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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.\nMotive 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.\nVisit gomotive.com to learn more.\nAbout the Role: \nMotive 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.\nAs 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.\nPosition Overview\nAs 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. \nYou 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nPartner directly with the VP of Platform Services and Engineering Managers to translate organizational priorities into clear, executable program roadmaps with measurable business outcomes.\nLead end-to-end execution of complex, cross-functional technical programs across Platform Services Engineering, from definition and planning through delivery and adoption.\nDrive alignment across engineering and partner teams by managing goals, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and execution risks with clear operating rhythms.\nBuild scalable program mechanisms, including roadmap reviews, status reporting, escalation paths, and success metrics that improve visibility and accountability.\nIdentify systemic issues and execution gaps early, and lead teams toward practical, durable solutions that support departmental and functional objectives.\nInfluence technical and business stakeholders at multiple levels to make informed tradeoff decisions and keep strategic initiatives moving forward.\nMentor others through strong program management practices and help elevate execution standards across the broader engineering organization.\nDrive Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, executive reporting, and cross-organizational communications to align executive leadership, product partners, and engineering leads.\nCollaborate with Product leadership on mapping the product roadmap into programs that interface with multiple product engineering teams.\nImplement dynamic program tracking frameworks (e.g., Gantt / single-source-of-truth models) that flag delivery risks weeks in advance.\nRequired Qualifications & Experience\n7+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or a related role within software, infrastructure, or platform organizations.\n15+ years of experience in the technology industry.\nProven track record leading large, ambiguous, multi-team programs with significant cross-functional dependencies and measurable business or platform impact.\nStrong technical fluency and the ability to engage credibly with engineering leaders and teams on architecture, trade offs, delivery risks, and execution plans.\nDemonstrated strength in structuring programs, driving decision-making, and solving complex problems in fast-paced, evolving environments.\nExperience building alignment across senior stakeholders and improving communication, governance, and execution across interdependent teams.\nOutcome-Oriented Focus: Demonstrated bias for action and root-cause problem solving over administrative tracking; experience moving beyond Jira hygiene to actively unblocking delivery.\nExecutive Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to synthesize technical complexities into clear executive summaries and trade-off matrices.\n Data-Driven Approach: Expertise in establishing objective metrics (MetricSense, Datadog dashboards, SLO attainment, cost trends) to govern program success.\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nBackground as a Software Engineer, Systems/Delivery Architect, or Technical Product Manager prior to transitioning into TPM leadership.\nExperience driving AI-assisted developer workflow tooling or agentic automation in developer environments.\n Pay Transparency\nYour 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 visitingMotive Perks & Benefits.\nThe compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:\nUnited States\n$190,000—$235,000 USD\nCreating 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. \nPlease review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.\nUK Candidate Privacy Notice here.\nThe applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. \nRegarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. This requirement does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees working in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.\nNon-compete covenant terms in all other jurisdictions will be subject to the applicable statutory requirements, including but not limited to, procedures, industry related prohibitions, or salary and compensation thresholds.\nAll job postings are for existing vacancies. 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