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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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Motive is seeking a Corporate Communications Manager to support our global communications team. This role is critical in helping us share Motive’s story: empowering the people who run physical operations with AI-powered tools that make their work safer and more productive. We continue to stand out by doing what we do best—putting our industry-leading AI to work solving real-world customer problems at scale.
As Corporate Communications Manager, you’ll provide hands-on support across a wide range of initiatives, including product and partner PR, AI storytelling, sharing customer wins through media coverage, and corporate updates. You’ll also play a key role in supporting earnings communications, crisis response, and cross-functional projects that touch multiple parts of the business. This role is best suited for an agile communicator who thrives on collaboration, can juggle many priorities, and has the ability to explain complex hardware, software, and AI technology in simple, compelling terms.
What You'll Do:- Partner with the Corporate Communications team on product launches, partnerships, AI storytelling, and customer success stories.
- Support earnings communications, crisis communications, and other high-stakes corporate announcements.
- Draft and edit press releases, executive bylines, blog posts, FAQs, award submissions, speaking engagement outlines, and other external materials.
- Work with business, technology, and trade media to help secure impactful coverage.
- Collaborate with senior executives to prepare talking points and messaging for interviews, events, and announcements.
- Help explain complex AI and enterprise technology solutions in clear, relatable language for multiple audiences.
- Support multiple cross-functional projects across communications, product marketing, customer marketing, and more.
- Support the management of our global PR agencies located in the US, Mexico, and the UK.
- Stay agile, jumping in where needed to support the team’s priorities with effective multitasking.
- Take a solutions-oriented approach to all work.
- 5+ years of experience in corporate communications and PR, preferably agency and in-house.
- A background in B2B enterprise technology communications is required.
- Experience supporting earnings cycles and crisis communications is preferred.
- Strong writer with attention to detail and the ability to translate technical concepts into clear messages.
- Business press experience with an understanding of how to pitch and shape stories.
- Comfortable working across time zones and cultures.
- Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and ability to take constructive feedback.
- Highly collaborative, motivated, and brings a positive, team-oriented approach.
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools, such as Asana and WordPress, is a plus.
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits
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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