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.
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About the Role:
The Telematics organization powers the data backbone behind Motive’s products and is scaling to handle billions of events per day as we expand globally. As the first Technical Program Manager (TPM) dedicated to Telematics, you will shape our execution rhythms, drive cross-functional delivery, and help the team evolve as we grow rapidly. You will partner with engineering and product to orchestrate planning, execution, and delivery across backend services and device software.
What You’ll Do:
- Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders (product, engineering, sales etc) to enable fast decisions and alignment across programs and releases.
- Lead bi-annual planning and roadmap management with Product; turn objectives into scoped, resourced, and sequenced plans with clear dependencies and risks.
- Drive day-to-day execution across backend and device software teams; stand up milestone tracking, surface blockers early, and maintain a crisp operating cadence.
- Establish program status reporting and communications (weekly/exec updates) that are data-driven and outcome-focused.
- Proactively manage risk; identify critical path/mitigation plans and unblock teams using the right mix of process, escalation, and hands-on facilitation.
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve efficiency through process refinements and/or better tooling.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of program management experience in software-centric companies.
- Proven experience coordinating programs that span backend services and device software (mobile apps or embedded firmware).
- Strong command of agile delivery; able to run and evolve sprint/quarterly rhythms and enforce high-quality execution standards.
- Hands-on with program tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence) and creating accurate source-of-truth plans/dashboards.
- Ability to lead and coach without direct authority; excellent written and verbal communication for technical and exec audiences.
- Comfortable operating in fast-changing environments; skilled at turning data into insights and action plans.
- Technical background or technical degree required.
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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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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