Director, SMB Expansion Sales & Account Management

Motive; United States; On-site; USD 198,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Director of SMB Expansion Sales & Account Management to drive growth among its small and medium-sized customers. This leadership role involves managing a large team, enhancing customer engagement, reducing churn, and implementing strategic sales initiatives across various sectors including IT, logistics, and service industries.

Benefits

Health benefits

Paid time off

401k contribution

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Sales or Customer Success.
• 4+ years leading large Inside Sales teams.
• Proven track record of high-performance team management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of second-line managers overseeing multiple sub-teams.
• Partner with Marketing to innovate customer experiences and drive lead generation.
• Regularly report on metrics to identify strengths and areas for improvement.

Skills

Sales Leadership

Customer Success

Data Analysis

Talent Development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Job description

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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.

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 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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About The Role

Motive is seeking a Director of SMB Expansion Sales & Account Management to drive growth across our existing small and medium-sized customer base through outbound sales, while also reducing churn among escalated accounts at risk of cancellation or contraction. This senior leadership role will drive strategy and execution to boost customer engagement, increase upsell and cross-sell, and retain high-risk accounts.

You will lead a large, distributed sales organization through second-line leaders, fostering a high-performance culture focused on ambitious growth targets and customer success. We’re looking for a proven leader with a background in sales, customer success, and operations—someone who has scaled large teams and thrives in fast-cycle, high-volume environments. The ideal candidate brings strategic thinking, operational rigor, and a collaborative approach to cross-functional execution.

What You'll Do

• Leadership and Management: Lead a team of second-line managers overseeing an organization of 100+ HC across multiple sub-teams. Cultivate a high-performance environment that prioritizes accountability, continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction.
• Talent Development: Recruit, hire, train, and develop top talent, building a pipeline of future leaders within the organization. Demonstrable success in building and scaling sales teams from early stages and guiding transformational growth.
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner with Marketing leadership to innovate on customer experiences, drive lead generation, and experiment with pricing and acquisition strategies. Collaborate with Sales, Support, Onboarding, and Strategy leaders to design effective sales programs, reduce churn, resolve escalations faster, and build cohesive strategies that align global GTM functions for a seamless customer journey.
• Performance Analysis: Regularly report on key metrics to identify strengths and areas for improvement, using data-driven insights to guide decision-making. Lead the team with a disciplined, data-driven approach to continually assess business performance and achieve monthly and quarterly targets.
• Customer Engagement: Develop and implement strategies to drive customer engagement, increase upsell opportunities, and reduce churn. Rapidly test new ideas, leveraging data and insights to innovate and improve continuously.
• Process Optimization: Create and refine scalable processes to enhance team efficiency and overall performance. Act as an escalation point to help resolve issues, triage problems, and support account growth as needed.
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in Sales, Customer Success, or Sales Operations, including 4+ years leading large Inside Sales teams—preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Leadership: Proven track record of building and managing high-performing teams, with a focus on strategic and operational excellence.
• Analytical & Operational Rigor: Strong analytical, planning, and problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of sales metrics, performance standards, and methodologies. Comfortable working with large data sets to uncover insights, optimize processes, and drive data-informed decisions across sales and customer workflows.
• SMB Expertise at Scale: Deep understanding of SMB sales processes, with a proven track record of leading large, distributed teams. Experienced in navigating the unique challenges of managing at scale—across time zones, cultures, and performance levels—while driving consistency, efficiency, and results.
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to inspire and influence internal teams, cross-functional partners, and external customers.
• Must be located in USA or Canada
  
  

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.

Role

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the on-target earnings (base pay + commissions) are:

United States

$198,000—$301,000 USD

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, and Truck Transportation

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