Business Operations Lead

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Hiring Remotely in United States
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137K-209K Annually
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Hardware • Information Technology • Sales • Software • Transportation
Unlock the potential of the physical economy.
The Role
The Business Operations Lead will empower physical operations by providing tools for safety, productivity, and profitability. Responsibilities include managing drivers, vehicles, equipment, and spend related to fleet operations with a focus on automation and simplification of tasks.
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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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

Business Operations at Motive is a highly cross-functional group that is responsible for developing our go-to-market strategy, improving go-to-market efficiency, and ensuring that we are hitting our growth targets. Our team is maniacal about and energized by the challenge of getting our hands dirty in any problem across Sales, Marketing, or Customer Success, and finding ways to help us scale more efficiently. We are a low-ego, highly-motivated group that collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and execution. Examples of major strategic initiatives Business Operations takes on are optimizing the structure of our sales force, experimenting with new sales and marketing motions, and determining how we can leverage AI to improve operations.

What You'll Do:

  • Develop go-to-market strategies by analyzing market trends, customer segmentation, and Motive’s competitive landscape. Collaborate with senior leaders to prioritize high-growth opportunities and drive strategic execution, ensuring alignment across all go-to-market functions.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives that connect the dots across different functions and stakeholders. You will be the driving force behind high-impact, strategic initiatives that are critical to scaling our business by facilitating communication and collaboration between departments to ensure alignment and effective execution.
  • Create robust analytical models and dashboards to provide actionable insights into go-to-market and product performance. You will take a hands-on approach to proactively identify trends, opportunities, and risks, translating data into clear recommendations for optimizing commercial results.
  • Champion operational efficiency by continuously identifying and addressing process inefficiencies - you never stop asking “can we be doing this better?” Design and implement innovative solutions to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and drive a culture of continuous improvement across the organization.

What We're Looking For:

  • 6+ years of relevant experience in banking, consulting or private equity combined with in-house experience at a SaaS company
  • Recent experience at a hyper-growth and rapidly scaling SaaS company 
  • Recent Bachelor's degree required; MBA is a plus
  • Advanced communication, presentation, and organization skills
  • Executive presence and comfort communicating with the C-suite
  • Exceptional spreadsheet / data management skills, SQL proficiency preferred
  • Expert with Google Sheets & Excel, with the ability to build and create data & analytical models 
  • Intellectual curiosity supported by exceptional analytical skill
  • Strong, demonstrated leadership capabilities
  • Experience working on cross-functional projects with various stakeholders and a demonstrated expertise in managing such projects
  • Able to work in ambiguous, fast paced, environments under tight and unpredictable timelines
  • Located in San Francisco Bay Area a plus


Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

United States

$137,000$209,000 USD

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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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
3,600 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

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. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

Why Work With Us

We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.

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