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 intelligent 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.
Hi, I’m Gary, Motion’s Head of Growth. My career has spanned a few fields: teaching, consulting, and data analytics. Broad experiences but not deep. I came to Motion as the first generalist business person on the team, but I knew to find genuine satisfaction in my career I needed to specialize. I quickly found a home in growth marketing - the intersection of product, data, and marketing.
Over the years, I’ve become obsessed with not just marketing, but more broadly, how to distribute a product. That is the problem you and I will work on together. “If you build it, they will come” is the exact antithesis of how the world of technology works. To distribute a product efficiently you need to fight for every single inch, one by one. I’m confident that Motion’s growth marketing team is world-class not only via the results we deliver but also from talking to many (120+) marketing leaders in tech. From these conversations, I have found many of the things promising young companies do are wrong and broken. These issues can be summarized as: (a) companies try to do too many distribution channels at once (indigestion not starvation) and (b) companies’ bar for success is not high enough and often not even quantified. The result is marketing (distribution) organizations are often mediocre, bottlenecked, rubber stamp compliance-laden, and not performance driven. In opposition, Motion is (a) razor focused on a few methods of distribution that are best-in-class (b) highly driven by numbers to form conviction.
Your role on this team as the 3rd full-time growth hire is crucial. You’ll own a multi-million dollar budget (think same impressions/month as the Superbowl) with the expectation that you’ll be able to scale that amount by 10x over time. I’ll teach you everything I know with the assumption within 6-8 months your own beliefs and channel-specific knowledge will outperform mine. I don’t believe you need to have deep performance marketing knowledge to succeed (though experience can help). Instead I believe mindset and the fundamental skills highlighted below can take you much further in this role.
I’m hiring an ambitious growth associate who will work closely with me to manage our most critical paid growth initiatives during our next chapter of hyper-growth. We’ve built a world-class marketing operation, and we’ll teach you everything we know about marketing. The goal for someone really successful in this position is to own the operations of an entire marketing channel for us within 6 months and become the best in the world at scaling that channel within 1 year.
You will be successful at Motion if:
You’re ambitious and you’re looking to prove yourself. For most people, 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. 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 don’t just want to work on “strategy” and “managing stakeholders”. If you don’t do the work, it’s not going to get done. Lots of people at Motion are extremely intelligent, experienced, and more strategic than you, and until you gain enough experience you should not assume your ideas will win. We will help you gain that experience
You are a fast learner and can quickly familiarize yourself with a complex business and product. You don’t get lost in the weeds in details that don’t matter. You don’t need every edge case spelled out for you because you can figure out the goals of the project and fill in the blanks
You are quantitative and can write simple code and quickly set up no-code solutions such as Zapier and Webflow. It’s extremely important that you are not always waiting on engineering or data teams to do simple tasks for you. Being technical makes you self-sufficient, and we’ve intentionally built our business team to be technical. You will be given a simple coding exercise during the interview process to verify this point
You have strong attention to detail and operational excellence so you can run many experiments without being sloppy. You have a strong business sense for what priorities to test and which areas to double down on
We’re looking for someone with 2-4 years of professional experience. Experience in startups, consulting or finance, and/or MBA may be helpful, but we are open to considering any candidate who believes they are a good fit based on the success criteria above
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/
