Job Description
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 gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Lead Product Manager for our Telematics Platform. This team is at the center of Motive's product ecosystem responsible for the centralized platform that collects ingests processes and serves all vehicle and device data. You will be a key voice in the long-term vision strategy and execution for this platform which is the foundation of our most critical customer-facing products.
You will be the partner for all other product teams who build their experiences on telematics platforms. You will also lead the charge in productizing our telematics data directly building API-first products and rich integrations for our largest Enterprise customers.
This is a deeply technical strategic and high-impact role. You will be the central pillar of product leadership wrestling with complex engineering challenges and driving alignment across the company to shape the future of Motive's data platform.
What You'll Do:
- Own the long-term vision strategy and roadmap for the Telematics data platform balancing enterprise-grade reliability with feature innovation.
- Partner closely with R&D leads to solve core platform challenges and deliver enterprise-grade reliability for key data services.
- Lead defining and launching customer-facing Telematics APIs webhooks and data integrations for the Enterprise segment.
- Drive platform readiness for strategic initiatives including international expansion.
- Collaborate with AI teams to make telematics data a core component of Motive's AI differentiation including new analytics and automated workflows.
- Mentor and coach other Product Managers on the team to scale the product function within this critical domain.
- Lead the charge in productizing telematics data directly by building API-first products and rich integrations for the largest Enterprise customers.
- Serve as the central pillar of product leadership wrestling with complex engineering challenges and driving alignment across the company.
What We're Looking For:
- Possess 8+ years of product management experience with a proven track record in a lead role.
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Exhibit experience building and scaling complex data platforms API-first products IoT systems or large-scale distributed systems.
- Know how to manage a platform as a product balancing the needs of multiple internal stakeholders with external customer requirements.
- Demonstrate the ability to drive alignment influence roadmaps and build consensus across numerous product engineering and GTM teams without direct authority.
- Be able to dive deep into data to understand platform health while also engaging with enterprise customers to understand their integration needs.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and be comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity.
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 product management experience with a proven track record in a lead role.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience building and scaling complex data platforms API-first products IoT systems or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience managing a platform as a product balancing multiple internal stakeholders and external customer requirements.
- Ability to drive alignment influence roadmaps and build consensus across product engineering and GTM teams without direct authority.
- Experience engaging with enterprise customers to understand integration needs and delivering customer-facing APIs and integrations.
- Ability to dive deep into data to understand platform health and metrics.
- Experience mentoring and coaching other Product Managers to scale the product function.
- Experience collaborating with AI teams to integrate telematics data into analytics and automated workflows.
- Comfort thriving in a fast-paced environment and navigating ambiguity and complexity.
What the Team is Saying
Motive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Motive Insights
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 120000 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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