Strategic Partnerships · Mobility · AI Operations

Building partnerships that move mobility forward.

Strategic partnerships and operations leader with 9+ years of experience turning complex mobility programs, partner networks, and AI-enabled workflows into scalable real-world execution.

Professional headshot of Erik Sortino
Los Angeles, CAMobility · Partnerships · Product Ops
300+external partners managed
850K+annual service events supported
9+ yrsmobility & technology operations
$400Kannual savings contributed to

Four ways I create value.

Each capability reflects a different part of my operating experience — commercial relationships, field execution, product and AI systems, and measurable performance.

Strategic Partnerships & Account Growth

Commercial relationships grounded in the operational realities that determine whether a partnership can scale.

Managed a portfolio of approximately 300 external business and service-provider relationships.
Worked with contracts, rate negotiations, renewals, retention, partner economics, RFP support, and program requirements.
Handled churn and partners considering leaving the platform, resolving pricing, payment, service, and product issues.
Supported enterprise reviews, expansion opportunities, executive escalations, and cross-functional program execution.
Partnership operating model
Commercial Need
→
Partner Model
→
Scale
Retention
Core
Expansion
Growth
Operational fit
Scale

Mobility & Operations

Large-scale roadside, fleet, service-provider, and autonomous-vehicle support operations where uptime and response matter.

Fleet support, roadside assistance, service recovery, provider dispatch, and escalation management.
Supported autonomous-vehicle programs, including Waymo vehicle recovery and the specialized door-closing response program.
Expanded and optimized provider coverage across multiple markets using performance, capability, geography, and demand data.
Worked with SLA performance, restricted-roadway/DOT considerations, launch readiness, and real-time field execution.
Mobility in motion.
Operational readiness, dispatch, recovery, and partner execution at field level.

AI, Product & Technology

Hands-on experience improving the systems that connect customer requests, automated dispatch, frontline providers, and product feedback.

Worked with proprietary AI dispatch workflows, automation logic, prompt development, and QC troubleshooting.
Helped refine automated voice-agent flows and service-provider interactions, contributing to higher automated-dispatch performance.
Tagged recurring failures by rate, distance, vehicle type, geography, ETA, capability, and availability for Product and Engineering.
Used Heap, Looker, SQL, Salesforce, Zendesk, Asana, Jira, Slack, and Google Workspace across operations and product workflows.
AI-enabled service workflow
Customer / Fleet
→
AI Dispatch
→
Provider Match
Service Event
→
Outcome Data
→
Product Feedback

Analytics & Performance

Operational analytics used to find failure patterns, improve performance, and turn data into action.

Built and used Looker reporting and basic SQL analysis for response time, coverage, partner performance, utilization, and service trends.
Connected operational failures to cost, customer experience, retention risk, and partner performance.
Worked with forecasting, schedule adherence, occupancy/utilization, shrinkage, overtime, AHT, FRT, and staffing efficiency.
Supported rate audits, invoice validation, cost variance analysis, fraud/risk investigation, and payment approvals.
Example operating query
SELECT
  market,
  AVG(response_minutes) AS avg_response,
  COUNT(*) AS events
FROM service_events
WHERE status = 'completed'
GROUP BY market
ORDER BY avg_response;
Response time
↓
Coverage
↑
Partner health
↑

Selected programs.

These programs show how I work: ambiguous problems, external partners, operational constraints, product feedback, and measurable execution.

Autonomous Vehicles

Waymo Vehicle Support

Supported HONK’s Waymo partnership across vehicle recovery and a specialized door-closing program that dispatched providers to secure doors left open by riders so vehicles could return to service.

Enterprise Mobility

Farmers Program Expansion

Supported a pilot that expanded into a major enterprise program, helping operationalize service workflows, performance management, recovery plans, and executive reporting.

AI & Automation

Dispatch Automation

Worked on AI-enabled dispatch flows, conversational prompts, failure tagging, QC troubleshooting, and frontline feedback used to improve automation quality and operational execution.

Performance that can be measured.

I’m most effective where operational outcomes are visible and improvement can be tied to response time, partner performance, customer experience, capacity, or cost.

850K+annual service events supported
300external partners managed
80+NPS performance supported
$400Kannual savings contributed to
HONK platform benchmarks: NPS 83+ · CSAT 4.7/5 · 50% faster service.
Company-level metrics publicly promoted by HONK; shown here as context for the operating environment, not as individual performance claims.

Career progression.

Frontline operations → analytics and product insight → strategic partnerships, account growth, and scaled mobility operations.

HONK Technologies
2021–2026

Strategic Partnerships & Operations Manager

Managed external partnerships and enterprise mobility programs across contracts, rates, renewals, churn/retention, RFPs, partner economics, service performance, product feedback, and operational scaling.

PartnershipsFleet OperationsAV SupportCommercial Ops
HONK Technologies
2018–2020

Account Analyst

Analyzed customer, partner, and operational performance using Looker, SQL, product analytics, and field feedback to identify service gaps, support pilots, and improve workflows.

LookerSQLProduct AnalyticsVoice of Customer
HONK Technologies
2016–2017

Operations Supervisor

Led frontline operations in a high-volume, time-sensitive environment, managing escalations, coaching teams, reinforcing quality standards, and maintaining service continuity.

LeadershipEscalationsTrainingService Quality

Education & credentials.

Formal business education supported by practical credentials in continuous improvement, project management, digital transformation, and AI.

Graduate Education

Master of Business Administration

California State University, Los Angeles

Undergraduate Education

B.S. Business Administration

California State University, Los Angeles

Selected Credentials

Operations + AI

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · Project Management · Prompt Engineering · Digital Transformation · AI for Everyone

Open to the right opportunity

Let’s build what moves next.

Interested in strategic partnerships, mobility operations, commercialization, customer success, AI-enabled operations, and product-facing roles where execution matters.