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Motive

Field operations safety and productivity software

Manager – Technical Account Management - Enterprise

Customer SupportUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of directly managing technical teams in a fast-paced, high-volume support environment.
  • Demonstrated experience managing escalations and incidents, partnering closely with Product and Engineering, and presenting to senior stakeholders in business reviews, incident reviews, and program updates.
  • A proven track record of building, coaching, and retaining high-performing technical teams.
  • Ability to give direct feedback, manage performance, and build a strong bench of senior individual contributors and future leaders.
  • Strong command of support metrics and how to improve them.
  • Ability to build and interpret dashboards using Salesforce, Tableau, and Google Sheets to communicate findings and drive decisions.
  • Experience improving support ticketing systems, tools, and processes.
  • Ability to explain complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences verbally and in writing.
  • Genuine interest in investigating technical problems, understanding root causes, and working with Engineering to improve reliability and supportability.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams with curiosity and accountability, emphasizing process improvement over fault-finding.
  • Ability to connect customer symptoms to underlying product, data, and workflow issues.
  • Excellent time management and prioritization, including handling multiple high-priority tasks.
  • Flexibility to handle critical cases after hours as needed, including on-call and incident response.
  • A track record of leading change and improving on the status quo.
  • The applicant must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Own performance, staffing, and scheduling for assigned pods to ensure coverage, readiness, and consistent delivery against agreed service-level agreements and key performance indicators.
  • Provide day-to-day leadership and coaching, including regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, development plans, and ongoing feedback.
  • Set and cascade quarterly team goals aligned with Technical Support and company objectives, run regular reviews, and course-correct using data.
  • Partner with Workforce Management, Recruiting, and Enablement to hire, onboard, and ramp new team members so they become effective within their first 30–60 days.
  • Own escalations for high-priority and strategic customer cases, leading triage, staffing, swarms, and communications through resolution.
  • Participate in and help run the Technical Support Manager on-call rotation, act as incident manager during off-hours for P0/P1 events, and drive post-incident reviews and follow-ups.
  • Advocate for customers in internal forums, communicate customer impact, protect annual recurring revenue at risk, and minimize churn through proactive communication and follow-through.
  • Monitor queue health and backlog across assigned segments, intervene on aging or at-risk cases, and rebalance work to protect service-level agreements and customer outcomes.
  • Build, implement, and continuously improve standard operating procedures, workflows, and internal processes, including case routing, escalation criteria, TSSD/Jira usage, and incident playbooks.
  • Partner with Support Operations and Backline to identify and monitor bugs, product gaps, training needs, and process friction, and turn trends into action plans.
  • Set expectations and review mechanisms for knowledge creation and quality, including knowledge bases, internal documentation, and runbooks, so learnings from escalations and incidents are documented and reused.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to resolve core product issues, influence roadmaps, and close the customer feedback loop with research and development.
  • Represent Technical Support in cross-functional reviews with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales, communicating problem statements, impact, and required actions.
  • Own weekly and monthly business reviews for the assigned area, build and interpret dashboards, report on customer satisfaction, first contact resolution, service-level agreements, backlog, and escalations, and present insights, risks, and remediation plans to Support leadership.
  • Partner with Support Operations to design and refine reporting using Salesforce, Tableau, and other business intelligence tools to drive decisions and track initiative impact.
  • Lead strategic projects that improve supportability, efficiency, and customer experience.
  • Design and roll out new workflows and tools, secure team buy-in, manage friction, and ensure changes are adopted.
  • Identify opportunities to improve tools, training, and processes and translate them into scoped projects with owners, timelines, and success metrics.
  • Serve as the directly responsible individual for cross-functional initiatives, aligning Support, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales on scope, timelines, and outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce Service Cloud, including case management, reports, and dashboards, and Tableau or similar business intelligence tools.
  • Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and knowledge management practices.
  • Comfort using GSuite or Microsoft Office for reporting, documentation, and presentations.
  • Experience in data analytics, such as analyzing support data to identify trends, trial outcomes, or at-risk cohorts.
  • Prior experience in IoT, telematics, fleet management, or similar domains.

About the Company

Motive

Field operations safety and productivity software

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, CA
Founded
2013

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