Full-Time

Senior Demand Generation Specialist

Austin TX, San Francisco CA or Nashville TN, Hybrid

Updated on 9/9/2026

Motive

Motive

5,001-10,000 employees

Field operations safety and productivity software

Compensation Overview

$82k - $114k/yr

+ Restricted stock units

Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid

Two days in the office per week required; Austin is preferred, with San Francisco or Nashville also accepted.

Bachelor's

Category
Growth & Marketing (1)
Required Skills
Market Research
Tableau
Salesforce
Asana
Excel/Numbers/Sheets

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Requirements
  • At least 3 years of experience in B2B marketing, demand generation, integrated campaigns, or a related field, preferably in technology or SaaS.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with Salesforce, Asana, Sendoso or an equivalent tool, Outreach, Goldcast, and Glean.
  • Working knowledge of demand generation, account-based marketing frameworks, buyer personas, user journeys, funnel stages, and campaign channels.
  • Ability to review campaign and pipeline performance data using Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau, and Salesforce.
  • Ability to execute campaigns and assigned workstreams while managing timelines, dependencies, quality, multiple priorities, stakeholder communications, and risk escalation.
  • Ability to conduct account and market research and translate campaign and audience insights into practical recommendations.
  • Ability to communicate clearly across written, verbal, and presentation formats and create campaign briefs, status updates, program communications, and marketing resources.
  • Authorization to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
Responsibilities
  • Support net-new pipeline generation from new-logo accounts by executing full-funnel, multi-channel campaigns using account-based marketing as a core strategy.
  • Execute integrated account-based marketing programs for multiple sales segments.
  • Own selected account-based marketing programs and campaigns from brief creation through execution follow-up, including audience requirements, creative inputs, user acceptance testing, and stakeholder communication.
  • Partner with Content Marketing, Solutions Marketing, and Product Marketing to map content and messaging to buyer needs and funnel stages, identify gaps, and coordinate requests for new assets.
  • Partner with Marketing Operations and Analytics to support audience segmentation, list hygiene, campaign setup, routing, and accurate campaign reporting.
  • Launch, monitor, and improve campaigns and programs across email, LinkedIn, display, content syndication, web, webinars, direct mail, and future channels.
  • Own execution for select channels or activations, such as microsites, webinars, direct mail or gifting, and time-bound sales plays.
  • Ensure channel execution reflects approved campaign messaging, target-account priorities, and buyer journey stages.
  • Monitor channel activity and surface recommendations based on segment needs, buyer behavior, and campaign performance.
  • Contribute to quarterly planning by gathering inputs from Product Marketing, Marketing Operations, Channels, Events, Creative, Field, and other program partners.
  • Support webinar topic planning, direct-mail forecasting, asset planning, and creative briefing.
  • Track, communicate, and update campaign timelines and deliverables as priorities change.
  • Identify audience opportunities, relevant market signals, competitive insights, and timely campaign themes through account and market research.
  • Troubleshoot executional roadblocks independently and escalate broader risks with clear context and recommendations.
  • Improve campaign processes, documentation, handoffs, calendars, and marketing resources.
  • Contribute to strategic projects supporting demand-generation goals, marketing objectives and key results, and business growth.
Desired Qualifications
  • Salesforce experience is highly preferred.
  • Experience in technology or software as a service is preferred.

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

Series F

Total Funding

$567.3M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • Motive Maintenance launched August 18, 2026, reducing downtime and repair costs for fleets.
  • UK launches in April 2026 broaden Motive Analytics and AI Coach across Europe.
  • Motive says it serves nearly 100,000 customers, including Halliburton, Maersk, and KONE.

What critics are saying

  • Samsara won $30.3 million on February 3, 2026, for Motive marketing claims.
  • Samsara's 2024 trade-secret lawsuit targets Motive's hiring, website, and product cloning.
  • If Samsara wins remaining district-court claims, Motive faces injunction risk and slower enterprise sales.

What makes Motive unique

  • Motive unifies safety, maintenance, telematics, and payments for physical-operations teams.
  • Vision 26 on May 27, 2026 added Atlas, AI Omnicam Plus, and AI Dashcam Plus.
  • Holman named Motive its first telematics partner on March 11, 2026.

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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

1%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

0%
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.

Business Wire
May 11th, 2026
Motive appoints Thomas Hansen as president, go-to-market, to accelerate AI leadership and global scale

Motive, an AI platform for physical operations, has appointed Thomas Hansen as President, Go-To-Market in a newly created role. Hansen will lead sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships and revenue operations as the company scales globally. Hansen joins from Amplitude, where he built a global go-to-market organisation. He previously served as CRO at UiPath and COO at Carbon Black, and held senior roles at Dropbox and Microsoft. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers, including Fortune 500 companies like Halliburton and Maersk, across transportation, construction, energy and manufacturing sectors. The platform enables safety, operations and finance teams to manage workers, vehicles, equipment and fleet spending in a single system.

Business Wire
Apr 8th, 2026
Motive launches AI-powered analytics platform to turn fleet data into real-time insights in seconds

Motive has launched Motive Analytics, an AI-powered analytics solution for Mexican teams managing physical operations. The platform unifies data across safety, fuel, maintenance and telematics, automating reports and eliminating manual spreadsheet analysis. The solution includes AI Answers, a conversational AI that responds to natural language queries, instantly surfacing operational insights. Teams can ask questions like "Which drivers had the most idling time last week?" and receive immediate answers and visualisations. Commercial vehicle telematics adoption is surging in Mexico due to cross-border freight growth and evolving regulations, but many organisations struggle with disconnected legacy tools. Motive Analytics addresses this by providing real-time insights without requiring coding skills, helping teams reduce costs, improve safety and make faster decisions across fleet operations.