[Hiring] Principal, R&D Learning Products & Enablement @Samsara

Role Description

R&D Enablement helps our Product, Engineering, and Design teams build the capabilities, access the knowledge, and develop the ways of working required to deliver for our customers. We are looking for a Principal, R&D Learning Products & Enablement to define the future of this function:

• Understand how R&D teams work.
• Identify the highest-value capability and performance needs.
• Translate emerging technologies and business priorities into scalable learning products and enablement solutions.

This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role for someone who can move between strategy, technical product understanding, learning-product design, and end-to-end program delivery. You will:

• Build and prioritize the R&D Enablement roadmap.
• Create tools, automations, knowledge solutions, and learning experiences.
• Work directly with R&D leaders, engineers, technology vendors, Global Learning & Development, People, and Business Technology partners.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in Canada.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical product management, technical program management, developer enablement, technical learning, learning technology, product enablement, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working directly with software engineering, product, data, or AI teams to deliver technical products, programs, or enablement solutions.
• Experience supporting Product, Engineering, Design, or another highly technical organization.
• Demonstrated ability to understand emerging technologies, developer tools, AI platforms, and technical workflows.
• Hands-on experience creating functional prototypes, tools, workflow automations, or self-service solutions.
• Experience translating business and user problems into product requirements, user stories, workflows, success criteria, implementation plans, and scalable solutions.
• Strong product and program leadership skills.
• Experience designing and scaling learning products, technical onboarding, knowledge solutions, developer education, or adoption programs.

Requirements

• Build trusted relationships across R&D and conduct discovery to identify the most important capability, knowledge, adoption, and performance needs.
• Diagnose whether the appropriate solution is a learning experience, structured knowledge, workflow change, automation, self-service tool, community, manager resource, or another intervention.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, AI models, developer tools, and changes in how technical teams work.
• Translate complex technical concepts into scalable learning products, developer-onboarding experiences, knowledge resources, playbooks, tools, automations, and communities.
• Create and test functional prototypes, tools, and workflow automations using AI-assisted development environments, APIs, low-code platforms, and other appropriate technologies.
• Lead complex programs from discovery through launch and adoption.
• Own and continuously improve R&D and developer onboarding.
• Define outcome measures that go beyond attendance and satisfaction.
• Serve as the senior functional leader for R&D Enablement.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to more junior team members and partners.
• Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles.

Benefits

• Flexible, employee-led remote model.
• Professional development stipend.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
• Equity opportunities for eligible roles.
• Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity.