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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Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of the physical economy. The Platform Services Organization serves as the backbone of Motive’s engineering operations, delivering foundational infrastructure, developer ecosystem tooling, cloud operations, SRE reliability, data pipelines, and core services capabilities.
As Motive scales, our platform architecture requires unified, company-wide execution across horizontal initiatives. We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join as a strategic operational leader. Reporting directly to the VP of Platform Services, this role will drive high-impact, cross-cutting technical programs that span across Motive’s entire product and engineering organization.
As a Technical Program Manager at Motive, you will lead complex, high-impact programs that strengthen our platform foundations and improve how engineering teams deliver at scale. This role is ideal for someone who brings strong technical judgment, structured program leadership, and the ability to create clarity across ambiguity, dependencies, and competing priorities. You will report into VP, Platform Services Engineering.
You will work across multiple engineering teams and partner functions to drive planning, execution, risk management, and operations.. You will help align teams around clear outcomes, improve execution across interdependent roadmaps, and raise the bar for how Motive delivers cross-functional platform initiatives. You will not be managing day-to-day sprint boards or acting as an administrative taskmaster. Instead, you will act as a cross-functional orchestrator - driving platform adoption, unblocking architectural shifts, and aligning multi-team investments across all of Motive.
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:
Canada$180,000—$210,000 USDCreating 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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