VP, SMB Sales & Account Management - Austin

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.

Motive is looking for an exceptional, operational, and data-driven Vice President, SMB to lead our high-volume inside sales and account management organization. Managing a book of business across SMB customers, this leader will oversee a global organization of New Logo reps and Account Managers primarily based in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan, managed through US-based Director-level leadership in Austin.

This is a transformative, high-impact mandate. We are seeking a forward-thinking executive to drive our digital transformation, blending human talent with AI-driven workflows, product-led growth (PLG) triggers, and automated customer lifecycle orchestration. You will modernize our GTM engine, stabilize controllable churn, elevate multi-product cross-sell attach rates, and turn our SMB motion into a world-class model of operational efficiency.

• Drive Digital Transformation & AI Integration: Modernize a large-scale, human-heavy GTM operation by identifying repetitive tasks and embedding AI automation, self-service tools, and tech-touch workflows across the customer journey.
• Lead a Global, Distributed Team: Oversee an inside sales and account management organization. Partner with US-based Directors in Austin to maintain high operational rigor, performance management, coaching, and alignment across frontline offshore teams.
• Master Churn Analytics & Forecasting: Deep-dive into aggregate customer data across SMB accounts to separate controllable churn (onboarding friction, billing issues, product gaps) from uncontrollable market attrition, implementing actionable levers to maximize retention.
• Automate Customer Lifecycle Touchpoints: Partner closely with Lifecycle Marketing and Product teams to establish usage-based automated triggers that anticipate customer needs, drive proactive interventions, and improve customer health scores.
• Expand Core Customer ACV & Cross-Sell: Build and scale repeatable playbooks to attach 3rd and 4th products (such as AI Dashcam Plus and telematics safety suites) to raise average deal values and scale core customer accounts.
• Fix & Proactively Manage Renewals: Overhaul auto-renewal and billing processes to eliminate customer friction, improve trust, and resolve public sentiment issues on platforms like G2 and Trustpilot.
• Explore Base Monetization & Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate with Business Development to explore innovative monetization strategies across our customer base (e.g., embedded commercial insurance partnerships).

• Proven Large-Scale Leadership: 10+ years of progressive sales, account management, or post-sales leadership experience, with a track record of managing distributed, high-headcount inside orgs (hundreds of team members across global/offshore hubs like Lat Am, India, Philippines, or Pakistan).
• AI & Automation Mindset: Strong expertise in leveraging AI, tech-touch automation, and product telemetry to streamline high-volume operations. Experience transforming or scaling down…