Fleet Forward Program Manager 

About PeopleForBikes

PeopleForBikes (PFB) unites millions of Americans, thousands of businesses, and hundreds of communities to make every bike ride safer, more accessible, and more fun. Our mission is to get more people on bikes more often and make every bike ride better for everyone.

PeopleForBikes represents more than 325 supplier members and 1.4 million individual supporters. The U.S. bicycle industry contributes $88 billion annually to the U.S. economy and supports more than 780,000 jobs.

PeopleForBikes is composed of a Coalition that is the U.S. bicycle industry’s trade association and a Foundation that supports and promotes bicycling’s benefits and backs crucial bike infrastructure projects and programs.

Position Summary

PeopleForBikes seeks a highly organized, collaborative, and entrepreneurial Program Manager to oversee the operation, measurement, and execution of Fleet Forward, PeopleForBikes’ national initiative to accelerate the safe and responsible growth of commercial electric micromobility delivery.

Fleet Forward brings together industry leaders, policymakers, transportation officials, advocates, and communities to address the policy, infrastructure, safety, and public-acceptance barriers preventing these vehicles from reaching their full potential. The initiative will develop and advocate for model legislation, support deployment in priority cities and states, build local coalitions, advance infrastructure solutions, and educate policymakers and the public about the benefits of commercial electric micromobility.

The Program Manager will serve as the central program manager for Fleet Forward, ensuring PeopleForBikes and participating partners translate this national strategy into measurable results.

The initial term is one year, with a possible one-year extension, subject to funding and project needs. While this position is currently envisioned as full-time, PeopleForBikes may consider a part-time arrangement for a highly qualified candidate in a complementary role. Compensation, scope, and benefits eligibility would be adjusted accordingly based on hours worked and employment classification.

About the Role

The Program Manager will oversee the day-to-day execution of Fleet Forward's multi-year work plan and coordinate work across PeopleForBikes' policy, government relations, infrastructure, research, communications, and community engagement teams.

This position combines project management, policy coordination, stakeholder engagement, coalition building, research, communications, data management, budgeting, and partner relations. The ideal candidate is an exceptional project manager and relationship-builder who can bring structure to a complex national initiative involving companies, policymakers, transportation agencies, community organizations, consultants, and PeopleForBikes staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day implementation of Fleet Forward, managing the multi-year work plan and ensuring program goals, milestones, and deliverables stay on track.
• Coordinate work across PeopleForBikes teams, participating companies, consultants, lobbyists, and external partners to maintain alignment and accountability.
• Manage project plans, timelines, budgets, contracts, dashboards, and reporting, including monthly progress updates for participating Fleet Forward stakeholders.
• Lead Fleet Forward's monthly industry working group and other policy, strategy, and implementation meetings, including agendas, materials, action items, and follow-up.
• Manage the development and deployment of model city and state policies that enable safe commercial electric micromobility operations.
• Track and analyze legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments affecting commercial micromobility at the city, state, and federal levels.
• Coordinate government relations and advocacy campaigns in priority markets, working with PeopleForBikes staff, external lobbyists, industry partners, and policymakers.
• Build and maintain relationships with policymakers, transportation agencies, participating companies, businesses, advocates, and community organizations.
• Create and distribute a policy toolkit that contains infrastructure guidance for cities, including bicycle networks, curb management, loading zones, parking, charging infrastructure, and microhubs.
• Use PeopleForBikes' City Ratings and infrastructure expertise to identify priority markets and infrastructure investments that can improve the safety and efficiency of commercial micromobility.
• Lead public education, communications, and community engagement efforts, including educational resources, media campaigns, demonstration projects, and pop-up events.
• Serve as the central point of coordination for Fleet Forward partners, providing timely intelligence, identifying opportunities for direct engagement, and maintaining a unified industry voice on commercial micromobility policy and deployment.

Required Qualifications

Don't meet every requirement? No problem. We encourage candidates with relevant experience and a strong interest in the work to apply.

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience in project or program management, transportation, public policy, government relations, nonprofit programs, consulting, logistics, mobility, or related fields.
• Exceptional project management and organizational skills, including demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, partners, and deliverables simultaneously.Experience coordinating complex initiatives involving multiple organizations and senior-level stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing presentations, briefing materials, reports, and executive communications.
• Strong meeting facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into clear work plans, timelines, responsibilities, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to track program performance and communicate progress clearly to partners and organizational leadership.
• Self-directed and collaborative, with strong judgment, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where technology, policy, and business models are evolving.
• Ability to handle confidential and commercially sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.Interest in transportation, logistics, cities, bicycling, micromobility, or related fields.
• Willingness and ability to travel for partner meetings, city visits, demonstration projects, conferences, study tours, and PeopleForBikes staff gatherings.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent professional experience or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience may also be considered.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-company, multi-stakeholder, or public-private initiatives.
• Familiarity with urban transportation, freight, logistics, micromobility, or bicycle policy.
• Experience working with city or state transportation agencies.
• Experience supporting legislative, regulatory, or government-relations initiatives.
• Experience working with corporate partners or membership organizations.
• Experience developing model policies, best-practice guidance, toolkits, or similar resources.

Compensation and Benefits

This “at-will” position offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience. This is a full-time temporary position with an annual salary range of $70,000–$85,000, depending on experience and qualifications, plus benefits.

PeopleForBikes offers an excellent and comprehensive benefits package, including paid health insurance for employees, a generous paid-time-off (PTO) policy including 22 days plus federal holidays, paid parental leave, a flexible work schedule including work-from-home options, and optional participation in a deferred compensation retirement plan with immediate vesting of a competitive employer match. In addition, we provide long-term disability insurance, a cell phone plan, and a laptop computer, along with many other benefits like industry discounts. As icing on the cake, PeopleForBikes also pays you to ride your bike.

You don’t have to be an amazing bike rider to work here — what matters to us is a desire to work alongside passionate people improving the world through bikes (and hopefully you love bikes too).

Location

PeopleForBikes is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office in Bentonville, Arkansas. This position may be based in Boulder, Bentonville, or remote.

To Apply

• Interested candidates should apply here. A PeopleForBikes team member will contact you if your application is selected to move on to the next round.
• Due to volume, we will not respond to inquiries outside of the formal application process.
• Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
• The position is available immediately and will remain open until filled.
• Interested applicants are encouraged to visit peopleforbikes.org and foundation.peopleforbikes.org for general information and organizational background.

Equal Opportunity

Our work to create safer, more comfortable, and more accessible places for everyone to bike starts with us. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to hiring a diverse workforce. You can find more on our hiring page here. We want our staff to be reflective of the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and to create an inclusive work environment where employees and the communities we serve feel welcomed, valued, respected, and received. We believe that no matter who you are, where you're from, or why you ride, everyone can find joy on a bicycle.