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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 120,000 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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The Safety team is a cross-functional group that builds products to help fleets prevent accidents, improve unsafe driving habits, exonerate drivers, and reduce insurance costs through a combination of AI-enabled hardware, robust software tools, and automated coaching. We’re seeking a Staff Product Designer to collaborate with our cross-functional technology and operations team. You’ll identify and understand customer problems and translate them into innovative and impactful solutions across our ecosystem of products and apps. You will drive design and create innovative safety experiences for both our long-haul trucking and local commercial clients and integrate into our existing suite of fleet management features.
Staff Designers sit at the pinnacle of the individual contributor path, tasked with working on the most intractable design problems. You will establish a high bar for quality and execution through effective design thinking, process, craft, and mentorship. You will establish, evolve, and evangelize the next generation of our design system across multiple product surfaces. And finally, you will partner with and mentor designers to elevate the output of the overall team.
What You’ll Do:- Shape strategy and direction for the highest priority product investments
- Connect-the-dots across disparate product areas to uncover patterns and opportunities
- Think in terms of broad platform and systems strategy rather than siloed features
- Establish a high bar for design quality across the company that aligns with our brand
- Understand customer and business problems through research and data
- Own design problems end to end, from initial concept through execution and beyond
- Build alignment and articulate vision through strong storytelling and presentations skills
- Become a key thought partner to your counterparts in product, engineering, and ops
- Partner with engineering to develop and deploy a componentized design system
- Mentor other designers and contribute to the overall design culture of the company
- 8+ years of experience in User Experience, Interaction and Interface design
- Experience leading complex web and mobile projects with a cross-functional team
- Ability to generate detailed design concepts, documentation, and prototypes
- A design portfolio that showcases proficient design skills, product thinking, and problem-solving
- Experience working with or creating design systems and frameworks
- Demonstrate excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Ability to be comfortable with and navigate an industry undergoing disruption
- Unbounded curiosity and sense of adventure
Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:
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