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Brief
Head of Ops, Series A freight brokerage.
Two lines that drove the search · hover or tap
- Has run a carrier ops floor of 40+, not advised one.01
- Built the first playbook, not inherited it.02
Field
Digital freight brokers, post-Series B
41 companies · 260 people
“ran carrier ops floors”
← brief 01Asset-light 3PLs with in-house dispatch
28 companies · 152 people
“built the dispatch playbook”
← brief 02Excluded: brokers under 50 people
117 companies · not contacted
“too small to have a 40-person floor”
← brief 01
412 people69 companies1 group excluded
One candidate
Director, Carrier Ops
Why fit
- Ran a 60-person carrier floor, not a strategy team. ← brief 01
- Stood up two new lanes from zero and wrote the dispatch playbook. ← brief 02
Gap
Hasn’t done it at Series A yet. Every stage above, none below.
Note · Carson JacksonDraft 1
Saw you took the Dallas lane from zero to a 60-person floor — that is the job here, a stage earlier. A playbook you wrote, not one you were handed. Worth twenty minutes? — Carson