Customer Marketing Manager

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

$93K/yr – $116K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own customer advocacy and lifecycle marketing at Motive, building programs, campaigns, and a centralized proof-points repository to drive adoption, retention, and advocacy.

  • Must-have: 3–5 years in customer marketing, advocacy, or lifecycle roles within B2B tech and strong storytelling
  • Standout: Manages reviews and community programs, with cross-functional collaboration to fuel go-to-market assets

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute customer marketing campaigns that support adoption, retention, renewals, and expansion
  • Manage customer communications across key moments in the lifecycle, partnering with Customer Success, Sales, Product, and Marketing
  • Coordinate closely with internal teams to ensure customer advocacy assets are discoverable, up to date, and actively used
  • Maintain campaign calendars, trackers, and workflows to ensure consistent execution
  • Design how customers are activated across the business—spanning references, storytelling, events, campaigns, media interviews, and other go-to-market initiatives
  • Identify and recruit customers for advocacy opportunities and strengthen long-term relationships with champions
  • Evangelizing the value of customer advocacy internally; this includes articulating advocacy contributions to executive-level audiences
  • Produce and manage customer testimonials, case studies, customer spotlights, and reference stories
  • Build and maintain a centralized, well-organized repository of customer proof points for Sales and Marketing use
  • Manage and grow Motive’s online customer community through consistent programming and engagement

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 3–5 years of experience in customer marketing, online reviews, advocacy, community, or lifecycle marketing within a B2B technology company
  • Proven experience launching and managing customer marketing and retention/expansion-focused programs
  • Ability to balance customer empathy with business priorities when managing advocacy requests
  • Strong storytelling, writing, and customer communication skills
  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail across systems, timelines, and customer touchpoints
  • Experience in establishing, building, and managing strong customer relationships
  • Familiarity with review platforms such as G2 and TrustRadius, customer engagement tools such as Peerbound , and project management solutions like Asana
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives end-to-end
  • Experience interviewing customers and contributing to written customer stories or case studies is a plus

Preferred

  • Experience working in industries with physical operations—such as transportation and logistics, field service, construction

Benefits

  • health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
  • paid time off
  • sick time off
  • short term and long term disability coverage
  • life insurance
  • 401k contribution
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Motive

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. We serve nearly 100,000 customers, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, energy, trucking and logistics, and the public sector, among others.Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.

Founded in 2013
San Francisco, California, USA
5.5K employees (171 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$141.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.3%
Direct
69.9%
Referral
4.1%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
113 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
3.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$717.3M
Last Raise
$150M
Series Unknown, 8 months ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2025
    Series Unknown • $150M
  • Oct 2023
    Secondary Market
  • May 2022
    Series F • $150M

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