# Senior Manager, Security Operations 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: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gomotive/jobs/8811800002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/motive-senior-manager-security-operations/

## About the role

We are hiring a Senior Manager, Security Operations to build, lead and grow Motive's SOC. This is a founding leadership role — you will shape the team, the tooling, the detection strategy and the operating model rather than inheriting a mature organization and maintaining it. Reporting to the CISO, you will own the full detection and response lifecycle: detection engineering, 24/7 incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, security analytics, and endpoint and workload security.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in security operations, incident response, detection engineering or threat intelligence, with 3+ years leading teams
- Experience building or substantially rebuilding a SOC function, rather than only operating within an established one
- Credible across both estates — production and cloud security monitoring as well as corporate and enterprise security operations. Candidates strong in only one should be ready to show how they would build the other
- Strong background in cloud and container security monitoring, with AWS and Kubernetes strongly preferred, including the practical reality that production monitoring must be introduced without destabilizing production
- Solid grounding in identity-centric attack paths — SSO, OAuth, session compromise, MFA bypass and privilege escalation across SaaS and cloud
- Proven incident command experience on significant incidents, including executive communication under pressure, and the judgment to escalate appropriately without crying wolf or sitting on something serious

Tags: Security