Director, Developer Platform & Experience
GoMotive · Hybrid - San Francisco, California; Hybrid - Seattle
About this role
**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—combined with industry-leading AI to reduce manual workload through automation and simplification. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers across transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. Learn more: http://gomotive.com --- ## About the role Motive is moving to an **AI-driven development lifecycle (AI-DLC)**. Agents that plan, generate, test, review, and help operate our systems—while engineers direct the work—are where software engineering at Motive is going. We’re hiring a **Director of Developer Platform & Experience** to own the execution and the platform underneath it. This role owns Motive’s internal developer ecosystem end to end: - **Developer experience** - **Developer infrastructure** - **Build and CI/CD systems** - **Testing frameworks** that let hundreds of engineers move quickly without breaking things - **AI-DLC in practice**: tooling, cloud agent infrastructure, evaluation practice, and governance This is a **builder’s leadership role**. You’ll inherit real systems and real teams, and you’ll be measured on whether engineers ship **faster**, with **higher confidence**, and with **less friction** than the prior quarter. --- ## The mandates 1. **AI-driven development** — make agentic development a governed, measured, everyday part of how Motive builds software. 2. **Cloud-based agentic development infrastructure** — build the substrate that lets agents run in the cloud, in parallel, safely. 3. **Developer experience** — make the inner loop fast and the right path the easy path. 4. **Developer infrastructure** — make build, CI/CD, and release systems fast, reliable, and cost-aware at scale. --- ## Defining challenge: agentic development in the cloud Most AI coding adoption stops at the laptop (one engineer, one agent, one local checkout). This role is about moving beyond that ceiling by building infrastructure that runs agentic development in the cloud: - **Ephemeral, reproducible, isolated environments** - Many agents working **concurrently** on real Motive codebases - Running **real tests** against **real dependencies** - Opening **real pull requests**—without engineers babysitting terminals - Without compromising **security** or **spending** --- ## What you’ll own ### AI-driven development lifecycle (AI-DLC) - Translate Motive’s AI-driven development direction into an executable multi-year plan (including “human in the loop” at each stage). - Evaluate, select, and roll out AI developer tools (coding agents, code review, test generation, incident investigation, documentation) and build internal scaffolding (context, MCP servers, evals, guardrails). - Stand up rigorous LLM/agent evaluation practice (benchmarks, offline/online evals, quality & cost regression tracking, defensible model/vendor selection). - Own governance with Security, Legal, and Platform (acceptable use, code provenance/licensing, secrets/data handling, audit trails). - Define and report adoption/impact metrics. - Drive enablement and cultural shift toward continuous review of agent-generated work. ### Cloud-based agentic development infrastructure - Build an
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