Business Operations Manager

Motive; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is seeking a senior Business Operations leader to shape go-to-market strategy and drive cross-functional initiatives across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. You will build data-driven models, dashboards, and AI-enabled processes to improve scalability and efficiency in a rapidly growing SaaS environment.

The role demands strong communication, executive presence, and proven leadership across ambiguous, fast-paced settings with tight timelines.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in consulting, banking, private equity, or Strategy & Operations, plus SaaS in-house experience.
• Hypergrowth SaaS experience and a recent Bachelor's degree required; MBA is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop go-to-market strategies by analyzing trends, segmentation, and competition.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives across Sales, Marketing, and CS for growth.
• Build analytical models and dashboards to measure GTM and product performance.
• Identify efficiencies and leverage AI to scale operations and drive results.

Skills

Executive presence

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

SQL proficiency

Data modeling

AI tools

Presentation skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

SQL

Job description

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 nearly 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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

Business Operations at Motive is a highly cross-functional group that is responsible for developing our go-to-market strategy, improving go-to-market efficiency, and ensuring that we are hitting our growth targets. Our team is maniacal about and energized by the challenge of getting our hands dirty in any problem across Sales, Marketing, or Customer Success, and finding ways to help us scale more efficiently. We are a low-ego, highly-motivated group that collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and execution. Examples of major strategic initiatives Business Operations takes on are optimizing the structure of our sales force, experimenting with new sales and marketing motions, and determining how we can leverage AI to improve operations.

What You'll Do:

• Develop go-to-market strategies

  by analyzing market trends, customer segmentation, and Motive’s competitive landscape. Collaborate with senior leaders to prioritize high-growth opportunities and drive strategic execution, ensuring alignment across all go-to-market functions.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives

  that connect the dots across different functions and stakeholders. You will be the driving force behind high-impact, high-visibility strategic initiatives that are critical to scaling our business by facilitating communication and collaboration between departments to ensure alignment and effective execution.

• Create robust analytical models

  and dashboards to provide actionable insights into go-to-market and product performance. You will take a hands-on approach to proactively identify trends, opportunities, and risks, translating data into clear recommendations for optimizing commercial results- leveraging AI throughout the process to drive scale and efficiency.

• Champion operational efficiency

  by continuously identifying and addressing process inefficiencies - you never stop asking “can we be doing this better?” Design and implement innovative solutions to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and drive a culture of continuous improvement across the organization.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in consulting, banking, private equity, or Strategy & Operations, combined with in-house at a SaaS company
• Recent experience at a hypergrowth and rapidly scaling SaaS company
• Recent Bachelor's degree required; MBA is a plus
• Advanced communication, presentation, and organization skills
• Executive presence and comfort communicating with the C-suite
• Exceptional spreadsheet / data management skills, SQL proficiency preferred
• Expert with Google Sheets & Excel, with the ability to build data models
• Proficient in AI tools and comfortable leveraging AI to maximize effectiveness of daily work
• Intellectual curiosity supported by exceptional analytical skill
• Strong, demonstrated leadership capabilities
• Experience working on cross-functional projects with various stakeholders and a demonstrated expertise in managing such projects
• Able to work in ambiguous, fast paced, environments under tight and unpredictable timelines

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