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Motive

Field operations safety and productivity software

Vice President - Mid Market

Full-Time
No salary listed
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Nashville, TN, USA+1 moreMore locations: Austin, TX, USA
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Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 12 years of progressive B2B sales experience, including substantial leadership experience in mid-market or enterprise new-logo sales.
  • A track record of delivering results in a meaningful, complex sales organization and scaling performance through multiple stages of growth.
  • Experience leading through managers and developing strong sales leaders and high-performing teams.
  • Deep expertise in building and operating a repeatable new-logo sales motion, including pipeline generation, qualification, forecasting, deal inspection, territory design, and capacity planning.
  • Strong commercial judgment and the ability to understand customer business models, quantify value, and position a multi-product platform against competing priorities.
  • A data-driven approach to decision-making and the ability to turn analysis into focused action.
  • Experience partnering effectively across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Product, Finance, Enablement, and Customer Success.
  • A history of improving sales productivity, forecast accuracy, conversion, win rates, or cycle time through better systems, coaching, and execution.
  • Executive presence, written and verbal communication, and customer-facing credibility.
  • Ability to simplify complex problems and demonstrate a bias for action, high standards, and intellectual honesty.
  • The applicant must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
Responsibilities
  • Own the Mid-Market business, including bookings, revenue, pipeline, forecast accuracy, productivity, and overall segment performance.
  • Define and execute a go-to-market strategy for acquiring mid-market customers, informed by fleet economics, buyer priorities, competitive dynamics, and Motive’s value proposition.
  • Build a repeatable, enterprise-light sales motion that improves funnel conversion, shortens cycle time, and creates a consistent customer experience from first conversation through close.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing organization of sales leaders and account executives; oversee hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and internal mobility.
  • Establish an operating cadence for pipeline generation, territory and capacity planning, inspection, deal strategy, forecast reviews, and post-quarter learning.
  • Partner with Sales Development, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Enablement, Finance, Product, Product Marketing, and Customer Success to improve pipeline quality, sales productivity, win rates, and customer outcomes.
  • Use data to identify the most important business constraints and focus resources on high-impact opportunities without adding unnecessary process or complexity.
  • Develop messaging, discovery frameworks, qualification standards, sales plays, and manager routines that connect Motive’s platform to measurable customer outcomes.
  • Serve as an executive sponsor for strategic prospects and customers, helping navigate complex buying groups, business cases, procurement, and competitive situations.
  • Translate market feedback and field insights into recommendations for product, marketing, pricing, packaging, and broader go-to-market strategy.
  • Build a customer-obsessed, accountable, inclusive, commercially sharp culture committed to continuous improvement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience selling SaaS, technology, hardware-enabled software, telematics, logistics, or solutions to operationally complex businesses.

About the company

Motive creates software and tools designed to improve safety, productivity and profitability for businesses that drive the physical economy. Its customers include more than 120,000 companies across industries such as construction, field service, agriculture, trucking and logistics, and delivery. The product line focuses on helping these businesses run more efficiently by coordinating operations and people, with an emphasis on delivering user-friendly solutions that customers love. Motive differentiates itself through its broad industry reach, a strong commitment to customer satisfaction, and a culture that supports employees in doing their best work. The company’s goal is to empower millions of physical economy businesses to operate more safely and efficiently while growing their profitability.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Venture Capital)

Total Funding

$1.9B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • ARR crossed $600 million on September 10, 2026, with 30% year-over-year growth.
  • AI Coach, Maintenance, and Analytics expand upsell paths across UK, Mexico, and North America.
  • Thomas Hansen's go-to-market hire targets faster enterprise expansion after the General Catalyst round.

What critics are saying

  • Samsara won $30.3 million in February 2026, proving Motive's marketing claims created liability.
  • Motive withdrew its S-1 on September 10, 2026, delaying public-market discipline indefinitely.
  • Samsara's patent and trade-secret fight continues, risking injunctions, discovery costs, and customer churn.

