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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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Motive Technologies is looking for a Director of Engineering, Telematics, who is passionate about building new Telematics capabilities and features that will serve as the data backbone that powers Motive’s products. We need an experienced and ambitious leader who can think architecturally, articulate a compelling long-term technical vision, execute on realistic yet ambitious plans, and grow our Engineering team in San Francisco, CA and Toronto, Canada.
What You’ll Do:- Define and implement a technology vision for building new product features for Telematics
- Manage the product and business outcomes of the engineering teams
- Develop a long-term product roadmap in collaboration with product teams
- Lead technical design discussions by collaborating with multiple teams, including other embedded teams, backend engineers, product managers etc
- Hire, manage, and develop a diverse team of distributed yet highly productive engineers. This includes providing technical guidance as well as effective coaching and career development
- Bachelors or Masters in Engineering or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, working on embedded devices (RTOS, Linux or Android; Android preferred)
- 5+ years of experience managing 10+ engineers
- Ability to drive architectural designs of software systems, navigating complex product requirements and engineering constraints
- Demonstrated success in hiring, managing, motivating, and promoting effective engineers
- Proven track record as a nimble and proactive thinker and doer, who thrives in an environment that demands excellence
- Passion for continuous experimentation and learning, coupled with a desire to make things run faster, and better
Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:
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