About the Role: 

Motive is looking for an experienced Technical Account Manager (TAM)  to join our Global Technical Support organization to provide white-glove service, technical support, and executive-level communications to our customers. In this role, you will be focused on driving technical excellence and delivering a seamless support experience for Motive’s most strategic and complex enterprise customers. This role centers on leading the resolution of high-impact technical challenges, serving as the primary point of escalation for the team, and building trusted relationships with customers through expert guidance and advocacy. As a Senior Technical Account Manager, your workday is focused on a group of high-priority clients who recognize and relate to you as their central point of contact for Motive’s product support issues, including proactive technical support, upcoming feature consultation, issue escalation, training recommendations, and communicating procedural and status updates on the customer’s environment. You act as the customer advocate as you work closely with engineering, product management, and other key areas to innovate and improve performance around product requirements, enhancements, process improvements, and industry best practices. 

What You’ll Do: 

• In this role, you will be adept at both building relationships and resolving issues at all levels within Technical Support.
• Serve as the senior subject matter expert responsible for troubleshooting, diagnosing, and act as the senior escalation point and subject matter expert for complex, high-impact technical issues faced by enterprise clients, driving resolution for cases that go beyond standard TSE expertise.
• Collaborate extensively with Product, Engineering, Escalations, and specialized support teams to address product-level defects, ensure technical alignment, and expedite escalated case resolution for enterprise accounts.
• Build, foster and maintain relationships with your accounts by proactively monitoring their account and providing them timely updates. 
• Build SQL based queries for proactive identification of device health and monitoring. 
• End-to-end ownership of the most critical customer issues/escalations including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause, and issue resolution.
• Build a strong working relationship with the Account Management team to manage and set the customer expectations accordingly by focusing on customer satisfaction. 
• Providing feedback to Product teams on common or emerging issues proactively to mitigate potential customer escalations. 
• Be the architect of the account level documentation by ensuring its adaptation. 
• Personalizing customer experience by strengthening customer relationships. 
• Train, coach and provide consultations to your direct team (Technical Support Engineers and TAMs).
• Ensure thorough process and SLA (Service Level Agreement) adherence during multi-channel enterprise support operations, including ownership of urgent, after-hours escalations as required.
• Participate in on-call rotation; be available outside of normal working hours to facilitate customer upgrades and change management practices.

What We’re Looking For: 

• Minimum 2 to 4+ years of experience in Technical Support with increasing responsibility.
• Have a good understanding of the Global Mid-Market/ Strategic/Enterprise market and preferably have hands-on experience in providing them a white-glove customer experience. 
• Proven experience with handling routine change management requests directly reported from the end user – data change, bug fix, consultation etc. 
• Proven ability to deep dive technical problems and diagnose the underlying issues. 
• Experience with doing code reviews for custom configurations for end users by thoroughly analyzing the dependencies utilizing the CMDB/centralized database. 
• Excellent expertise with Root Cause Analysis by using 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagram or Chronological Timeline.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage critical and complex issues in high-pressure environments
• Proven track record of using and implementing programming languages for issue analysis – Python, C/C++, Java etc. 
• Ability to analyze data and identify areas of improvement both in service and product by utilizing SQL. 
• Experience with hardware devices, firmware upgrades, change management and related testing practices.
• Experience with Third Party integrations such as Transportation Management or Fleet Maintenance systems.
• Technical background with preferred qualifications of Computer Science or Engineering is a must.
• Motivated individuals with eagerness to learn and go above and beyond. 
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Team player and can work in a professional environment.
• Expertise with APIs – bonus skillset.  

About the Role: 

Motive is looking for an experienced Technical Account Manager (TAM)  to join our Global Technical Support organization to provide white-glove service, technical support, and executive-level communications to our customers. In this role, you will be adept at both building relationships and resolving issues. As a Technical Account Manager, your workday is focused on a proactive review of a group of customers along with providing coaching and assistance to Technical Support Engineers for customers in your assigned segment. Additionally, you will be proactively working on technical support cases, upcoming feature consultation, issue escalation, training recommendations, and communicating procedural and status updates on the customer’s environment. You'll excel at solving problems quickly and efficiently and have a keen focus on finding a root cause to even the most obscure problem. You act as the customer advocate as you work closely with engineering, product management, and other key areas to innovate and improve performance around product requirements, enhancements, process improvements, and industry best practices. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Account Ownership: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for Strategic, Enterprise, and Mid-Market accounts. Build and maintain proactive partnerships with technical contacts at assigned accounts. Create, maintain, and improve account-specific technical documentation.
• Strategic Oversight: Maintain a macro-level understanding of account business needs and support activities.
• Performance Standards: Exceed benchmarks for response quality, timeliness, and customer satisfaction.
• Proactive Programs: Operate and drive account health campaigns for your portfolio of customers. 
• Relationship Management: Build internal and external relationships to resolve technical issues across all organizational levels.
• Technical Problem Solving: Collaborate with Product and Engineering to implement hardware, data, or process fixes with minimal user disruption.
• Root Cause Analysis: Use data tools to trace inconsistencies and bugs, reporting findings to senior technical teams.
• Case Management: Own end-to-end resolution of escalated cases to ensure a premium customer experience.
• Issue Lifecycle Management: Own the troubleshooting, identification, and resolution process for all assigned customer issues.
• Release Readiness: Monitor upcoming product releases to ensure seamless transitions for customers. Advocate for customers in Motive beta programs.  
• Query Development: Create SQL-based queries to identify and address emerging technical issues.
• On-Call Support: Participate in rotations and provide off-hours assistance for upgrades and change management. 

What We’re Looking For: 

Professional Experience & Performance

• 1 to 2 years of experience in Technical Support with a permanent employment status.
• Demonstrated history as an exceptional performer with a proactive "above and beyond" mindset.

Communication & Collaboration

• Full professional fluency in spoken and written English.
• Exceptional communication skills across all mediums (written, live chat, video conference, and in-person).
• Ability to provide concise, high-impact updates to stakeholders and senior engineering teams during escalations.
• A collaborative partner capable of working effectively in a professional, cross-functional environment.

Technical Expertise

• Advanced analytical skills to trace complex issues across hardware, APIs, and databases, using tools like SQL and log parsing to identify root causes and implement scalable, proactive solutions.
• Systems & Infrastructure: Experience managing hardware fault analysis, firmware upgrades, and change management practices.
• Deep familiarity with Motive’s product suite, specifically focusing on Compliance, Asset, and Safety.
• Integrations: Familiarity with third-party systems, including Transportation Management (TMS) or similar platforms. 
• API Proficiency: Strong understanding of API-based troubleshooting (advanced expertise is a significant plus).
• Domain Knowledge (Desirable): Familiarity with telematics and fleet management solutions, specifically focusing on Compliance, Asset, and Safety.

Strategic Problem Solving

• Ability to identify technical trends and implement solutions that prevent field failures.
• Experience evaluating bespoke, highly complex custom configurations and their impact on user workflows.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage critical escalations in high-pressure environments.

Education & Availability

• Background: Technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
• Flexibility: Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and work outside standard hours to facilitate customer upgrades.