Company Vehicle Fleet Manager

About the role

At Slate, we’re building safe, reliable vehicles that people can afford, personalize and love—and doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them. Slate is looking for an experienced Fleet Manager to lead, schedule, and maintain the growing fleet of company-owned vehicles used for PR, marketing, and influencer programs. This leader is responsible for keeping every fleet vehicle scheduled, maintained, insured, and event-ready, and for working directly with fleet management service providers to place vehicles with media and influencers. The ideal candidate is an independent, hands-on operator who can manage vendors, budgets, and logistics at the same time without losing sight of the details.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the fleet of Slate's PR, marketing, and influencer vehicles, ensuring every vehicle is clean, functional, and presentation-ready for public-facing use.
• Track vehicle condition, mileage, and service history across the fleet.
• Coordinate repairs, detailing, and recall or software updates to minimize vehicle downtime.
• Work with fleet management services to schedule media and influencer vehicle loans, pickups, and drop-offs.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for fleet vendors coordinating vehicle placement with press and content creators.
• Track vehicle availability against the PR and marketing team's editorial and campaign calendars, resolving scheduling conflicts proactively.
• Own day-to-day scheduling and transportation logistics for events, photo/video shoots, and media drives.
• Coordinate pickup, delivery, and transport of vehicles across markets, working with transport vendors as needed.
• Maintain a real-time view of fleet location, availability, and utilization.
• Manage relationships with dealerships, service centers, and detailing vendors, negotiating rates and service agreements.
• Build and maintain a preventive maintenance schedule for the fleet.
• Evaluate and onboard new fleet management or logistics vendors as the program scales.
• Own the fleet budget, including in-fleeting, maintenance, insurance, logistics, and de-fleeting.
• Track and report spend against budget, identifying opportunities to reduce cost per vehicle.
• Partner with Finance on forecasting and budget planning as the fleet grows.