions with scalable capacity. The company's goal is to make freight shipping faster, more transparent, and cost-efficient by bringing demand and carrier capacity together in one digital marketplace.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Series A
Total funding
$500M
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founded
2017

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