Product Director, Vehicle Data Platform

Summary

Join Samsara, a leader in the Connected Operations™ Cloud, and become a technical Product leader for our Telematics Platform. You will own the Vehicle Platform powering over 1.2M vehicle gateways, defining data collection and leveraging strategies. Responsibilities include creating and executing platform strategy, collaborating with engineering and data science teams, and leading a high-performing team. This role requires significant experience in platform product management, technical understanding, and leadership. You will impact global industries, driving innovation and customer success. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package and flexible working arrangements.

Requirements

• Experience in a platform product role within a large software development organization
• Strong technical understanding, with an ability to grasp technical concepts & establish credibility with engineers
• A proven track-record of delivering outstanding results for customers & the business, managing significant complexity and bold timelines. You also have a bias-to-action and aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty
• Demonstrated experience setting strategy for complex technical areas, and using analytics/data to measure progress toward goals and make investment choices
• Experience hiring, developing, and leading people as a direct manager
• Excellent communication skills. Must be comfortable presenting to customers and internal audiences, including senior executives
• 10+ years of job experience, in relevant product, technical, and/or business roles
• BS / MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience (i.e. software engineering experience)

Responsibilities

• Create and execute the strategy for how we define, collect, and leverage data from vehicles (spanning light/heavy duty, ICE/electric, etc) used in our customer fleets globally. This also includes finding opportunities to monetize and innovate on top of this data, as well as being proactive in looking at where the vehicle market is going and how Samsara can leverage regulatory and competitive tailwinds
• Drive our Telematics Platform strategy and execution, ensuring we maintain a high quality set of services and APIs used both internally and externally.  These are the bedrock of much of Samsara’s functionality
• Work closely with our OEM Integrations and Partnerships teams to holistically support the ingestion of vehicle system data, including when it is being provided through OEM cloud APIs rather than Samsara’s own vehicle gateways
• Collaborate with our Data Science team to define and provide ongoing visibility into our diagnostics coverage and quality.  Use data to focus on key gaps to close and how to invest the team’s resources wisely in supporting existing and future customer fleets
• Drive insights that can be surfaced both internally and to customers, including support for predictive maintenance and other use cases that combine vehicle data and ML
• Partner closely with our Engineering team (both firmware and full-stack) to ensure your team’s releases maintain high quality and high uptime/connectivity in the field, supporting the feature requirements of both the Telematics product area and dependencies from other product groups
• Lead quarterly and annual R&D planning cadences for your teams. This includes managing a robust “intake” process to understand vehicle platform needs across our product lines and factoring those into your priorities
• Collaborate & communicate across product line leadership to share your roadmap, evangelize your priorities, and help advance product-focused initiatives
• Partner with customer-facing teams to close strategic accounts, resolve escalations, and maintain relationships with top customers
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team of PMs
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on customer success, build for the long-term, adopt a growth mindset, be inclusive, and win as a team) as we scale globally

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in the telematics and/or automotive space
• Experience working on software platforms supporting $1B+ in revenue
• Technical familiarity with automotive communication protocols and vehicle onboard diagnostics systems
• Experience managing firmware-based features

Benefits

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