Principal Product Manager

Summary

Join Samsara's Platform group as a Principal Product Manager and develop features enabling customers to create automated workflows based on IoT events. You will own the strategy and product roadmap for the Automations Platform, leveraging data to understand customer needs and prioritize features. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and design teams to drive execution and meet product release plans. Communicate across product leadership, partner with customer-facing teams, and champion Samsara's cultural values. This role requires deep product management expertise, excellent technical understanding, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication skills. You'll have a significant impact on Samsara's revenue growth and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in product management with a proven track record of operating & delivering complex initiatives
• Excellent technical understanding, ability to grasp technical concepts and establish credibility with engineers
• Strong analytical skills, strategic mindset and the ability to synthesize customer insights and data into a cohesive strategy and product roadmap independently
• A proven track-record of delivering outstanding results for customers & the business, managing significant complexity & tight timelines. You also have a bias-to-action and aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty
• Excellent communication skills. Must be comfortable presenting to customers, executives, and internal audiences, adjusting your communication style based on your audience
• 10+ years of job experience, in relevant product, technical, and/or business roles. 7+ years of experience in product management

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy & product roadmap for the Automations Platform - define the most important problems to solve for customers, and work backwards from winning
• Leverage data to understand customer requirements and market needs to ensure effective prioritization of features and build the long-term strategy for the area
• Work with a talented team of product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to drive execution to meet the product release plans
• Communicate across product line leadership to share your roadmap, evangelize your priorities, and seek out areas of joint innovation
• Partner with customer-facing teams to close strategic accounts, resolve escalations, and maintain relationships with top customers
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural values (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally

Preferred Qualifications

• History of working on successful B2B products & working directly with enterprise customers
• Experience with both external and internal customers as key stakeholders to manage in roadmap planning and development
• Prior experience within a technical/consulting role such as software engineering, data science, management consulting, and technical program management would be hugely beneficial
• Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical field; an MBA is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• Employee-led remote and flexible working
• Health benefits
• Samsara for Good charity fund