Full-Time

Regional Director

Posted on 11/15/2025

Motive

Motive

5,001-10,000 employees

Field operations safety and productivity software

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Great Lakes region preferred; US-based.

Category
Sales & Account Management (2)
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Required Skills
Sales
Salesforce
Requirements
  • 3+ years experience directly managing SaaS sales teams at the Enterprise level
  • History of exceeding sales targets with Enterprise-level clients
  • Ability to lead and motivate others to action, including best-in-class customer skills communication, empathy, and integrity
  • A people-based mindset, with a passion for coaching and developing sales talent at all levels and a history of developing great sales cultures
  • Examples of bringing a great sense of rigor, executions and accountability to your team’s day-to-day processes
  • Ability to collaborate with internal cross-functional partners across Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal and Sales Ops
  • Experience with Salesforce or other CRM and sales technologies and best practices enabling your team to forecast, manage their pipeline and accelerate wins
  • Lead with curiosity and example by attending sales calls to help team manage and close deals
  • Highly preferred that you live in the Great Lakes, United States - in the same region as the team
Responsibilities
  • Lead a world-class team of Enterprise Account Executives that you’ll partner with on prospecting strategy, account planning, pipeline reviews, achieving revenue targets
  • Develop and execute on strategic account and territory plans for your team to meet or exceed ACV targets over monthly, quarterly, and annual periods
  • Track progress and success of your Account Executives against various primary KPIs, coaching and enabling their success across short and long-term goals
  • Cultivate a culture of high-performance and accountability through best-in-class hiring
  • Partner with our Sales Enablement team ad-hoc and on more formal Account Executive training and coaching programs to ensure consistency and effectiveness across the organization
  • Excellence in listening, sales process and passionate about the art of selling
  • Collaborate with your Account Executives and directly engage high-priority client prospects to help sell the value of Motive
  • Ensure use of CRM and other operational tools, processes, and best practices in pipeline planning, forecasting, and sales execution

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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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Fleet telematics market grows from $10.42B in 2025 to $21.95B by 2032 amid regulatory surges.
  • Holman integration shares real-time vehicle data to cut fleet downtime and operating costs.
  • $150M Kleiner Perkins funding accelerates AI expansion and global go-to-market scaling.

What critics are saying

  • Samsara's $30.3M May 2026 arbitration win imposes injunctions, damaging Motive's marketing.
  • Samsara sustains patent litigation, draining Motive's budget during 2026 IPO scaling.
  • Holman aggregates Motive data, building proprietary analytics to disintermediate Motive by 2029.

What makes Motive unique

  • Motive Analytics unifies safety, fuel, maintenance, and telematics data with AI Answers for natural language queries.
  • Motive Beacon uses mesh network via Bluetooth gateways for high-frequency small equipment tracking.
  • Motive Workforce automates UK DVSA driver compliance with walkaround checks and qualification management.

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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

2%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
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.

Business Wire
Apr 8th, 2026
Motive launches AI analytics platform for UK fleets, turning hours of data analysis into real-time insights

Motive has launched Motive Analytics, an AI-powered analytics solution that unifies data across safety, fuel, maintenance and telematics for UK teams. The platform, built into the Motive Dashboard, automates reporting and centralises operational information to enable faster decision-making. The solution includes AI Answers, a conversational AI that responds to natural language queries such as "Which drivers had the most idling time last week?" Users receive instant answers and visualisations without requiring coding skills or data analytics teams. Motive Analytics addresses challenges UK organisations face with disconnected legacy tools and outdated spreadsheets. The platform provides real-time dashboards, custom reports and executive-ready reporting that links operational data to financial impact. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers globally, including Fortune 500 enterprises across transport, logistics, construction, energy and manufacturing sectors.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 16th, 2026
Samsara wins $30M over Motive's marketing claims; Motive beats patent case

Samsara has been awarded $30.3 million in damages from a favourable arbitration ruling against rival Motive over false advertising claims. The dispute centred on Motive's marketing of a 2023 Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study comparing AI dashcam performance, which Motive referenced in promotional materials and its December 2025 S-1 filing. The arbitrator issued a permanent injunction and damages related to the benchmarking studies. Motive, which has discontinued using the studies, told employees no admission of liability occurred. Separately, Motive won an International Trade Commission patent case where Samsara had sought exclusion orders on AI dashcams and gateways. An administrative law judge found no violation after a March 2025 hearing. The legal battles highlight intense competition in the fleet telematics market, valued at $10.42 billion in 2025 and projected to reach $21.95 billion by 2032.

Business Wire
Mar 11th, 2026
Motive joins Holman's telematics integration network to reduce fleet downtime and costs

Motive has become the first telematics partner to join Holman's new Telematics Preferred Integration Network programme. The integration connects Motive's real-time vehicle and driver data with Holman's fleet management platform to help organisations reduce downtime and operating costs. The partnership enables Motive customers to access critical vehicle data—including location, odometer readings, engine hours, fault codes and maintenance alerts—directly within Holman's system. The integration triggers service alerts based on mileage, engine hours and diagnostic codes, whilst monitoring fuel usage and idling to reduce costs. Safety insights covering speeding, hard braking and distracted driving events integrate with Holman's safety tools to help fleet managers identify high-risk drivers earlier. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises across transportation, logistics, construction and manufacturing sectors.

Business Wire
Feb 26th, 2026
Motive launches Beacon to track billions in equipment with mesh network technology

Motive has launched Motive Beacon, a compact tracking device designed to help operations teams locate containers and small equipment. The device is valued at $1.45 billion following a $120 million Series C funding round. Beacon operates through Motive's Mesh Network, which uses Bluetooth-enabled Vehicle Gateways and mobile apps to detect and report asset locations. The system addresses a significant industry challenge, as the average US warehouse wastes nearly seven weeks annually searching for misplaced items. The device targets industries including construction, logistics, utilities and field services. It offers high-frequency tracking updates, historical reporting for asset utilisation analysis, and geofencing alerts. With a four-year battery life and waterproof design, Beacon integrates into Motive's existing fleet management platform. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers including Halliburton, KONE and Maersk.

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