[Hiring] Senior Manager, Agents @Samsara

Role Description

Samsara's AI Experience team builds the Samsara Assistant and Agent Studio, where customers create chat and voice agents that work across their safety, maintenance, and operations data.

• Agent Studio is now generally available, and usage across chat and voice has more than tripled since June 2026.
• This is a new role. We are looking for a Senior Manager to lead the teams behind the Assistant, Agent Studio, and agent extensibility.
• Your job is to turn a fast-growing product into one customers trust and come back to every day:
• Making answers trustworthy.
• Getting more customers to try agents.
• Turning first-time users into daily ones.
• This team is both a platform and a product.
• About half the work is helping engineering teams across Samsara, from Safety to Maintenance, build and launch their own agents.
• The other half is the frameworks those agents run on, used by Samsara teams and customers alike.
• You'll lead about 10 machine learning engineers, applied scientists, and full-stack engineers through two tech leads.
• The individual contributor bench is strong, so your first focus is scaling the product.
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US and Canada.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience managing engineering teams and tech leads.
• Experience across both machine learning and software engineering, including building agentic systems and traditional production software.
• A track record of shipping production systems used at scale by external customers, B2B or B2C.
• Experience building zero-to-one products in a fast-moving environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Requirements

• Agent platform depth: Has designed and scaled an agent platform that other teams build on.
• User-facing AI products: Has built AI products that customers use directly, not only backend agents.
• Growth and activation experience: Has moved activation or retention with recommendations, proactive experiences, or usage loops.
• Answer-quality rigor: Has set up evaluations and quality metrics for LLM-powered products.
• Mixed-team leadership: Is comfortable leading machine learning engineers, applied scientists, and full-stack engineers on one team.
• An advanced degree: A Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.

Benefits

• Flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams.
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
• Professional development stipend.
• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance.
• Above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity.

Company Description

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, enabling organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.

• We improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability for the industries that power the global economy.
• IoT data at a scale few companies can match — 30+ trillion data points a year, 70+ billion miles driven.
• Leaders at every level stay close to the product and the code.
• Fast decisions, limited bureaucracy.
• Roles grow quickly here as the business grows.
• A public company (NYSE: IOT) with the resources and reach of scale, and the agility and pace of a high-growth technology company.