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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In the role of Senior Project Manager on the Partner Engineering team, you will serve as a strategic collaborator managing high impact projects with cross functional teams. responsible for process, organization and communication to improve engineering efficiency as we scale. You’ll drive quarterly and sprint planning, execution and delivery.
As a Senior Project manager, you will not only be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of technical projects, ensuring they meet business requirements, timelines and quality standards but will also collaborate and engage in day to day operations with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management and design to meet defined targets. You will also get a chance to coach EMs, PMs and Engineers to drive organization wide culture of continuous improvement.
What You'll Do:- Planning:
- Closely collaborate with the leadership team to define quarterly or bi annual planning, roadmap, objectives, scope and deliverables
- Work with engineering teams on creating detailed project plans, including tasks, timelines and resource allocation. Identify and manage project dependencies and risks
- Team Coordination:
- Coordinate and align design, product and engineering teams involved in projects to facilitate effective communication, collaboration and drive decisions
- Work with team members to move forward in case of any roadblocks or conflicts
- Project Execution:
- Make sure project execution is going according to the plan and track milestones
- Track and Report weekly project status updates to stakeholders
- Risk Management:
- Identifying risks and blockers then work to mitigate and unblock through all the tools in your toolkit
- Day to Day Operations:
- Lead, own and improve sprint rituals, such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives and demos
- Ensure correct reflection of teams’ assignments and their statuses on tools, boards and dashboards
- Continuous Improvement:
- Drive the culture of continuous improvement by identifying any opportunities to improve current processes that can contribute towards teams’ productivity and efficiency.
- Lead and organize quarter and project level retrospectives to extract key learnings
- 5+ years of experience in Program/Project Management (development PM focused)
- Prior technical experience or a technical degree is recommended
- Experience with project management software (such as JIRA, Confluence, Coda, etc.)
- You pride yourself on your organization and communication
- Ability to lead and coach without authority
- Ability to gain meaningful insights from data and create an action plan
- Capacity to work in a fast paced, continuously changing environment - You’ll jump in wherever you can
- Strong experience with agile methodologies
- CSM or PMP certification is a bonus
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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in Program/Project Management (development PM focused)
- Prior technical experience or a technical degree
- Experience with project management software (such as JIRA, Confluence, Coda)
- Strong experience with agile methodologies
- Excellent organization and communication skills
- Ability to lead and coach without authority
- Ability to derive insights from data and create action plans
- Capacity to work in a fast-paced, continuously changing environment
- CSM or PMP certification
- Authorized 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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