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Salary: USD 140,000 - 190,000 / annual
Motive is a SaaS platform that empowers physical operations teams—including safety, operations, and finance—with unified tools for managing drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet spend. The company serves nearly 100,000 customers across transportation, logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food & beverage, retail, and public sector.
As Senior Manager, IT Engineering, you will lead Motive's global IT engineering strategy, architecture, and execution. Reporting to the Global Head of IT, you will translate functional objectives into reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across infrastructure, networks, systems, and automation. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and business judgment.
Key responsibilities:
- Establish IT engineering strategy, roadmap, OKRs, and resource plans aligned with business objectives
- Lead design and execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives improving reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency
- Define architecture principles, engineering standards, and operating practices across infrastructure, networking, systems, automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery
- Translate business needs into effective technical solutions; guide build-versus-buy, vendor, and technology decisions
- Establish performance metrics, documentation standards, and operating mechanisms to improve service quality and decision-making
- Develop the team through clear expectations, coaching, succession planning, and ongoing talent development
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, or Nashville.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in IT engineering, infrastructure, systems engineering, network engineering, or related discipline
- 5+ years of experience leading and managing technical teams in high-growth or globally distributed environments
- 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
