Senior Technical Program Manager at Motive

Job description

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. Visit gomotive.com to learn more. About the Role: Motive is seeking a Senior Security Technical Program Manager to drive execution of the Security & Privacy Roadmap and other high-priority security risk-reduction programs. You will turn complex security and privacy goals into sequenced, measurable plans; align Security, Product, Engineering, Privacy, Legal, and business partners; and make risks, dependencies, resourcing needs, and decisions visible to executives. You will play a central role in quarterly security planning and in preparing clear, evidence-based, board-ready updates.This role is well suited to a hands-on program leader who can move between technical detail and executive narrative—and who measures success by durable risk reduction and shipped outcomes, not activity alone. What You’ll Do: Own roadmap execution: Maintain the integrated Security & Privacy Roadmap from intake and prioritization through delivery and operational handoff. Clarify scope, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, decision points, and success measures across concurrent initiatives. Drive risk-reduction programs: Lead cross-functional execution of major security programs, which may include identity and access management, authorization, vulnerability remediation, auditability, data protection and retention, privacy controls, and security assurance. Keep work tied to explicit risks and customer or business outcomes. Lead quarterly planning: Coordinate planning inputs, capacity and sequencing discussions, prioritization trade-offs, and commitments. Surface gaps early, distinguish committed work from aspirational work, and bring options and recommendations to decision-makers. Establish operating rigor: Run effective program reviews and maintain concise plans, RAID logs, decision records, and dashboards. Track leading indicators and delivery milestones; escalate blockers with clear impact, owner, and recommended next step. Prepare executive and board materials: Develop accurate, board-ready narratives and presentations that explain the risk, why it matters, progress against commitments, measurable outcomes, material changes, and decisions or investments required. Validate claims and metrics with accountable teams. Build strong partnerships: Align technical and nontechnical stakeholders, facilitate decisions when priorities conflict, and communicate with clarity at levels ranging from engineers to senior executives. Improve the system: Identify recurring delivery, governance, or measurement gaps and improve the security program operating model so teams can execute predictably and demonstrate control effectiveness. What We’re Looking For: 7+ years of experience leading complex technical programs, with meaningful experience in cybersecurity, product security, privacy, or a closely related risk-management domain. A track record of delivering multi-team programs across engineering and business functions, including work with senior leaders and teams that do not report to you. Strong program-management fundamentals: integrated plans, dependency and critical-path management, risk and issue resolution, capacity planning, change control, and outcome-based reporting. Ability to understand security architecture a