Remote Senior Analyst: Profitability & COGS Strategy

Motive; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work culture

Equity & benefits

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Senior Analyst for the Strategic Analytics team to own end-to-end profitability work across hardware and software products. You will deliver analytical POVs to the CPO, CTO, and senior leadership and translate executive questions into clear analyses.

This is an individual contributor role with a clear path to team leadership, focusing on COGS, gross margin, and cost drivers while collaborating with data engineering, finance, and product teams to influence strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in analytics, strategic finance, or related field with modeling experience.
• Expert-level SQL: write complex queries independently.
• Deep understanding of unit economics: gross margin, contribution margin, COGS structures.
• Ability to independently frame and decompose ambiguous business problems.
• Strong executive communication skills with VP or C-suite stakeholders.
• High autonomy and self-sufficiency in fast-moving environments.
• Experience working in messy data environments with ground-up definitions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end COGS and gross margin analysis for Motive’s hardware and software product lines - including vehicle gateways, dashcams, and a growing suite of software products
• Model cost-saving opportunities, build scenario analyses, and deliver recommendations on profitability levers directly to the CPO, CTO, and finance leadership
• Take ambiguous, high-stakes business questions from senior stakeholders - structure them, build the analysis, and walk into executive conversations with a clear point of view
• Partner closely with data engineering, finance, and product teams to understand cost drivers, surface insights, and influence roadmap and investment decisions
• Navigate messy, complex data environments - establish ground truth, build reliable datasets, and create durable analytical frameworks the broader team can build on
• Contribute to the operational rigor of the SA team: documentation, version control practices, and analytical best practices
• Operate with minimal supervision - you own your domain, manage your own priorities, and push work forward without waiting to be told what to do next

Skills

7+ years in analytics

SQL

unit economics

frame & decompose problems

executive communication

autonomy

messy data environments

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Motive is seeking a Senior Analyst for the Strategic Analytics team to own end-to-end profitability work across hardware and software products. You will deliver analytical POVs to the CPO, CTO, and senior leadership and translate executive questions into clear analyses.

This is an individual contributor role with a clear path to team leadership, focusing on COGS, gross margin, and cost drivers while collaborating with data engineering, finance, and product teams to influence strategic decisions.