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The Vice President of Growth will set and execute Motive’s growth strategy across acquisition, conversion, onboarding, activation, retention, and expansion. This leader will build experimentation, measurement, forecasting, and growth economics programs; improve the customer journey; partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Finance, and Data; and build a high-performing growth organization. The role requires driving measurable, efficient growth through customer insights, analytics, automation, and scalable operating systems.

Leads Motive’s product marketing organization and strategy across its multi-product B2B SaaS portfolio. Owns positioning, messaging, customer and market insights, competitive intelligence, product launches, go-to-market strategy, sales enablement, campaigns, performance measurement, and cross-functional alignment. Builds a high-performing team and connects product capabilities to customer outcomes, pipeline, adoption, and expansion.

Partners with Account Executives to support mid-market sales through discovery, customized product demonstrations, solution design, RFI/RFP responses, and value-based selling. Translates customer challenges into measurable outcomes, advises technical and business stakeholders, explains APIs and integrations, and collaborates with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing. Requires strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, plus willingness to travel 15–20%.

Leads mechanical design and new product introduction for automotive-grade connected devices, specializing in ruggedized connectors, waterproof enclosures, cable harnesses, and sealing systems. Creates production-ready CAD models and drawings, performs tolerance and failure analysis, validates designs, and supports manufacturing readiness. Collaborates with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers across the product lifecycle, including NPI builds, process validation, production ramp, and critical field issue investigations. International travel supports offshore manufacturing and customer-site failure analysis.

Supports enterprise sales by partnering with Account Executives, leading discovery, delivering tailored demonstrations, translating customer challenges into solutions, and influencing executive buying decisions. The role requires expertise in value-based selling, solutions engineering, complex enterprise sales cycles, APIs, integrations, and technical solution design, while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing. Travel of 30% or more is required.

Commercial Counsel supporting high-volume sales contracting by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer agreements and order forms. The role partners with Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, and Privacy, manages deal queues and approvals, develops contracting playbooks and workflows, and builds AI-driven tools to automate routine legal work. Candidates should have substantial legal experience, strong SaaS or technology contracting expertise, excellent business judgment, and the ability to manage deadline-driven negotiations independently.

Own the hardware and firmware product strategy for Motive’s connected equipment-monitoring devices. Lead hardware NPI from concept through mass production, manage firmware roadmaps and OTA releases, improve installed-base reliability, battery life, connectivity, and installation performance, and direct device partnerships. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, cloud, mobile, and go-to-market teams while translating customer needs into technical requirements and product decisions.

Leads Motive’s global security compliance, privacy, risk, audit, customer trust, and AI governance functions. Builds integrated controls across ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and related frameworks; manages audits, privacy operations, international regulatory readiness, customer security reviews, policies, training, and human risk. The role also establishes AI-first automation, AI governance, and a path to FedRAMP while leading a distributed team and partnering across Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success.

Own a book of large enterprise accounts to drive adoption, value realization, renewals, and upsells. Lead onboarding and training, build C‑level relationships, manage escalations, coordinate cross-functional resources, capture product feedback, and ensure high customer satisfaction and retention.

Own full-cycle recruiting for sales and business-critical go-to-market roles, from intake through offer and closing. Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders on search strategy, candidate calibration, market insights, interview processes, and offers. Build passive-candidate pipelines through sourcing, networking, referrals, and market mapping. Use recruiting metrics and ATS data to identify bottlenecks and improve processes while delivering an inclusive candidate experience.