Project Manager - Solutions 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 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 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:

In the role of Project Manager on the Solutions Engineering team, you will serve as a strategic collaborator managing high-impact projects with cross-functional teams. You will be responsible for process, organization, and communication to improve engineering efficiency as we scale. You'll drive quarterly and sprint planning, execution, and delivery.

As a Project Manager, you will not only be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of technical projects, ensuring they meet business requirements, timelines, and quality standards, but will also collaborate and engage in day-to-day operations with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and design to meet defined targets. You will also get a chance to coach Engineering Managers (EMs), Project Managers (PMs), and engineers to drive an organization-wide culture of continuous improvement.

What You'll Do:

Planning

• Closely collaborate with the leadership team to define quarterly or bi-annual planning, roadmap, objectives, scope, and deliverables.
• Work with engineering teams on creating detailed project plans, including tasks, timelines, and resource allocation. Identify and manage project dependencies and risks.

Team Coordination

• Coordinate and align design, product, and engineering teams involved in projects to facilitate effective communication, collaboration, and drive decisions.
• Work with team members to move forward in case of any roadblocks or conflicts.
• Carry out daily scrum meetings and take follow-up actions on behalf of team members from other stakeholders.
• Set up meetings for internal teams with other stakeholders.

Project Execution

• Ensure project execution is going according to plan and track milestones.
• Track and report weekly project status updates to stakeholders.

Risk Management

• Identify risks and blockers, then work to mitigate and unblock through all the tools in your toolkit.

Day-to-Day Operations

• Lead, own, and improve sprint rituals, such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and demos.
• Ensure correct reflection of teams’ assignments and their statuses on tools, boards, and dashboards.
• Make sure that internal Slack channels are given responses in a timely manner.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive the culture of continuous improvement by identifying any opportunities to improve current processes that can contribute towards teams’ productivity and efficiency.
• Lead and organize quarter and project-level retrospectives to extract key learnings.

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience in Program Management (development). Prior technical experience or a technical degree is recommended.
• Experience with project management software (such as JIRA, Confluence, Coda, etc.).
• You pride yourself on your organization and communication.
• Ability to lead and coach without authority.
• Ability to gain meaningful insights from data and create an action plan.
• Capacity to work in a fast-paced, continuously changing environment - You’ll jump in wherever you can.
• Strong experience with agile methodologies. CSM or PMP certification is a bonus.

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.