About the role:
Were looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to drive vision for Samsaras platform security capabilities.
The Core Infrastructure team provides the technology foundations for Samsaras cloud business including capabilities that position us as a market leader in security and compliance. Our focus on security is critical as we help customers achieve their safety and compliance goals across Samsaras platform offerings.
In this role you will help identify and prioritize our opportunities to invest in differentiated security capabilities and partner closely with our engineering team to shape our security roadmap. The features you collaborate to develop and launch will have a significant impact on our customers experience. You will partner with stakeholders in our global team across the US and Europe.
This role is open to candidates residing in the US.
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 foundational security capabilities for Samsaras cloud platform.
- Deeply understand advocate for and support our end customers security needs as they use the Samsara product portfolio.
- Establish a north star and act as a flag bearer for availability performance and support experiences that build trust with our customer base.
- Collaborate with downstream product teams and stakeholders who depend on your teams capabilities. Manage a robust intake process to understand emerging security risks and opportunities.
- Partner with our legal and compliance teams to strategically prioritize compliance certifications and customerfacing security programs.
- Identify technology trends that create new threats and risks for cloud software mobile and hardware solutions.
- 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 technical understanding with an ability to grasp technical concepts & establish credibility with engineers.
- Experience defining features in the software security space and familiarity with cloud security fundamentals.
- 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.
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle and track record of strong partnership with diverse engineering stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills. Must be comfortable presenting to customers and internal audiences including senior executives. Can drive crossorganizational alignment with high judgment and effectiveness.
- 7 years of job experience in relevant product technical and/or business roles.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical field; an MBA is a plus.
- Product management experience in the cloud infrastructure space and/or on products with a vertically integrated hardwaresoftware stack.
- Familiarity with B2B SaaS products and working with B2B sales teams.
- Experience with both external and internal customers as key stakeholders to manage in roadmap planning and development.
Required Experience:
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