
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 more than 120,000 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:

The Technical Program Manager (TPM) role within the Motive Hardware organization is a role intended for those individuals who are willing to take total ownership of product development  projects and drive them to a successful completion.  The TPM will coordinate the contributions of a wide variety of internal FW teams to deliver projects on time, on budget, and within specification. Coordination with external teams may be required as well.  The TPM will aid individual groups in creating time and resource estimates, tracking schedule and progress, creating and tracking test plans and responding to product issues found during testing. As the product matures, the TPM will aid the go-to-market process, helping organizations prepare for the launch of the product and also set up metrics and dashboards to monitor project success and health

What You’ll Do: 

Prepare formal project plans including schedules and deliverables, primarily from internal organizations, but may also include integration of external teams
Administer a formal review process to validate each development phase has completed successfully, and the product is ready for the next phase 
Monitor progress of projects and report status, plans, and issues to management
Develop and implement strategies to minimize schedule and technical risk
Help validate that test plans are complete and that testing is completed successfully.
Respond to issues that develop during the project by coordinating resolution amongst multiple groups.
Coach engineers, Product Managers and leads on effective processes and best practices, including Agile development processes
What We’re Looking For: 

5+ years of experience in the development and management of firmware for embedded products.
Experience should include project scheduling, resource allocation, task management, risk management and other basic Program Management functions.
Experience managing projects that include multiple teams at multiple sites.
Experience managing outsourced firmware projects.
Ability to lead without authority and prioritize effectively in ambiguous situations.
Capacity to work in a fast paced, continuously changing environment.
Creating 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.

🤹🏼 Technical Program 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 industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 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.

As a Database Engineer at Motive, you will ensure that our databases are performant, reliable, scalable, and automated. While overseeing more than 100 databases, almost all of which are PostgreSQL, you will also have a hand in the success of Motive’s expanded use of AWS managed data layer services (such as MySQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redshift, etc.). Working with product team engineers across a great variety of use cases, you will analyze the performance of databases and systems to provide optimizations and partner with product engineers on query tuning to help us keep scaling safely. As a member of Database Engineering team, you will execute zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance helping Motive to achieve 99.99% SLAs.

Responsibilities:
Design and implement high availability database architecture in AWS
Partner with developers and SREs to build and automate the provisioning of new infrastructure
Continuously monitor and improve database performance via proactive database maintenance, schema updates, table partitioning, etc.
Collaborate with developers to optimize database queries 
Automate routine database administration and maintenance tasks ensuring the health of databases
Plan and execute disaster recovery scenarios
Build dashboards for database health and alerting
Perform Terraform deployments of database instances and clusters
Manage database upgrades and migrations with minimal to zero-downtime
Work with our Data and ML teams on Kafka and Snowflake integrations and data flows from our main DBs
Oversee database security policies implementation, including user and group permissions management, data security and retention
Take on-call duty to respond to production incidents
 Requirements:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of experience working with PostgreSQL
Experience building and maintaining mission-critical production PostgreSQL databases 
Solid understanding of PostgreSQL database architecture (locking, consistency, transaction logging, etc)
AWS database services experience (RDS/Aurora, etc.)
Experience with high-availability, backup and recovery solutions and strategies
Advanced knowledge of query tuning and optimization techniques
Experience provisioning PostgreSQL databases in AWS with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Datadog, New Relic, Sumo Logic
Experience with connection pooling tools (such as Pgbouncer, RDS Proxy)
Experience with other databases like MySql, DynamoDB, Redshift, Elasticsearch, Snowflake is a plus

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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 more than 120,000 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.

We are seeking a product manager to join our Safety Product team, where you will help drive forward a suite of integrated, intelligent safety solutions for drivers, fleets and partners. 

The role demands technical depth, principled thinking, a high bar for quality, structured communication, bold innovation, and a mentality of starting with the customer and working backwards. You will work alongside a star team from engineering, data science, AI computer vision, research & design, marketing, operations, legal, sales & customer success in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, technology environment to build intelligent experiences to shift behavior and drive ROI-positive impact for customers.

We are looking for a product manager who is excited to make an impact in a critical industry and has the skills to match. If you join our team, you will be working on some of the most challenging problems with a team that values growth, recognition and camaraderie.

Who We Are: 

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.

Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

About the Role: 

As a Product Manager at Motive, you will partner closely with other product managers, engineers, sales teams, and additional stakeholders to make our vision of connecting the world’s vehicle fleets a reality. In this role, we’ll be relying on you to own the success of mission-critical initiatives that will drive rapid company growth.  In particular, you’ll need to quickly develop expert knowledge of our customers, our offerings, and the market.  In return, you’ll receive visibility across the organization and will be a key voice in one of the most exciting companies in the transportation industry. This is a great time to join Motive, and we’re looking for heavy-hitters to join us on our mission.

What You’ll Do: 

Become an expert in all things Safety at Motive, deeply learning all of the product surfaces
Drive AI feature development forward, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of new features while also ensuring existing AI features perform to Motive’s high standard
Proactively identify areas where documentation, support articles, or wiki pages are lacking sufficient clarity on product functionality and build a plan to fill gaps
Get close to our customers to discover their needs and translate that into solutions that help them get more out of Motive.
Develop new products to drive growth, increase engagement and increase retention across Motive’s Safety product
Partner with business leaders from stakeholder teams on formulation and execution of strategy, vision and product roadmap
What We’re Looking For: 

3+ years of experience in Product Management
Sufficient technical skills to understand how our products are engineered
Some knowledge or willingness to quickly learn and understand AI / Computer Vision model functionality
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with different personality types and seniority levels
High customer empathy, with a desire to get in the shoes of our customers
Have high “EQ”; be even-keeled, flexible, and able to quickly adapt to unexpected changes
Be data-driven; you regularly seek out and use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and opinions

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