Senior Product Manager

About Motion

Project management systems today are great at letting companies record their tasks, but place all of the burden on human project coordinators. These tools don’t know about the team’s time and resources and don’t have any intelligence — someone has to manually match tasks against their assumptions about the team’s capacity. Not only does this process waste precious company resources, it’s also error-prone and leads to overwork, missed deadlines, miscommunication, and micromanagement.

Motion is building the world’s most advanced project management system — one that doesn’t require a project coordinator manually tracking each task, but rather an intelligent system that can make sense of hundreds of tasks across dozens of projects and automatically coordinate them across every person on the team. Motion allows companies to focus on the work they need to do rather than wasting up to 50% of their resources on overhead.

Our users give us data on their workload (e.g. projects and tasks) and resources (employee roles, calendars, and schedules). Based on all this information, Motion makes intelligent decisions about how tasks should be executed — better than any human project coordinator. Teams that use Motion know what people are working on at any given time, when each task will be completed, and whether any tasks will fall behind schedule. The moment something changes, instead of the coordinator having to figure out all the cascading effects, Motion instantly creates a new optimized plan for the team.

Motion is the project management system of the future. We are growing extremely quickly, trusted by thousands of customers, have millions in revenue, near-infinite runway, and an exceptionally talented team.

Location: North America (Remote)

Compensation: $175k-$225k base salary, plus equity compensation

About the Hiring Manager

Hi, I’m Luis, Head of Product at Motion. My passion for design, user experience, and human-computer interaction has been the driving force in my career. I started my journey as a designer over 15 years ago while studying Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Boston University. I then went on to join Microsoft as a software engineer before transitioning into product management. I worked on advertising, stores, and was part of the founding team for Microsoft Teams. Later, I led Skype’s product management team before joining Motion, where I’m tackling the problem I’m most deeply passionate about: time.

I believe life is short, and if we can help every team be just a bit more productive, they can, in turn, leave their unique marks on the world.

My philosophy is simple: let people and companies focus on what they do best and let technology handle the rest.

The challenge we’re taking on—and the one you’ll join me in—is making organizations worldwide 100x more productive. At Motion, we’re pioneering a time and project management solution that truly gives users more time back than it takes. We’re just getting started, and I need someone who can help us build tools that genuinely boost productivity for every organization out there.

What sets our product team apart is our commitment to staying small, agile and unafraid of rapid user-led iteration. You’ll have significant responsibility and considerable freedom in design decisions.

Your role as the second product manager is crucial. You’ll share responsibilities with me and help build a world-class product management organization. I’ll share everything I know, with the expectation that within 3-6 months, your ideas and expertise will help us advance our mission.

If you’re driven, ambitious, and ready to make a real impact, let’s build something incredible together!

About The Role

I’m hiring a Senior Product Manager to own features end-to-end and take charge of building entirely new product lines for Motion. You’ll be driving everything—regularly meeting with customers, identifying the problems to solve, crafting a clear vision, defining and measuring success, prototyping, designing, and collaborating with engineering to bring ideas to life. Many teams today struggle with tools that are fragmented and inefficient, and our mission is to build products that solve real problems, scale effortlessly, and empower users to work smarter, not harder.

We work hard to ensure Motion’s team is one of the highest talent-density teams in the world. We have accomplished in weeks or months what it would take larger teams years to do. You will be successful in this role if:

• You know how to leverage design, engineering, and AI tools to get the job done without waiting on others. Whether it’s putting together a quick prototype in Figma, building a Zapier automation to triage tickets, or changing the application code to try different variations, you find ways to keep things moving. In the age of AI, you’re not just keeping up—you’re using it to improve how you work and make smarter, faster decisions

• You are ambitious and always looking for ways to improve. For most employees, this role will give you the most responsibilities you’ve ever had, while holding you to higher standards than other companies you’ve worked at. Don’t rest on your past achievements — expect to work your hardest and do the best work of your career at Motion. You will receive lots of coaching and feedback that you should seek to grow from

• You can take ownership of projects and lead them to completion while dealing with ambiguity and finding the right balance between speed and quality. You don’t need every detail and edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks

• You are a fast learner and can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex concepts, while being able to simplify them so our customers don’t have to. You aren’t afraid to tackle any part of the stack or learn a new unfamiliar technology.

• You have a strong understanding of how you can create the most impact, and don’t get lost in the weeds in details that don’t matter. You’re excited to work on whatever solves the biggest customer problems, not just the coolest/flashiest features or technical challenges

• You can collaborate effectively with others and work well in an environment where the best ideas win. You should expect your ideas to get challenged and to learn a lot from your coworkers and leaders

Read about Motion’s product design philosophy here:

https://motionapp.notion.site/Product-Design-Philosophy-fe8ec9d19caa4b779a53c302ff7ca9a4?pvs=4

Motion is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, race, ancestry, disability, religion, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage all qualified candidates to apply for our job openings. 

Helpful Links:

How Motion Operates: https://motionapp.notion.site/How-Motion-Operates-1331471137eb8011b9d7f4064af7e505

Motion Culture: https://motionapp.notion.site/Motion-Company-Culture-21bd766b1f864764b0db2fa72529b182

Motion in the Press: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/19/2393012/

https://www.usemotion.com