Full-Time

Lead – Safety and Compliance Strategy

Remote USA

Updated on 8/19/2026

Motive

Motive

5,001-10,000 employees

Field operations safety and productivity software

Compensation Overview

$135k - $170k/yr

+ Restricted stock units

Remote in USA

Remote

Remote within the USA, with travel of up to 60% for customer visits, conferences, and speaking engagements.

Category
Business & Strategy (2)
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Required Skills
Risk Management

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Requirements
  • 10+ years of successful experience within the fleet safety industry.
  • 5+ years of experience working with safety or fleet management telematics technology.
  • Experience in one or more transportation segments, including waste, oil and gas, trucking, services, transit, or federal or state government.
  • A record of successfully developing and implementing risk, safety, and prevention programs that reduce risk, injuries, and overall cost.
  • Working knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
  • Experience in safety program development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Strong consultative and coaching abilities within organizations.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to influence.
  • Authorization to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
Responsibilities
  • Provide internal and external thought leadership in the safety and compliance arena.
  • Provide context to enhance risk, safety, and compliance strategies.
  • Enable internal Sales teams on the value customers seek through enhanced safety and compliance.
  • Influence the productization of value-added Professional Services.
  • Build brand awareness by attending conferences, writing white papers and articles, and participating in speaking engagements.
  • Share best practices from other enterprise telematics providers.
  • Identify key target prospects within prioritized verticals.
  • Develop growth strategy recommendations leveraging key accounts.
  • Help guide a product development roadmap aligned with the growth strategy.
  • Collaborate with the Sales Development team to incorporate safety best-practice considerations into sales initiatives.
  • Support and guide responses to safety and compliance-related inquiries from potential clients.
  • Assist in developing sales collateral and proposals highlighting the organization's commitment to safety.
  • Collaborate with the Professional Services team to integrate safety and compliance best practices into client engagements and provide value-added services during pre- and post-sales processes.
  • Conduct client discovery to identify opportunities to drive efficiency, reduce claims costs, and eliminate other pain points.
  • Develop and drive customized client onboarding plans covering driver communication, supervisor training, installation practices, and human capital implications.
  • Customize Motive programs and feature settings to maximize efficiency and reduce claims costs.
  • Provide standard communication tools and templates for program rollout.
  • Plan hardware installations to minimize operational impact.
  • Train users of the Motive system.
  • Scope key performance indicators and business intelligence needs.
  • Improve Motive brand awareness through speaking engagements, Safety Leader Bootcamps, podcasts, articles, and other thought-leadership channels.
  • Broaden Motive's involvement in relevant trade associations.
  • Represent Motive at meetings of the American Trucking Associations, Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Canadian Trucking Alliance, National Private Truck Council, and other state and national associations.
  • Support regulatory and legislative advocacy on matters of interest to Motive.

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

1%

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.