At Motive, we build technology that combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to enable 120,000+ companies to manage their fleets. Behind the software, you’ll find passionate, flexible, and curious people who drive innovation together.
Software Engineer
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 more than 120,000 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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About the Role:
Come be a part of the emerging and growing IoT Platform at Motive. We are the layer between our devices and all the backend motive services. We are responsible for ingesting all data to and from the devices in a scalable, secure and efficient fashion. We 1/ Present a unified management interface to various types of device hardware; 2/ Ensure that reported data is accurate and meets the requirements of consuming systems; 3/ Operate and improve the platform to meet availability and responsiveness requirements for Motive and our Customers.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager of the IoT platform team, you will work closely with experienced Motive engineers to build new and refactor existing services to connect our fleet of devices to our cloud platform. Initial projects could include building and scaling our messaging pipelines that ingest device published data, improving the reliability, security and observability of our AWS Lambdas and K8s Services.
Responsibilities:
- Implementing Microservices or Lambda functions to empower our iot device and their data
- Building data models and APIs to help manage and maintain our fleet of devices
- Building message pipelines to allow efficient and scalable transfer of data from and to our devices
- Improve the cloud security of our IoT devices and infrastructure
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience developing software products and services in a team environment with source control, build management, and automated deployment practices
- Mastery of programming/coding practices (Golang and/or Ruby on Rails preferred) with confidence and experience in debugging and problem-solving skills
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture and application deployment
- Experience with messaging pipelines like Kafka
- A desire to mentor and grow engineers of all levels
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus Skills
- Experience with MQTT
- Experience with AWS Lambdas
- Experience with AWS IoT
- Previous work experience at a hardware company
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive’s core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Data Engineer
As a Data Engineer you will be part of the core data team building out world class data models and pipelines that will feed into our products. You will be working on the intersection of all data streams in the company from our IOT data consuming 100s of thousands of data points per minute to our user data. You will partner closely with both the Product, Engineering, as well as the Strategic Analytics teams. We are seeking strong team players who thrive on innovation and continuous improvement. We pride ourselves on our culture, and ability to work effectively across a highly diversified team.
You will be joining a new team driving the creation of our new data infrastructure to support our Enterprise client needs. We are building a new platform out with a compelling scope in integrating the latest technology as we build the product. Your contributions will directly feed products that will be used by 100s of thousands of users using our product.
What You’ll Do:
- Build data pipelines based on product data which will go into our product for Enterprise customers
- Architect and design data models in collaboration with data and product teams
- Communicate effectively across multiple teams and projects.
- Actively work on deploying Data Ops into Motive, driving the most robust data models using the latest tools in the market
- You will be working with airflow, aws, data observability tooling and table creation frameworks similar to dbt.
What We’re Looking For:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field, e.g. Computer Science, Math, Economics, or Statistics
- 6+ years experience in Data Engineering, including experience building modeled tables
- Strong applied knowledge in SQL, Python and modern data engineering stack (dbt, airflow, AWS)
- Willingness to learn new technologies
- Solid communication, collaboration, and people skills
- High standard of
Senior Product Manager, Safety
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.
Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.
About the Role:
As a Product Manager at Motive, you will partner closely with other product managers, engineers, sales teams, and additional stakeholders to make our vision of connecting the world’s vehicle fleets a reality. In this role, we’ll be relying on you to own the success of mission-critical initiatives that will drive rapid company growth. In particular, you’ll need to quickly develop expert knowledge of our customers, our offerings, and the market. In return, you’ll receive visibility across the organization and will be a key voice in one of the most exciting companies in the transportation industry. This is a great time to join Motive, and we’re looking for heavy-hitters to join us on our mission.
What You’ll Do:
- Become an expert in all things Safety at Motive, deeply learning all of the product surfaces
- Drive AI feature development forward, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of new features while also ensuring existing AI features perform to Motive’s high standard
- Proactively identify areas where documentation, support articles, or wiki pages are lacking sufficient clarity on product functionality and build a plan to fill gaps
- Get close to our customers to discover their needs and translate that into solutions that help them get more out of Motive.
- Develop new products to drive growth, increase engagement and increase retention across Motive’s Safety product
- Partner with business leaders from stakeholder teams on formulation and execution of strategy, vision and product roadmap
What We’re Looking For:
- 5-6+ years of experience in Product Management, specifically working with B2B enterprise customers
- Sufficient technical skills to understand how our products are engineered
- Some knowledge or willingness to quickly learn and understand AI / Computer Vision model functionality
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with different personality types and seniority levels
- High customer empathy, with a desire to get in the shoes of our customers
- Have high “EQ”; be even-keeled, flexible, and able to quickly adapt to unexpected changes
- Be data-driven; you regularly seek out and use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and opinions
Group Product Manager, Safety/AI
We are not solving a small problem, and we’re not addressing a small market. We are addressing significant issues faced by trillion-dollar industries that power the physical economy, including logistics, transportation, food & beverage, passenger transit, construction, and oil & gas. These businesses continue to be the lifelines of our economy. The opportunity here is enormous, and you will have a massive impact.
We are seeking an experienced product manager to join our Safety Product team, where you will be owning a suite of integrated, intelligent safety solutions for drivers, fleets and partners.
The role demands technical depth, principled thinking, a high bar for quality, structured communication, bold innovation, and a mentality of starting with the customer and working backwards. You will work alongside a star team from engineering, data science, computer vision, research & design, marketing, operations, legal, sales & customer success in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, technology environment to build intelligent experiences to shift behavior and drive ROI-positive impact for customers.
What You’ll Do:
- As a Group Product Manager, you will play a critical role in owning several key elements of the Safety platform and driving our overall Safety product to its next stage of growth
- Be bold and think strategically about improvements to our product or new frontiers of growth
- Strive in a player/coach role and mentor a high-performing team to deliver exceptional product outcomes while rolling up your sleeves and maintaining a hands-on approach to project execution
- Demonstrate proficiency in navigating the technical complexities of the product, spanning software, hardware, AI, and data domains
- Partner with business leaders from various stakeholder teams on formulation and execution of strategy, vision and product roadmap
- Work closely with other product managers, within and outside of Safety, to develop and implement the product strategy
- Engage our customers to discover their needs and translate that into solutions that help them get more out of Motive
- Partner closely with our engineering and design team to build capabilities that turn our customers into raving fans
- Conduct market research that will assist in driving feature prioritization
- Collaborate with GTM teams to develop sales strategies and marketing campaigns
- Analyze performance metrics to measure the success of product launches
- Actively contribute to an amazing work culture
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience with Product Management
- High customer empathy, with a desire to get in the shoes of our customers
- Have high “EQ”; be even-keeled, flexible, and able to quickly adapt to unexpected changes
- Proven experience in delivering commercially successful software products
- Be data-driven; you regularly seek out and use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and opinions
- You are comfortable and confident sharing your thoughts in verbal or written form. You can engage constructively in debate and discussion with different personality types and seniority levels.
- You are a trailblazer who is humble, kind, and open to learning new stuff. You can take a stand yet commit even when you disagree. You have a strong bias to action (aka hustle) and are not afraid to get your hands dirty.
- Have enough technical knowledge to enough to gain the respect of engineers
- Experience working effectively with remote/offshore teams