[Hiring] Senior/Principal Product Manager - Safety AI @Samsara

Role Description

The Safety team is pioneering the application of AI to make physical operations safer at global scale. We build intelligent systems that combine:

• Computer vision
• VLMs
• Sensor data
• Environmental context
• Behavioral patterns

We’re looking for an entrepreneurial, technically-minded Product Manager to take one of our largest and fastest-growing businesses - Video-based Safety - to the next level. This is a high-ownership role launching and scaling new safety products for our customers, leveraging data from our millions of deployed devices.

In this role, you’ll:

• Define and build the core components of our perception and prediction stack.
• Deepen our understanding of the road, environment, and surrounding vehicles.
• Use that understanding to change driver behavior.
• Experiment boldly and challenge conventional thinking.
• Demonstrate the transformative power of AI in complex operational environments.

We’re looking for someone with a high degree of customer-obsession and a passion for changing the physical world. The ideal candidate has:

• Experience as a founder or early startup engineer/PM.
• Deep experience applying AI/ML to solve customer problems.
• Led at-scale products.

You'll collaborate closely with our dedicated teams in Engineering and Design, as well as work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to propel our video-based safety product to its next phase of growth.

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

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a product management and/or product-oriented engineering role.
• Track record of delivering business results for both 0-to-1 and at-scale products.
• Demonstrated experience and passion working on products that leverage state of the art AI/ML/CV.
• Strong technical background, ability to grasp technical concepts, and establish credibility with engineers.
• Experience balancing priorities across a complex set of business goals and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Deep experience creating and growing products leveraging video data.
• Facility with development and deployment of AI/ML models, including training and evaluation pipelines.
• Understanding or experience with foundation models, model quantization, and distillation.
• Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, physical operations, or on products with a vertically integrated hardware + software stack.
• Familiarity with B2B SaaS products and working with B2B sales teams.

Benefits

• Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and ensure workers return home safely.
• 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.
• 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.
• At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.