Product Manager, Safety (AI)

Who we are:

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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We are seeking a product manager to join our Safety Product team, where you will help drive forward 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, AI 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.

We are looking for a product manager who is excited to make an impact in a critical industry and has the skills to match. If you join our team, you will be working on some of the most challenging problems with a team that values growth, recognition and camaraderie.

Who We Are: 

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: 

• 3+ years of experience in Product Management
• 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

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. 

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