# Director, Developer Platform & Experience at Motive

- Company: Motive
- What the company does: Motive provides an integrated platform to help improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet operations for the physical economy. Backed by Index, Insight and IVP.
- Company website: https://gomotive.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gomotive/jobs/8686131002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/motive-director-developer-platform-and-experience/

## About the role

We are hiring a Director of Developer Platform & Experience to own that execution and the platform underneath it. This role owns Motive's internal developer ecosystem end to end: developer experience, developer infrastructure, build and CI/CD systems, and the testing frameworks that let hundreds of engineers move quickly without breaking things.

## What they're looking for

- Own the inner loop end to end: local and cloud development environments, code search and navigation, IDE and agent tooling, dependency management, and onboarding time-to-first-PR
- Treat developers as your customers. Run regular DevEx research — surveys, interviews, instrumented telemetry — and publish a prioritized backlog the whole engineering org can see
- Define and drive the internal developer platform: golden paths, service scaffolding, and self-service capabilities that make the right way the easy way
- 12+ years in software engineering with 6+ years leading engineering teams, including 2+ years as a manager of managers (Director, Senior Manager of Managers, or equivalent scope)
- A real developer background — you have shipped and operated production systems, and engineers respect your technical judgment
- Deep DevOps and infrastructure depth: CI/CD, build systems, containers and Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and observability

Tags: Software Engineering