Who we are:
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
Who We Are:
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery. Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.
About the Role:
Motive addresses significant challenges faced by trillion-dollar industries powering the physical economy. As the Director of Product, Workforce Management, you will lead the management and execution of our Workforce Management suite of products. Managing a team of Product Managers, you will be instrumental in delivering exceptional end-user experiences and highly customizable, performant products catering to various customer sizes, verticals, and markets. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will understand customer needs, identify market opportunities, and develop strategies to drive growth and adoption of our products and services.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and manage products, ensuring exceptional end-user experiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand customer needs, identify market opportunities, and develop growth strategies.
- Build and shape a high performing product team
- Conduct market and customer research to identify opportunities and challenges in diverse verticals
- Define clear product requirements based on a deep understanding of customer needs
- Work with GTM teams to develop sales strategies and marketing campaigns
- Analyze performance metrics to measure the success of product launches.
What We’re Looking For:
- 10+ years of product management experience with expertise in managing enterprise SaaS products at scale.
- Exceptional product thinking, with demonstrated ability in building customer centric product strategy for a business and delivering on them
- Player and coach, who can drive individual projects while also building and shaping a high performing product team
- High "EQ" with the ability to handle multiple priorities and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Adept at working with customers and GTM teams, in addition to EPD teams
- Strong bias to action and fearlessness in getting hands dirty.
- Comfort and confidence in verbal and written communication.
- Interest and willingness to meet customers, travel expected 25% of the time
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. Motive uses three geographic zones to determine pay range. For this role, the compensation ranges are:
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of product management experience managing enterprise SaaS products at scale
- Experience leading and building high-performing product teams (managing Product Managers)
- Proven ability to develop and execute customer-centric product strategy and deliver results
- Experience collaborating with GTM, customers, and EPD (engineering/product/design) teams
- High emotional intelligence and ability to handle multiple priorities and tight deadlines
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Bias to action and willingness to get hands dirty
- Willingness to meet customers; travel approximately 25% of the time
- Authorization to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations
What the Team is Saying
Motive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance alongside free mental‑health support and EAP resources. This breadth signals a comprehensive health and wellbeing foundation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes generous vacation or unlimited PTO, sick leave, local holidays, and enhanced parental leave. This mix supports both routine rest and family needs.
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Flexible Benefits — Work is described as remote‑first with options for fully remote, hybrid, or in‑office, plus a work‑from‑home stipend. Flexibility around where work happens is explicitly built into the package.
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What We Do
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
Why Work With Us
We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.
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