Senior Manager, IT Engineering
GoMotive · Hybrid - Austin, Texas; Hybrid - Nashville, Tennessee; Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle
About this role
**Senior Manager, IT Engineering** **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 drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system—powered by industry-leading AI to automate and simplify tasks and reduce manual workload. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers—from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses—across transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. **About the role** The Senior Manager, IT Engineering will lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of Motive’s global IT engineering capabilities. You’ll translate functional objectives into reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across infrastructure, networks, systems, and automation, while leading complex initiatives across multiple teams. You’ll report into Austin Karr (Global Head of IT). This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, or Nashville. **What you’ll do** - Establish the IT engineering strategy, roadmap, OKRs, and resource plans aligned with functional objectives. - Lead the 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. **What we’re looking for** - 10+ years of experience in IT engineering, infrastructure, systems engineering, network engineering, or a related discipline. - 5+ years of experience leading and managing technical teams in a high-growth or globally distributed environment. - 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. **Pay transparency** Base compensation range: **$140,000 — $190,000 USD** **Additional notes** - Motive is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion. - The applicant must be authorized to receive and access U.S.-controlled commodities and technologies. - For certain US-based roles, candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant (with exceptions where prohibited by law). - Some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at global offices.
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