[Hiring] Director, Product - Vehicle Data Platform @Samsara
Mar 26, 2025 - Samsara is hiring a remote Director, Product - Vehicle Data Platform. 💸 Salary: $154,000 - $275,000 usd. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
Telematics is Samsara’s 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 real-time tracking and data gathered from vehicles (and sensors) in the field and ingested into our cloud-based platform. Through features spanning:
- Routing
- Maintenance
- Fuel management
- Electrification and sustainability
- Analytics/reporting
- Mobile device management
- Compliance with ELD regulations
- Extensive 3rd party integrations with our APIs
In this role, you will own the Vehicle Platform that powers Samsara’s 1.2M+ vehicle gateways in the field – from firmware functionality that runs on the gateway, including how we collect diagnostic data from vehicle systems and interoperate with connected devices, all the way to our cloud-based Dashboard experience where customers leverage vehicle data, insights, and the downstream features that depend on your team’s platform (e.g. Maintenance, Sustainable Fleet Management, EV features, etc).
In this role, you will:
- Create and execute the strategy for how we define, collect, and leverage data from vehicles used in our customer fleets globally.
- Drive our Telematics Platform strategy and execution, ensuring we maintain a high quality set of services and APIs used both internally and externally.
- Work closely with our OEM Integrations and Partnerships teams to holistically support the ingestion of vehicle system data.
- Collaborate with our Data Science team to define and provide ongoing visibility into our diagnostics coverage and quality.
- Drive insights that can be surfaced both internally and to customers.
- Partner closely with our Engineering team to ensure your team’s releases maintain high quality and high uptime/connectivity in the field.
- Lead quarterly and annual R&D planning cadences for your teams.
- Collaborate & communicate across product line leadership to share your roadmap.
- Partner with customer-facing teams to close strategic accounts, resolve escalations, and maintain relationships with top customers.
- Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team of PMs.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally.
Qualifications
- Experience in a platform product role within a large software development organization.
- Strong technical understanding, with an ability to grasp technical concepts & establish credibility with engineers.
- A proven track-record of delivering outstanding results for customers & the business.
- Demonstrated experience setting strategy for complex technical areas.
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading people as a direct manager.
- Excellent communication skills.
- 10+ years of job experience, in relevant product, technical, and/or business roles.
- BS / MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
Requirements
- Experience working in the telematics and/or automotive space.
- Experience working on software platforms supporting $1B+ in revenue.
- Technical familiarity with automotive communication protocols and vehicle onboard diagnostics systems.
- Experience managing firmware-based features.
Benefits
- Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package.
- Employee-led remote and flexible working.
- Health benefits.
- Samsara for Good charity fund.
- Much more.
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Salary
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$154,000 - $275,000 usd
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Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 26, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
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