Product Management Leader (IC) - Video Safety

About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to help us take one of our largest and fastest-growing businesses - Video-based Safety to the next level.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product, you will guide the product strategy and execution, partner with colleagues in Engineering, Science, Design, and cross-functionality with our Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams. With a laser focus, entrepreneurial spirit, and easy-to-work-with collaborative approach, you’ll help us drive the next step change in the growth of the product, and help us scale and rethink some of the most in-demand AI/ML - based Safety features.

The Safety product line combines hardware and software (on-device firmware, a cloud-based UI, and a set of APIs), so you’re adept at working across this stack and have experience delivering similar products at scale. A core and deep focus is our use of computer vision, and AI-driven capabilities to deliver video intelligence, workflows automation, and ultimately meet customer business needs.

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, and 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.

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In this role, you will:

• Create and execute a compelling vision for Samsara’s Driver Safety offering, working with our Design Engineering teams to bring it to life, defining success criteria stage gates, and ensuring on-time delivery to customers.
• Define product requirements for user-facing capabilities and serve as the ‘voice of the customer’ in trade-off discussions. Obsess over the end-to-end customer journey to create experiences that delight our customers.
• Leverage data to understand our customers and market positioning to ensure effective prioritization, establish a roadmap, and define long-term strategy.
• Guide your products through Beta, Early Access, and GA stages, setting clear success criteria and stage gates for each leg of the journey, evaluate willingness to pay as well as pricing and packaging, ultimately preparing your product for market success and the high bar we have for our customers.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural values — Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, and Win as a Team.

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 7-10+ years in a software product management role, with at least some experience in an ‘entrepreneurial’ product role building a new, revenue-generating product or service offering from scratch.
• Deep experience in AI/ML and Computer Vision technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable presenting to customers, internal audiences, executives, etc. Should also feel very comfortable writing clear, and concise strategy documents that will be reviewed at all levels of the organization.
• Strong technical understanding; Ability to grasp technical concepts and quickly establish credibility with engineers.
• Bias-to-action and a proven track record of delivering outstanding results for customers the business on tight timelines. You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty writing product specs and jumping on calls to support the sales team.

An ideal candidate also has:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical field; an MBA is a plus.
• Deep experience creating and growing products leveraging CV/ML.
• Product Management experience in the IoT space and/or on products with a vertically integrated hardware + software stack.
• Familiarity with B2B SaaS products and working with B2B sales teams.
• Entrepreneurial experience.