Head of IT and Production Support at Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab) | San Francisco, CA, United States | Rezi

Head of IT and Production Support at Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab)

Head of IT and Production Support

Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab) · San Francisco, CA, United States

1 months ago

Head of IT and Production Support

Baton (A Ryder Technology Lab) · San Francisco, CA, United States

2 months ago
Resume preview

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

Baton is Ryder’s in-house product development group focused on harnessing emerging technologies to redefine transportation and logistics. We design and ship category-defining software that enables Ryder and its 50,000+ customers to plan and execute freight intelligently, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Baton’s mission is to enable supply chain on autopilot. We operate at startup speed with Fortune 500 reach.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing Production Support Engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, empathy, and continuous improvements.
  • Build and execute hiring, onboarding, and career development plans, establishing clear pathways for growth.
  • Create structured onboarding programs to accelerate context-building on Baton's products, tech stack, and business logic.
  • Foster deep integration between PSE and core engineering teams, breaking down silos and enabling knowledge sharing.
  • Design and implement comprehensive runbooks, processes, and operational documentation.
  • Establish and manage SLAs and key metrics (uptime, response time, resolution time, CSAT), driving continuous improvement through data.
  • Own customer and operator communication during incidents, ensuring clear, timely, and empathetic updates during outages and degradations.
  • Leverage customer insights, telemetry, and support trends to proactively detect issues, automate solutions, and advance support tooling.
  • Partner with Engineering to validate new features, run bug bashes, create E2E/integration tests in response to incidents, and support pre-onboarding QA for customer migrations.
  • Define the team’s charter, transforming Production Support towards a hybrid Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Technical Solutions Engineering model.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to influence platform reliability, observability tooling, and self-service capabilities—ensuring Baton's infrastructure can scale to support Ryder's 50K+ customers.
  • Define and execute a roadmap toward 24x7 coverage, reducing external help desk dependencies as the business scales.
  • Establish processes for the PSE team to take on customer-specific technical solutions, configuration changes, and lightweight operational fixes—protecting engineering bandwidth for strategic roadmap work.
  • Champion exceptional customer experiences: Use incident trends and customer feedback to drive platform improvements that prevent future issues and increase customer satisfaction.
  • Manage and administer Baton's core IT systems including Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, related productivity tools, MDM, office A/V, and our office internet/WiFi.
  • Develop and implement strategies for bridging Baton and Ryder systems where appropriate, including SSO, identity management, and cross-platform workflows.
  • Act as primary technical liaison with Ryder's enterprise IT team, navigating policies, security requirements, and integration opportunities.
  • Build relationships with Ryder IT leadership to advocate for Baton's needs while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
  • Evaluate opportunities to migrate Baton systems to Ryder's enterprise platforms where it makes business and technical sense.
  • Create and maintain policies, procedures, and documentation for Baton's IT environment that are aligned with Ryder’s security and compliance policies.
  • Provide hands-on IT support to Baton employees.
  • Identify opportunities for automation and integration, partnering with engineering teams as needed to execute on these opportunities.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in IT, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience managing and scaling production support teams in high-growth B2B SaaS environments where reliability, compliance, and customer SLAs are non-negotiable
  • Hands-on experience administering enterprise IT systems (Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, MDM, SSO/identity, office A/V/networking)
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, DataDog, etc.)
  • Strong program management skills to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive projects to completion
  • Strong change-management skills, with a track record of rolling out new systems with minimal disruption and high employee adoption
  • Experience navigating enterprise procurement, security, compliance, and change-control processes
  • Comfort navigating large, matrixed organizations (experience working across multiple teams, getting alignment, and influencing without authority)
  • Deep empathy for employees and customers, with commitment to delivering exceptional support experiences even under pressure
  • Experience with QA or test automation
  • Experience building or managing 24x7 support operations
  • Experience transitioning support teams toward SRE or Technical Solutions Engineering models
  • Hands-on experience administering both Microsoft 365/Teams/Azure and Google Workspace/Slack/AWS environments and making them play well together
  • Experience with enterprise security and compliance policy definition and implementation
  • Experience in logistics, supply chain, or freight technology

Skills

  • Google Workspace
  • Slack
  • AWS
  • Microsoft 365
  • Teams
  • Azure
  • MDM
  • SSO/identity
  • office A/V/networking
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Sentry
  • DataDog
  • program management
  • change management
  • procurement
  • security
  • compliance
  • change-control
  • QA
  • test automation
  • SRE
  • Technical Solutions Engineering

Location

  • Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA

Work Type

  • Full Time
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • 8+ years of experience in IT, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience managing and scaling production support teams

Salary/Compensations

  • $180,000- $230,000

Benefits

  • 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

About the Company

  • Baton is Ryder’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.