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Senior Manager, IT Engineering

Motive · Hybrid - Austin, Texas; Hybrid - Nashville, Tennessee; Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle · Hybrid

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About Motive

Motive provides an integrated platform to help improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet operations for the physical economy. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

The Senior Manager, IT Engineering will lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of Motive’s global IT engineering capabilities. This role will translate functional objectives into reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across infrastructure, networks, systems, and automation while leading complex initiatives across multiple teams. You will report into Austin Karr (Global Head of IT). This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, or Nashville. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in IT engineering, infrastructure, systems engineering, network engineering, or a related discipline
  • 5+ years of experience leading and managing technical teams in a high-growth or globally distributed environment
  • Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, networking, systems administration, automation, and security principles
  • Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional programs from strategy and architecture through successful execution
  • Experience establishing technical strategy, engineering standards, OKRs, resource plans, and operating metrics
  • Ability to synthesize complex technical and business requirements into clear recommendations and durable solutions
More about this role

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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

The Senior Manager, IT Engineering will lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of Motive’s global IT engineering capabilities. This role will translate functional objectives into reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across infrastructure, networks, systems, and automation while leading complex initiatives across multiple teams. You will report into Austin Karr (Global Head of IT). This is a hybrid role...

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