About the role:
Telematics is Samsaras second largest (and original) business. Our product is used by customers of all sizes and in a variety of industries throughout the US Canada Mexico and Europe. We help customers manage their fleet operations with realtime tracking and data gathered from vehicles (and sensors) in the field and ingested into our cloudbased platform. Through features spanning diagnostics routing maintenance fuel management electrification and sustainability analytics/reporting mobile device management compliance with ELD regulations and extensive 3rd party integrations with our APIs we are the comprehensive solution and platform for the world of physical operations.
In this role you will be responsible for roadmap and innovation within our Vehicle Data Platform group collecting data from Samsaras 1.4M vehicle gateways in the field. Your teams deliveries are the foundation for driving a wide range of products built on top of this data (e.g. Maintenance Sustainable Fleet/EV Management features etc).
We are looking for a technical Sr. Product Manager 1 with a deep interest (and prior experience) in 1 conceptualizing designing and building solutions to acquire and ingest data from vehicles using standards protocols for communication and diagnostics between vehicle components such as J1939 2 managing highcomplex crossfunctional projects and stakeholders expectations spanning areas such as sustainability safety security and fleet efficiency .
Youre someone who likes a challenge leverages a datadriven and analytical approach in your work can comfortably work through uncertainty and stays focused on making forward progress toward your goals. Youre also curious about how vehicle market trends and downstream product use cases can inform your roadmap. You are a problem solver and gogetter not deterred by roadblocks and focused on delivering results.
Together we are helping customers enhance their fleet operations and your passion & advocacy for customer needs is something you infuse into all of your work.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in realworld impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a highcalibre team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role you will:
- Own and evolve the capabilities and roadmap for the platforms that collect and store the diagnostics driving efficiency and increasing the speed at which diagnostics are made available to customers.
- Deeply understand advocate for and support the different ways that vehicle diagnostics can be used across the Samsara portfolio always focusing on preserving the customer experience.
- Collaborate with upstream/downstream product teams who depend on your teams capabilities. Manage a robust intake process based on customer impact and factor those into your priorities.
- Be accountable for continuously improving the consistency and quality of the diagnostics that empower the Samsara Platform.
- Collaborate with Engineering to drive the teams quarterly release plans and longterm roadmap.
- Communicate across product line leadership to share your roadmap evangelize your priorities and seek out areas of joint innovation.
- Partner with customerfacing teams to close strategic accounts resolve escalations and maintain relationships with top customers.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- Strong understanding of how to build for enterprisescale.
- Strong technical understanding with an ability to grasp technical concepts & establish credibility with engineers.
- A proven trackrecord of delivering outstanding results for customers & the business managing significant complexity and bold timelines. You also have a biastoaction and arent afraid to get your hands dirty.
- Demonstrated experience defining and executing product roadmap for technical areas and using analytics/data to measure progress toward goals and make investment choices.
- Excellent communication skills. Must be comfortable presenting to customers and internal audiences including senior executives.
- A proven experience with data platforms.
- 5 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).
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience working in the telematics and/or automotive space.
- Prior experience working with standard protocols for communication and diagnostics between vehicle components such as J1939.
- Experience managing firmwarebased features.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing solutions that rely both on Firmware and Full Stack.
Required Experience:
Senior IC