VeriShip Announces Hiring Surge, New Platform Launch

VeriShip is planning to hire about 30 employees as it prepares to launch its new platform in June.

The Overland Park company tracks customers’ shipments to verify they were delivered by the promised time. If a package is late, VeriShip helps its customers seek refunds from carriers like FedEx or UPS—typically worth about 3 to 5 percent of the shipping fee. (VeriShip takes a percentage of the refund.)

The company said it saved clients more than $51 million last year.

The new platform will continue to offer the delivery-audit service, along with several new business intelligence tools that will help clients make better decisions about shipping.

“The intelligence, delivered via our cloud-based Parcel Intelligence Platform, allows clients to make decisions to reduce shipping costs and gain efficiencies with objective data,” said Ross Reed, vice president of sales. “We eliminate having to use subjective methods in making operational decisions. Now VeriShip clients do that with objective data.”

The new positions, many of which will be filled this spring, will be in software development, sales and data science. All of the new jobs will be based here in Kansas City.

In addition to the new hires, VeriShip has added 5,400 square feet to its headquarters.

“VeriShip’s rapid growth has exceeded our expectations for success,” said Russ Lindmark, VeriShip’s founder and CEO. “Expanded office space will allow us to increase our capabilities in key areas that align with our future growth plans while providing our employees with an open floor plan and dedicated spaces for collaboration.”