Who we are:
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves more than 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
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As a senior Engineering Manager for Quality Assurance, you will lead a group of talented QA teams by managing and developing their respective QA Managers. You'll be a leader of leaders, responsible for the overall quality, strategy, and execution within your product domain. This role requires a strong ability to scale quality practices, mentor other leaders, and drive technical and operational excellence. You will be instrumental in fostering a culture where quality is a shared responsibility, ensuring the delivery of reliable, high-performing products.
What You'll Do:- Organizational Leadership: Lead a multi-team Quality Assurance organization. Manage, mentor, and develop a team of first-line QA Managers, guiding them to become exceptional leaders.
- Strategic Execution: Define and drive the quality assurance strategy and roadmap for your group. Align your teams' goals and technical direction with broader business and product objectives.
- Scale and Process: Drive the execution of quality initiatives across multiple teams. Develop and implement scalable processes, frameworks, and tooling to improve engineering velocity and product quality.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner effectively with peer leaders and stakeholders in Engineering, Product, and Design to influence product roadmaps and ensure quality is a foundational component of the development lifecycle.
- Operational Excellence: Own the operational health of your QA organization. Establish and monitor key quality metrics, guide your teams through planning and execution, and drive continuous improvement to enhance efficiency.
- Technical Mentorship: Foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation. Provide technical guidance to your managers and teams on best practices in test automation, performance engineering, and modern QA methodologies.
What We're Looking For:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 4 years in a leadership role.
- Crucially, a minimum of 2-3 years of direct experience managing other managers or team leads.
- Demonstrated ability to set a technical vision and strategy for a group of engineering teams.
- Proven track record of scaling teams and processes in a fast-paced environment.
- Deep knowledge of modern QA methodologies, test automation strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners and stakeholders.
- Agile Expertise: Well-versed and experienced in running projects using Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
- Strong experience with organizational planning and developing the careers of both managers and individual contributors.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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