Compensation Overview

About the role:

Samsara is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to own and drive delivery for high-impact programs in the Data, Science, and Services team. As part of this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work across multiple groups in Samsara, including our infrastructure teams, full-stack teams, firmware/embedded teams, and our hardware teams. The Sr TPM role requires excellent leadership skills, strategic thinking, strong technical expertise, the ability to partner across Samsara, and the ability to manage high-impact projects.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping 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 won’t 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.
• You’re 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 high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will: 

• Drive execution through rapid iteration with data, engineering, and product leaders. We are standing up our programs, so day to day work will initially involve a mix of project and program management.
• Coordinate programs focused on scaled infrastructure, privacy, and science, to bring best practices to data-driven decision making
• Proactively identify and prioritize strategic data-related initiatives and work with leadership to develop, plan, and execute.
• Lead cross-team and cross-functional projects and initiatives of tactical and strategic importance. This includes building consensus and ensuring accountability.
• Interface with scientists, engineers, managers, and product management to keep projects on track and everyone aligned with strategic goals.
• Communicate broadly on goals, progress, and process.
• Teach and drive program and project management best practices throughout the organization
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s 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:

• Bachelors degree in a quantitative field required; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years in technical program management in the tech industry, especially data-related programs (science and analytics, infrastructure/platform, data engineering, privacy, etc.).
• A natural problem solver and strategic thinker, who has a passion for creating a structured approach to solving complex problems, breaking down ambiguous problems and turning them into actionable solutions.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail, with an ability to prioritize and manage multiple cross-functional projects with constrained resources and tight deadlines. Project and program management should be in your skillset.
• Exceptional communication skills. Comfortable presenting to executives, internal stakeholders and external customers. Able to successfully adapt your style and leverage strong listening skills to inform your approach.
• Ability to build strong relationships with cross-functional partners and senior leadership across Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing.
• Versed in planning and tracking tools such as Airtable, JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience with managing software launches.
• Executive-level experience and communication skills.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Basic SQL