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.
at Motive - Western Region
Who we are:
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Motive combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to connect and automate physical operations. Motive is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world, serving 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 built on four foundational attributes; Own It, Less but Better, Build Trust, and Unlock Potential. This has taken our company to great heights, including being recognized by Fortune for Best Workplaces, Forbes Best Startup Employers, and Comparably for our Best Global Culture, Sales Team, Leadership Team, Career Growth, and CEO for Diversity. We’re proud to receive an employee net promoter score of 63 (according to Comparably) which places Motive in the top 5% of companies with 4,000 employees or more.
Today, our team is made up of more than 5,000 employees, located across the world, providing support to a wide range of customers. While most of our employees are remote, many have the opportunity to work on-site at any of our 8 global office locations. Visit our careers website to learn more about opportunities at Motive.
About the Role:
As a Regional Vice President, Strategic Sales at Motive, you will be a key leader in our fastest growing segment at Motive. Our RVPs manage a team of Strategic Account Executives and guide them in both engaging and closing Motive’s largest prospects. You’ll lead initiatives across hiring, coaching, and enablement to support Motive’s growth & success. Your team will sell into the most impactful companies in North America that power the physical economy.
We are seizing the opportunity created by our strong product positioning in the market by heavily investing across all Go-To-Market (GTM) teams within our Enterprise segment. You will lead the charge, selling the value of our products and the business outcomes that can be achieved for our customers in partnership with Motive.
Our Strategic Sales team sells consistently into Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries, including trucking, oil & gas, construction, agriculture, manufacturing, consumer transit, or any other business that requires a fleet of vehicles. Because of the collaborative nature of our Go-to-Market team, a win-as-a-team mentality is a must. In this high-energy role, you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with high standards of quality.
What You'll Do:
- Lead a world-class team of seasoned Account Executives that you’ll partner with on prospecting strategy, account planning, pipeline reviews, achieving revenue targets
- Develop and execute on strategic account and territory plans for your team to meet or exceed ACV targets over monthly, quarterly, and annual periods
- Track progress and success of your Account Executives against various primary KPIs, coaching and enabling their success across short and long-term goals
- Cultivate a culture of high-performance and accountability through best-in-class hiring
- Partner with our Sales Enablement team ad-hoc and on more formal Account Executive training and coaching programs to ensure consistency and effectiveness across the organization
- Excellence in listening, sales process and passionate about the art of selling
- Collaborate with your Account Executives and directly engage high-priority client prospects to help sell the value of Motive
- Ensure use of CRM and other operational tools, processes, and best practices in pipeline planning, forecasting, and sales execution
What We're Looking For:
- 1-3 years experience directly managing SaaS sales teams at the Strategic level
- History of exceeding sales targets with Strategic-level clients
- Ability to lead and motivate others to action, including best-in-class customer skills communication, empathy, and integrity
- A people-based mindset, with a passion for coaching and developing sales talent at all levels and a history of developing great sales cultures
- Examples of bringing a great sense of rigor, executions and accountability to your team’s day-to-day processes
- Ability to collaborate with internal cross-functional partners across Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal and Sales Ops
- Experience with Salesforce or other CRM and sales technologies and best practices enabling your team to forecast, manage their pipeline and accelerate wins
- Lead with curiosity and example by attending sales calls to help team manage and close deals
- Highly preferred that you live in the Western Region of the United States - in the same region as the team. We will consider qualified candidates who live in the following time zones: Pacific, Mountain or Central.
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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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.
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
- 1-3 years of experience directly managing strategic-level SaaS sales teams
- History of exceeding sales targets with strategic-level clients
- Ability to lead and motivate others, with strong customer communication, empathy, and integrity
- Passion for coaching and developing sales talent, with experience building strong sales cultures
- Experience bringing rigor, execution, and accountability to team processes
- Ability to collaborate with Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal, and Sales Operations
- Experience with Salesforce or another CRM and sales technologies
- Ability to coach team members during sales calls and help manage and close deals
- Preferred residence in the Western United States, specifically the Pacific, Mountain, or Central time zones
- 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 — Medical, dental, and vision coverage plus free mental‑health support are prominently offered, including access to Lyra Health. The breadth of core health benefits is positioned as a cornerstone of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous vacation/PTO, local holidays, sick time, and enhanced parental leave are highlighted across company materials. The time‑off framework is presented as flexible and comprehensive.
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Retirement Support — A retirement plan with company match is promoted alongside life and disability insurance. Financial protections and long‑term savings features are emphasized as part of total rewards.
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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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