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Technical Program Manager, Platform Services

Motive · Hybrid - San Francisco, California · 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 Index, Insight and IVP.

About the role

Motive 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.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or a related role within software, infrastructure, or platform organizations
  • 15+ years of experience in the technology industry
  • Proven track record leading large, ambiguous, multi-team programs with significant cross-functional dependencies and measurable business or platform impact
  • Strong technical fluency and the ability to engage credibly with engineering leaders and teams on architecture, trade offs, delivery risks, and execution plans
  • Demonstrated strength in structuring programs, driving decision-making, and solving complex problems in fast-paced, evolving environments
  • Experience building alignment across senior stakeholders and improving communication, governance, and execution across interdependent teams
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.

Motive 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.

As Motive scales, our platform architecture requires unified,...

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