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Technical Program Manager

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 Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

As a Senior Technical Program Manager on Motive’s embedded Technical Program Management (TPM) team, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs that span hardware, firmware, software, product, operations, and external partners. You will focus on program strategy, execution, stakeholder alignment, dependency management, and delivery across technical teams. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering operations, product development, or a related field
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs involving multiple engineering disciplines and partner teams
  • Strong understanding of program planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, launch readiness, and product development processes
  • Ability to understand technical tradeoffs and use structured analysis to guide decisions without owning the underlying engineering design
  • Demonstrated success building consensus and driving execution across teams with competing priorities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting recommendations and status updates to leadership
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.

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As a Senior Technical Program Manager on Motive’s embedded Technical Program Management (TPM) team, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs that span hardware, firmware, software, product, operations, and external partners. You will focus on program strategy, execution, stakeholder alignment, dependency management, and delivery across technical teams.

You will lead programs from planning through launch and...

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