Director, Developer Platform & Experience

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.

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We are hiring a Director of Developer Platform & Experience to own that execution and the platform underneath it. This role owns Motive's internal developer ecosystem end to end: developer experience, developer infrastructure, build and CI/CD systems, and the testing frameworks that let hundreds of engineers move quickly without breaking things. It also owns AI-DLC in practice — the tooling, cloud agent infrastructure, evaluation practice, and governance that determine whether agentic development actually makes us faster or just makes us noisier.

Our engineering organization spans North America, Europe, and Asia, across a Rails monolith, Go services, mobile, and embedded systems. How fast and how confidently that organization ships is one of our most important business levers.

This is a builder's leadership role, not a strategy role. You will inherit real systems and real teams, and be measured on whether engineers at Motive ship faster, with higher confidence, and with less friction than they did the quarter before.

Most AI coding adoption stops at the laptop — one engineer, one agent, one local checkout. That ceiling is low, and moving past it is the signature technical challenge of this role.

You will build the infrastructure that runs agentic development in the cloud: ephemera ls, reproducible, isolated environments where many agents work concurrently on real Motive codebases, run real tests against real dependencies, and open real pull requests — without an engineer babysitting a terminal, and without compromising security or blowing up spend.

This is a hard distributed-systems and platform problem, not a tooling procurement exercise. Done right, engineers stop being throughput-bound by their own machines and start operating as reviewers and directors of parallel work. We want a leader who finds that problem exciting and has the platform depth to solve it.

AI-driven development lifecycle (AI-DLC)

• Translate Motive's AI-driven development direction into an executable multi-year plan — how agents plan, generate, test, review, and operate under human direction, what "human in the loop" means at each stage, and where engineers spend their time as a result.
• Evaluate, select, and roll out AI developer tools (coding agents, code review, test generation, incident investigation, documentation) and build the internal scaffolding — context, MCP servers, evals, guardrails — that makes them effective on Motive's actual codebases rather than on a demo repo.
• Stand up a rigorous LLM and agent evaluation practice: benchmarks, offline and…