Regional Vice President, Strategic Sales (Central/Mountain)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive, a leading provider of software for physical economy operations, seeks a Regional Vice President, Strategic Sales to lead a team of Strategic Account Executives across North America. You will drive prospecting strategy, account planning, and pipeline management to close Motive’s largest opportunities.

This role emphasizes coaching, enablement, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience directly managing SaaS sales teams at the Strategic level.
• History of exceeding sales targets with Strategic-level clients.
• Ability to lead and motivate others to action with strong communication and integrity.
• Experience coaching and developing sales talent and building great sales cultures.
• Ability to implement rigorous processes and accountability in daily work.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners (Sales Dev, SE, Product, Marketing, CS, Legal, Sales Ops).
• Experience with CRM and sales technologies to forecast and accelerate wins.
• Lead by example on sales calls to help team close deals.
• Public preference for Central/Mountain time zone is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a world-class team of Account Executives and guide prospecting, account planning, and pipeline reviews.
• Develop and execute strategic account and territory plans to meet or exceed ACV targets.
• Track KPI progress and coach teams toward short and long-term goals.
• Foster high-performance culture and accountability through strong hiring.
• Partner with Sales Enablement for training and consistency.
• Maintain excellence in listening, process discipline, and sales execution.
• Collaborate with executive prospects to demonstrate Motive’s value.
• Ensure CRM and tools are used effectively for forecasting and pipeline management.

Skills

SaaS sales leadership

Strategic accounts

Sales forecasting

Team coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

CRM proficiency

Communication & empathy

Sales enablement collaboration

People leadership

Tools

Salesforce

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.

Regional Vice President, Strategic Sales

Who we are:

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. Motive combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to connect and automate physical operations. Motive is one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world, serving more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

Motive is built on four foundational attributes; Own It, Less but Better, Build Trust, and Unlock Potential. This has taken our company to great heights, including being recognized by Fortune for Best Workplaces, Forbes Best Startup Employers, and Comparably for our Best Global Culture, Sales Team, Leadership Team, Career Growth, and CEO for Diversity. We’re proud to receive an employee net promoter score of 63 (according to Comparably) which places Motive in the top 5% of companies with 4,000 employees or more.

Today, our team is made up of more than 5,000 employees, located across the world, providing support to a wide range of customers. While most of our employees are remote, many have the opportunity to work on-site at any of our 8 global office locations. Visit our careers website to learn more about opportunities at Motive.

About the Role:

As a Regional Vice President, Strategic Sales at Motive, you will be a key leader in our fastest growing segment at Motive. Our RVPs manage a team of Strategic Account Executives and guide them in both engaging and closing Motive’s largest prospects. You’ll lead initiatives across hiring, coaching, and enablement to support Motive’s growth & success. Your team will sell into the most impactful companies in North America that power the physical economy.

We are seizing the opportunity created by our strong product positioning in the market by heavily investing across all Go-To-Market (GTM) teams within our Enterprise segment. You will lead the charge, selling the value of our products and the business outcomes that can be achieved for our customers in partnership with Motive.

Our Strategic Sales team sells consistently into Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries, including trucking, oil & gas, construction, agriculture, manufacturing, consumer transit, or any other business that requires a fleet of vehicles. Because of the collaborative nature of our Go-to-Market team, a win-as-a-team mentality is a must. In this high-energy role, you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with high standards of quality.

What You'll Do:

• Lead a world-class team of seasoned Account Executives that you’ll partner with on prospecting strategy, account planning, pipeline reviews, achieving revenue targets
• Develop and execute on strategic account and territory plans for your team to meet or exceed ACV targets over monthly, quarterly, and annual periods
• Track progress and success of your Account Executives against various primary KPIs, coaching and enabling their success across short and long-term goals
• Cultivate a culture of high-performance and accountability through best-in-class hiring
• Partner with our Sales Enablement team ad-hoc and on more formal Account Executive training and coaching programs to ensure consistency and effectiveness across the organization
• Excellence in listening, sales process and passionate about the art of selling
• Collaborate with your Account Executives and directly engage high-priority client prospects to help sell the value of Motive
• Ensure use of CRM and other operational tools, processes, and best practices in pipeline planning, forecasting, and sales execution

What We're Looking For:

• 2+ years experience directly managing SaaS sales teams at the Strategic level
• History of exceeding sales targets with Strategic-level clients
• Ability to lead and motivate others to action, including best-in-class customer skills communication, empathy, and integrity
• A people-based mindset, with a passion for coaching and developing sales talent at all levels and a history of developing great sales cultures
• Examples of bringing a great sense of rigor, executions and accountability to your team’s day-to-day processes
• Ability to collaborate with internal cross-functional partners across Sales Development, Sales Engineering, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Legal and Sales Ops
• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM and sales technologies and best practices enabling your team to forecast, manage their pipeline and accelerate wins
• Lead with curiosity and example by attending sales calls to help team manage and close deals
• Highly preferred that you live in the Central or Mountain timezone

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