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Director/Senior Director, Electrical Engineering Hybrid - San Francisco, Califor

Motive do, San Francisco, CA, United States


Director/Senior Director, Electrical Engineering 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.

What You’ll Do:

Manage the Electrical Engineering team, including system generalist engineers and SMEs: RF, camera, power

Be a key leader for all NPI projects, ensuring the team is designing to a high standard, solving problems effectively, and that our devices are capable of achieving performance targets.

Critical partner to the TPM and Embedded software teams

Author and implement process improvements as we improve how we design, validate, and qualify our products and partners

Influence product roadmap by offering innovative technology options and by highlighting major risks.

What We’re Looking For:

10+ years of experience as a hardware engineering leader, OEM, ODM, JDM all valuable

Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Experience managing teams of engineers and being responsible for multiple projects concurrently

Experience with board bring up, power supply and signal integrity testing as well as debug and root cause analysis

Experience with various interfaces such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, DDR, eMMC, NAND flash etc.

Experience with Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, 4G/5G, cameras, batteries, and other peripherals

Additional Competencies for Sr. Director of Hardware Engineering:

15+ years of experience as a cross-functional engineering leader

Experience managing the full engineering lifecycle for Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Reliability, Quality, Sustaining teams

Able to define electromechanical architecture as well as vendor selection criteria

Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility

This role is not fully remote. It requires 2 days per week in our San Francisco, CA office.

Compensation United States

$263,000 - $329,000 USD

EEO Statement 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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