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 more than 120,000 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.

About the Role:

As a Sales Engineering Manager, you will lead and guide a dynamic team of technical pre-sales professionals to enhance effectiveness, productivity, and drive revenue growth within the Sales Team. Reporting directly to the Director of Sales Engineering, you will be responsible for fostering a collaborative environment that thrives on excellent interpersonal communication skills, technical comprehension, product expertise, business acumen, and overall industry knowledge.

This is a hybrid role that requires coming into our Mexico City office 3 times a week with the ability to travel 50% to meet with customers. Candidates must currently live in Mexico.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead and mentor a team of Sales Engineers, collaborating closely with Account Executives for discovery calls, product demonstrations, POC support, and onsite meetings.
  • Oversee the delivery of customized demonstrations of the Motive product offering to prospects across various roles, ensuring alignment with customer needs and requirements.
  • Oversee and institute best practices for Motive’s Proof of Concept process.
  • Act as a subject matter expert on Motive's product offerings, both current and future roadmap, and guide your team to provide comprehensive insights to Account Executives working on displacement deals.
  • Drive the team's response to RFIs and RFPs, working in tandem with AEs to deliver compelling proposals.
  • Serve as a key sales liaison between multiple internal organizations, including Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Product Marketing, ensuring seamless collaboration and communication.
  • Strategically navigate Enterprise sales cycles, leveraging your expertise to contribute to successful deal closures.
  • Stay up-to-date on industry trends and competition, providing strategic guidance to the team and stakeholders.
  • Partner with Business Value Services to ensure the quantifiable value of Motive’s product offerings is represented in every deal.

What We're Looking For:

  • Proven leadership experience with a minimum of 5+ years in a managerial role within Strategic-level sales engineering or pre-sales.
  • Bachelor's Degree required, Bachelor’s of Science preferred, Master's a plus.
  • Previous experience leading/hiring a team and/or working in LATAM
  • Must have B2B SAAS experience
  • Understanding and/or training on value selling concepts, methodologies, or other related trainings (MEDDIC/MEDDPICC/Demo2Win/Command of the Message/etc).
  • Prior experience as an individual contributing Sales Engineer
  • Experience managing MM/Enterprise sales cycles (Transportation & Logistics industry is a plus).
  • Experience with integration projects
  • Experience with hardware, cloud software, IOT, and AI/ML a plus.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with a consistent track record of successfully selling complex solutions.
  • Strong communication skills, both in leading a team and in client interactions- proficiency in English

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. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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