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 100000 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 Motives 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 Youll 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 Were 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 Motives core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives.
Please review our Candidate Privacy Noticehere .
UK Candidate Privacy Notice here.
The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.It is Motives policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.
#LI-Remote
Required Experience:
Manager
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...
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 100000 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 to learn more.
About the Role:
The Telematics organization powers the data backbone behind Motives 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 Youll 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 Were 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 Motives core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives.
Please review our Candidate Privacy Noticehere .
UK Candidate Privacy Notice here.
The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.It is Motives policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.
#LI-Remote
Required Experience:
Manager
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