Senior Product Manager, AI Platform

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 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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About the Role: 

Are you passionate about defining and building products that fundamentally shift the physical economy from reactive management to proactive, intelligent operations?

Motive is on an AI-first mission to create an intelligent, always-on co-pilot that helps our customers manage their massive operations autonomously. This role is a foundational opportunity to lead the strategy and roadmap for our core AI Platform and Automation Engine—the intelligence layer upon which all next-generation products are built.

You will own the product strategy for the underlying components that enable our products to:

• Move from Reactive to Proactive: Build systems that anticipate critical issues and intervene autonomously to prevent them.
• Empower Humans, Not Replace Them: Free our customers from tedious, manual, and repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on high-value, strategic work.
• Scale Intelligently: Create a platform that learns from every interaction, delivering continuously adaptive and personalized value to the largest fleets in the world.

This is a high-scope, high-impact position with direct executive visibility. You will be instrumental in translating complex operational challenges into simple, automated solutions, collaborating closely with senior engineering, design, and data science teams to bring our most ambitious AI capabilities to market at enterprise scale.

What You’ll Do: 

Recognized as the expert on AI Platform capabilities within the Motive Product organization, you will:

• Own the Core AI Platform Strategy: Define the vision, strategy, and execution roadmap for Motive’s core AI and Automation Platform, focusing on delivering scalable intelligence across our integrated operations platform.
• Drive Strategic Alignment: Analyze market trends, competitive positioning, and customer needs to inform strategic decisions regarding our platform offerings and competitive edge.
• Translate Technology into Value: Partner closely with Engineering and Data Science to translate core AI/ML capabilities and large, real-time data sets into reliable, production-ready products that create massive, measurable customer value.
• Enable Proactive Solutions: Identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact automation and intelligent intervention opportunities across the customer journey, from the field to the back office.
• Define Success: Establish clear, business-driven success metrics for the platform (e.g., efficiency gains, reduction in manual effort) and ensure every feature delivers meaningful outcomes for enterprise fleets.
• Be the Customer Champion: Engage frequently with our customers to discover their most pressing operational needs and advocate for intuitive, unified, and autonomous experiences.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with product leaders and GTM teams to ensure platform features are ethical, transparent, and seamlessly integrated across all user experiences.

What We’re Looking For: 

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, specifically in an enterprise SaaS environment
• You are a proven 0-1 builder, and know how to execute at a high level in a fast paced environment. 
• Demonstrated ability to define a strategic roadmap, gain organizational buy-in, and successfully take complex technical products from concept to launch.
• Sufficient technical depth to comfortably collaborate with Data Scientists and AI/ML Engineers on model capabilities, performance, and productionization.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort interpreting large data sets to guide product decisions and measure success, focusing on outcomes over outputs.
• High customer empathy and the ability to translate complex operational pain points into simple, elegant, and autonomous product experiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams and executive stakeholde