Executive IC, Engineering

Motion•Canada,

21h•Remote

About The Position

Motion is building the command center for creative strategists: an AI-native platform that bridges the gap between performance marketers and creative teams, so they can uncover what’s working, what’s not, and ship more winning ads across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok. We’re at the forefront of AI as the foundation of Motion. Motion now automatically analyzes and organizes creative at scale, surfaces competitor trends, and is rolling out a persistent creative strategy agent that retains context, runs workflows, and integrates with the tools teams already use. Today, Motion is trusted by some of the world’s top e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands and agencies (including Vuori, True Classic, The Farmer’s Dog, and HexClad) and has analyzed over $14B in media spend. When leading brands want to understand their creative performance, they turn to us. Our founders have built successful companies before, including alongside several of the people now at Motion. A number of teammates chose to build again here — a reflection of the trust, culture, and conviction behind what we’re building. The people building Motion are deeply embedded in where AI and our industry is heading, and obsessed with closing the gap between what's possible and what's actually shipping in product. We're a 70+ person team, having raised over $65M in total capital at a most recent valuation of $400M, with consecutive record revenue quarters and real momentum. If you want to work on a hard problem, with people who've done it before, and a product that customers genuinely love - we'd love to connect! Most engineering leaders stop writing code the moment they inherit an org, but the best ones never wanted to. They built and ran teams because that was how you gained leverage, but they were always ICs at heart. In the AI era the math has changed: a single engineer with the right agentic workflow can now outship a team of thirty. We're hiring someone who has run engineering at scale and is choosing to come back to the trenches, own a customer-facing surface end-to-end, and set the bar for what one person can build. Jean-Michel Lemieux, the former CTO of Shopify, just joined a Series B startup as an Executive IC. His title inspired ours, and transitions like his are our reference point. If that's the kind of move you've been waiting to make, this is your seat. Our tech stack: React, Node.js with Express, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Azure.

Requirements

A long track record of building and shipping software, including leading engineering organizations at scale while remaining deeply hands-on.
A development workflow already built around AI coding agents, where tools like Claude Code and Cursor are second nature.
The judgment to make big technical calls and the ability to implement them yourself.
The mindset of someone who could start a company but would rather join one that's already moving fast.

Responsibilities

Owning a meaningful surface of Motion's product end-to-end and setting the quality bar by shipping it yourself.
Using AI tooling to operate with the leverage of a whole team and helping shape how AI is used across the engineering organization.
Raising the craft and velocity of the engineering team by example, not by managing it.