The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  InnovateLab is hiring a Transportation Manager in Montgomery, AL.

• Role description

  Our general team at InnovateLab has a Transportation Manager gap, and the right empowering hire turns that gap into our next advantage. Boiled down: freelance, $78,000 - $118,000, 7 years of Active Listening, and a seat at the table where InnovateLab decisions get made.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Question the brief when the brief doesn't match reality
  • Read the room and adjust how you pitch Accountability to each audience
  • Handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment
  • Bring 6 of general instinct to problems the playbook misses
  • Defend the Flexibility fundamentals when speed tempts everyone to skip them
  • Build the Public Speaking habits a manager role can lean on for years
  • Coach newer manager teammates through their first messy general project
  • Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable AL regulations

  What You'll Bring

  • Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener
  • Real proficiency with Active Listening, plus willingness to learn Decision Making fast
  • Willingness to commute to Montgomery, AL or work flexibly as needed
  • Familiarity with the Montgomery market and local general landscape
  • A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English

  InnovateLab builds general tools the way old shops built furniture — slowly, in Montgomery, AL, and with a collaborative respect for the craft. We'd rather coach a service-minded learner than babysit a brilliant jerk, every single time.

  We set the base at $78,000 - $118,000 and build outward with growth coaching, a mentor, benefits, and hours you genuinely control.

  The team just got the green light to hire, and this Transportation Manager role is first up.

  Think you have what it takes? apply now and start the conversation.

• Required skills

  • Negotiation
  • Change Management
  • Time Management
  • Relationship Building
  • Flexibility
  • Critical Thinking
  • Public Speaking
  • Active Listening
  • Facilitation
  • Persuasion
  • Decision Making
  • Presentation Skills
  • Accountability

• Benefits & perks

  • Employee of the Month
  • Paid sick leave
  • Open source contribution time
  • Paid Time Off
  • Parking Allowance
  • Catered lunches
  • Military leave

• Apply before 2026-09-08

  Submit your application for this Freelance general position.