What makes Motive unique

  • Motive controls safety, maintenance, and telematics data inside one platform for 120,000 businesses.
  • General Catalyst’s September 10, 2026 financing validates Motive’s private-market scale and ambition.
  • Holman integration and first-mover AI launches deepen workflow lock-in across fleets.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

3%

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Yahoo Finance
Oct 12th, 2026
Motive hires Andrew Bennett as chief marketing officer after passing $600M in ARR

Motive, an AI platform for physical operations, has appointed Andrew Bennett as chief marketing officer. He will lead global marketing, including brand, demand generation, communications, and product marketing, and join the executive leadership team. The move follows the company's strongest quarter, with annual recurring revenue (ARR) passing $600 million and ARR growth accelerating to 30% year-over-year. In September, Motive secured more than $1.3 billion in growth financing from General Catalyst. Bennett has more than two decades of marketing and sales experience. He joins from Elementum, where he was chief marketing officer, and previously held the same role at Conga. He also spent a decade at Smartsheet.

FreightWaves
Sep 10th, 2026
Motive raises $1.3B from General Catalyst, withdraws IPO filing as ARR hits $600M

Motive has secured more than $1.3 billion in growth financing from General Catalyst and withdrawn its previously filed S-1. The San Francisco-based company reported annual recurring revenue crossed $600 million, with ARR growth accelerating to 30% year over year. ARR from customers spending more than $100,000 grew nearly 60% year over year. Net revenue retention for these customers exceeded 120%. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers across trucking, construction, energy, and related industries. The capital will fund AI investment across the platform and expand sales, support, and service teams. Co-founder and CEO Shoaib Makani said the financing allows the company to remain private whilst maintaining the operational capacity for a future public listing. Motive has deployed AI-powered cameras in commercial vehicles since 2017 and recently launched Maintenance and Operations Intelligence products.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 19th, 2026
Motive launches AI-powered maintenance system to cut fleet downtime and repair costs

Motive has launched Motive Maintenance, an AI-powered system integrated into its platform to help organisations manage fleet maintenance workflows. The system unifies vehicle health data, repair workflows, and spending in one place, enabling teams to detect issues earlier and reduce downtime. According to Motive's research, 80% of fleet professionals cite rising maintenance and repair costs as their primary operational challenge. Organisations lose nearly nine days per vehicle annually to unplanned downtime, costing an estimated $448–760 per vehicle daily. The platform connects fault codes, inspections, maintenance workflows, and spend data in a single system. Only 13% of respondents reported well-integrated fleet management technology systems that share data automatically across platforms. Motive Maintenance aims to help organisations increase vehicle uptime and lower emergency repair costs.

Business Wire
Jun 10th, 2026
Motive launches AI Coach in UK with custom avatars for automated driver feedback

Motive has launched AI Coach in the UK, an AI-powered platform that automatically delivers personalised driver coaching through AI-generated videos. Managers can select preset avatars or create custom avatars replicating their own face and voice. The system addresses scaling challenges in driver coaching, particularly as UK organisations face rising insurance costs and regulatory scrutiny. Safety managers often spend less than one-third of their time on people management, making consistent coaching difficult. AI Coach detects unsafe driving behaviours with up to 99% accuracy and sends weekly personalised feedback videos through Motive's Dashboard and Driver App. The platform provides positive reinforcement and actionable improvement suggestions whilst reducing manual coaching time. Beeline's Operations Manager Adam Fox reported the system enabled feedback at previously impossible scales whilst reducing incident rates.

Business Wire
May 12th, 2026
Motive launches edge AI to detect driver fatigue and collisions in real-time

Motive, an AI platform for physical operations, has launched new edge AI capabilities for driver safety, including AI-powered Fatigue Detection, Eating Detection and Collision Detection. The features aim to detect unsafe driving behaviours early and capture low-severity collisions often missed by telematics alone. The Fatigue Detection system monitors six indicators including yawning, eye rubbing and microsleep to identify risk before collisions occur. The Eating Detection identifies high-risk distracted driving, whilst Collision Detection combines telematics with computer vision to capture incidents like sideswipes and fender benders. Motive's AI Dashcam has reportedly helped prevent over 170,000 accidents since 2023. Customers using the system reduced collisions by 80% and accident-related costs by 63% on average. The new capabilities are available on existing Motive AI dash cams with no additional hardware required.