About DAT DAT Freight & Analytics is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of freight and logistics innovation for nearly five decades. Founded in 1978, DAT operates the largest freight marketplace in North America - processing 250 million+ load posts annually and maintaining one of the largest repositories of freight market transaction data in the world. On a defined path to $1 billion in revenue, DAT deploys a suite of software solutions, machine learning models, and intelligent automation tools that help brokers, carriers, and shippers price freight accurately, source capacity, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. With nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India, DAT combines the credibility of a multi-decade market leader with the drive of a company that is not done disrupting the industry it helped build. For more information, visit www.DAT.com Job Application Deadline:11/30/2026 The Opportunity DAT's Science organization is seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead our Marketplace & Decision Optimization team. This team designs, builds, and calibrates the decision systems that shape how carriers discover loads, how brokers and carriers negotiate, and how DAT's marketplace clears. You will lead a group of talented applied scientists working on recommendation systems for carrier engagement, auction design, and automated offer negotiation. You will also help shape a new remit for the team: business decision optimization. DAT already grounds its most consequential commercial decisions in data, from pricing and packaging to product investment and growth strategy across our subscription and marketplace businesses. We want to bring Science deeper into those decisions, enriching them with causal framing and rigorous experimentation, and strengthening our ability to learn from every decision we make.
This is a player-coach role where you will:
- Lead, hire, and grow a team of applied scientists, setting the technical bar and the roadmap
- Stay hands-on, owning models, experiments, and analyses on the team's highest-leverage problems
- Bring experimentation and causal inference to decisions across both our transactional marketplace and our subscription business (DAT load boards, iQ, and beyond)
- Raise the experimentation bar across DAT, so product and engineering teams design better rollouts, run better tests, and make better decisions with the data they collect
You will be joining at a pivotal point in DAT's transformation, bringing together Convoy Platform's industry-leading marketplace technology with DAT's scale and deep market presence. The decisions your team shapes will move billions of dollars of freight and define how DAT grows. You are someone who will
- Lead scientists, and still enjoy doing the science: You have managed scientists and you enjoy it: hiring, coaching, giving direct feedback, and growing people into their next role. You also stay close to the work. You frame problems precisely, specify what needs to be built clearly enough for AI tools to execute it reliably, review modeling choices in depth, and take on hard technical problems yourself when that is the fastest path to impact.
- Rethink how science gets done: AI is changing what a scientist's day looks like, and you have a point of view on it. You use AI tools to move faster from question to evidence, and you stay rigorous about where they fall short. You think critically about which skills matter more as execution gets cheaper: problem framing, judgment, experimental design, and knowing what not to build. You bring an entrepreneurial bias to the team, deliberately trying new ways of working and keeping what earns its place.
- Raise the experimentation bar: You have changed how an organization learns before. You set standards for experiment design, metrics, and readouts, and you evangelize them with product, engineering and design leaders. Across DAT, people see you as the expert they go to before they decide on a rollout plan, launch an A/B test, or interpret a result.
- Elevate product decisions: You are a thought partner to product leaders, not a service queue. You help them frame
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