Designated Support Engineer

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 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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About the Role

Motive is looking for an experienced Designated Support Engineer (DSE) 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 Designated Support Engineer, your workday is focused on a small number of 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 use your judgment and technical expertise to identify, document, and report issues with design, reliability, and maintenance issues. 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 Customer Support.
• You will be the primary technical point of contact for a small number of Motive’s Enterprise Accounts.
• You will own or orchestrate the resolution of cases, help build strong partnerships, and provide an unparalleled support experience for assigned customers.
• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause, and issue resolution.
• Meet or exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness, and overall customer experience.
• Work in close collaboration with Customer Success Managers to receive, manage and expeditiously resolve escalations from assigned customers.
• Collect information and document bugs with Engineering for product issues that are impacting customers.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with technical contacts at assigned customers.
• Provide feedback to the training and documentation so that common or emerging issues can be addressed before they become serious or widespread.
• Assess the risk of product releases, and impending and important dates throughout the year, and act to mitigate any identified issues.
• Understanding the core business of the assigned accounts & overseeing all Support activities on a macro level, at all levels of Support.
• Provide well-thought-out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help designated customers integrate and maintain their Account Integrations with Motive.
• Updating and looping internal teams regarding important account SOPs if any.
• Ensuring specific account SOPs are created, followed and improved.

Working in close liaison with other departments and tiers, especially Tier-3.

What We’re Looking For

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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