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.
About the Role
You'll build out a best-in-class merchant partnership and shop network across fuel, maintenance, and strategic fleet spend, driving In-Network Transaction Share and Strategic Partner TPV. You'll own the strategy, roadmap, technical onboarding, and operations for our partners and be at the forefront of adopting new-age payment technology to grow spend on Motive Financial Products.
What You'll Do
- Own the vision and roadmap for a best-in-class merchant partnership and shop network across fuel, maintenance, and other strategic spend categories.
- Expand coverage across both newer open-loop fleet spec and direct settlement models.
- Unlock bulk fuel integrations to deepen in-network spend.
- Drive international partnerships and champion adoption of new-age payment tech with partners.
- Design and pursue first-of-a-kind partnerships with industry leaders, owning end-to-end relationships and executive-level contacts.
- Run partner business reviews and deliver high-impact, measurable results (In-Network Share, TPV).
- Define requirements, metrics, and product documentation; drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Design, and GTM.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years, with a track record owning large-scale partnership or platform initiatives.
- Experience developing and managing technical partner relationships; payments, fuel/merchant networks, or fintech is a strong plus.
- Proven success delivering commercially successful, integration-heavy products.
- Data-driven, with strong customer empathy and executive communication skills.
- Enough technical fluency to earn engineers' respect and navigate integrations.
- Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Pay Transparency
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. For this role, the compensation range is:
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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
- 8+ years of professional experience
- Track record owning large-scale partnership or platform initiatives
- Experience developing and managing technical partner relationships
- Proven success delivering commercially successful, integration-heavy products
- Data-driven approach
- Strong customer empathy
- Executive communication skills
- Technical fluency sufficient to navigate integrations and collaborate effectively with engineers
- Experience with payments, fuel or merchant networks, or fintech
- Comfort working in ambiguity and a fast-paced environment
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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