Samsara

Principal Product Manager – Platform

Samsara

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: District of Columbia • Massachusetts • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Pioneer the 3-5 year strategic roadmap and architecture for the Reporting Platform, positioning it as a core differentiator and multi-hundred-million dollar platform for the business.
  • Define the strategy for incorporating AI/ML tools into data exploration and visualization, transforming raw data into prescriptive, actionable insights for customers.
  • Influence executive leadership and cross-product teams on critical investment areas, long-term technical debt reduction, and data governance standards.
  • Own the vision for cross-product data analysis, ensuring seamless and high-performance reporting across Telematics, Safety, Equipment Monitoring, and all future product lines.
  • Partner with customer-facing teams to close strategic enterprise accounts and build executive-level relationships with top customers, serving as the platform's product evangelist.
  • Drive the definition of the most important customer problems to solve, leveraging data and market needs to build the long-term strategy and work backwards from winning.
  • Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural values as we scale globally.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive experience, including 7+ years in product management, with a proven track record of operating and delivering complex, multi-year initiatives.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale data platforms, business intelligence (BI) tools, or customer-facing reporting/analytics products.
  • Excellent technical understanding with an ability to grasp and lead strategic discussions on data warehousing, data quality, data integrity, and API design.
  • Exceptional strategic mindset and analytical skills, capable of synthesizing disparate customer insights and market data into a cohesive, high-impact product strategy.
  • Proven track record of delivering outstanding results for customers and the business, managing significant complexity and ambiguity independently.
  • Superior executive communication skills, comfortable and effective presenting and defending complex strategy to customers, executives, and broad internal audiences.
  • Experience driving complex technical initiatives involving multiple internal Platform and Product stakeholders.
  • Prior experience working on products involving both external (customer-facing) and internal stakeholders for roadmap planning and development.
  • A prior technical background (e.g., software engineering, data science) or a deep technical education (Bachelors or Masters in a technical field).
  • History of working on highly successful B2B enterprise products.
Benefits
  • Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working
  • health benefits
  • much, much more

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data platformsbusiness intelligence toolsdata warehousingdata qualitydata integrityAPI designAI toolsML toolsdata analysisreporting/analytics products
Soft skills
strategic mindsetanalytical skillsexecutive communicationrelationship buildingproblem solvinginfluenceleadershipcollaborationcustomer focuscultural values champion
Certifications
Bachelors in technical fieldMasters in technical field