Product Consultant (Part-Time)
Auto Import<p><strong>About Motorq</strong></p><p>Every day, cars are wirelessly transmitting real-time data directly from their onboard systems. Most of that data goes unused.</p><p>Motorq (pronounced mo-torque) is changing that. We’re the leading Connected Vehicle Intelligence platform, built in direct partnership with the world’s largest automotive manufacturers — 25+ brands and counting. We deliver AI-powered solutions for some of the world's largest fleets, car rental companies, dealerships, and lenders, helping them improve operations, cut fuel consumption, and reduce accidents.</p><p>Our leadership team brings interdisciplinary experience across automotive engineering, AI, data science, and SaaS. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Seattle, Motorq has raised a $40M+ Series B and is growing rapidly across new geographies and use cases.</p><p>We're a team of people who dream big, hold each other to a high standard, and run toward hard problems. If you want to own meaningful work at a company with real traction and a multi-billion dollar market opportunity, we'd love to meet you.</p><p><strong>The Role</strong></p><p>Motorq is building out a serious AI product layer — one that sits above our connected vehicle data foundation and turns raw fleet intelligence into autonomous workflows, predictive insights, and productivity-multiplying tools for the businesses that depend on it. We are looking for an experienced Product Consultant to help us build it right. <br><br>This is a part-time engagement — approximately 2 to 3 days per week — designed for a senior product thinker who wants meaningful, high-impact work without a full-time commitment. The role is structured with the explicit intention of growing into a full-time position as the engagement deepens and the AI product layer scales. <br><br>The Product Consultant will work across two connected dimensions. The first is internal: shaping Motorq's AI product strategy, roadmap, and build priorities — from LLM-powered insight engines and agentic workflows to evaluation frameworks and AI reliability standards for enterprise fleet environments. The second is external: going deep with Motorq's most important customers to understand their operational processes — how they manage maintenance, dispatch, driver performance, compliance, and end-of-life decisions — and identifying where AI can meaningfully increase productivity, efficiency, and the repeatability of those processes at scale. <br><br>The ideal candidate has shipped AI products in a production enterprise environment, knows how to run rigorous customer discovery, and can move fluidly between product strategy and hands-on definition. Experience in fleet, mobility, automotive, or industrial operations is a strong plus — but more important is a track record of turning complex operational contexts into well-designed, durable AI products.</p><p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><ul><li><p>Contribute to the definition and prioritization of Motorq's AI product roadmap — working with Engineering, Data Science, and Product leadership to identify the highest-impact opportunities and sequence them intelligently.</p></li><li><p>Conduct deep operational discovery with Motorq customers — mapping their workflows, understanding their pain points and productivity bottlenecks, and identifying where AI-powered automation, prediction, or decision support can create the most value.</p></li><li><p>Translate customer process knowledge into crisp, actionable product requirements — defining what an AI solution needs to do, how success is measured, and what guardrails are needed for enterprise reliability.</p></li><li><p>Evaluate and recommend AI approaches for specific use cases — including LLM-powered interfaces, agentic task automation, RAG-based retrieval, predictive models, and multi-step workflow orchestration — matching the method to the problem.</p></li><li><p>Define AI product evaluation frameworks and reliability standards appropriate for high-stakes fleet operations — ensuring Motorq's AI products are trustworthy, explainable, and production-ready.</p></li><li><p>Partner with Engineering and Data Science to move from requirements to pilots — participating in design reviews, sprint planning, and pilot readouts to keep product and technical direction tightly aligned.</p></li><li><p>Identify patterns across customer processes and use cases that can be productized — turning one-off implementations into repeatable, scalable AI capabilities that Motorq can deliver across its customer base.</p></li><li><p>Stay at the forefront of the agentic AI and LLM ecosystem — bringing relevant new capabilities, frameworks, and approaches into Motorq's product thinking before competitors do.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p><ul><li><p>A product thinker with deep AI fluency — you understand how AI systems are built well enough to make good product decisions, and you're energized by the challenge of applying them to real operational problems.</p></li><li><p>A process detective — you are naturally curious about how organizations actually work, you ask great discovery questions, and you can map a complex operational workflow quickly and accurately.</p></li><li><p>Customer-obsessed — you believe the best AI products start with a genuine understanding of the people and processes they serve, and you never skip that step.</p></li><li><p>Outcome-driven — you care about whether the AI you help build actually works in the field, not just in a demo, and you define success in terms of measurable customer impact.</p></li><li><p>Comfortable with ambiguity — you can make good product decisions with incomplete information, move fast in a startup environment, and refine as you learn.</p></li><li><p>A collaborative partner — you work well with engineering, data science, and customer-facing teams, and you bring others along without needing to own everything.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><ul><li><p>6+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years delivering AI-powered or data-driven products in a production enterprise environment.</p></li><li><p>Hands-on experience with AI/ML product development — including LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG architectures, and evaluation frameworks.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated ability to conduct structured customer discovery and translate operational process knowledge into well-scoped product requirements.</p></li><li><p>Experience identifying repeatable, scalable AI use cases from individual customer engagements — building toward a product, not just a custom implementation.</p></li><li><p>Background in fleet management, mobility, logistics, industrial operations, or connected vehicle platforms is a strong plus.</p></li><li><p>Technical fluency — able to work as a peer with engineers and data scientists, review technical approaches critically, and make informed build-vs-buy decisions.</p></li><li><p>Strong written communication — able to produce tight product specs, crisp roadmap narratives, and clear customer-facing documentation.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Logistics</strong></p><ul><li><p>Part-time engagement — approximately 2 to 3 days per week.</p></li><li><p>Remote.</p></li><li><p>Occasional travel to customer sites and the SF Bay Area for planning sessions and team meetings.</p></li><li><p>Structured as a contractor engagement, with a clear path to a full-time role.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Compensation</strong></p><ul><li><p>Competitive part-time compensation.</p></li><li><p>This engagement is structured with the clear intention to grow into a full-time role.</p></li></ul>