Senior Hardware Product Manager - Smart Trailer Connected Equipment

About the role:

We are looking for a Sr. Hardware Product Manager to join our team. In this role, you will help drive hardware products to market including strategic market development, product concepts and roadmap, product requirements, creating business plans, market positioning, sales readiness and product test & launch. We stress the importance to think creatively and work collaboratively with cross functional team members to make excellent tradeoffs and conclusions. As a Sr. Hardware Product Manager, you will champion the voice of the customer as well as ensuring the products are developed in alignment with the company's growth strategy.

Must be willing to travel up to 25% of working time.

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, 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. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will:

• Have responsibility for building and executing our Hardware roadmap to enable our platform growth across the Connected Equipment product line
• Drive hardware product definition for a range of advanced IoT devices, gateways and associated cabling and accessories
• You’ll learn about our customers’ operations, identify the most meaningful problems that we could solve for them and understand their strategy for the future
• You will develop a product vision that maximizes the impact Samsara can make on the market
• Drive and own field validation and product launch activities in collaboration with Marketing, Engineering and Operations
• Understand use cases, personas and market requirements and communicate efficiently to the rest of the organization
• Work and partner with Applications Product Management leaders to understand the broader business and customer needs, and enable optimized solutions spanning the cloud and edge devices
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 5+ years in a product management role
• BS in Engineering or Computer Science
• History of launching commercially successful IT and/or IoT hardware products
• Familiarity with numerous industrial and IT applications, ideally with telematics, sensors, wireless and edge AI attributes
• Excellent business acumen to navigate tradeoffs in features, cost, development risk and performance
• Curiosity and a bias towards action while gleaning customer insights from field inspection, interviews, research and data analytics
• Excellent communication skills
• Must be comfortable presenting to customers and internal audiences at all levels
• Experience managing commercial product lines at scale; $100M+ company or product line revenue

An ideal candidate also has:

• Knowledge of industrial IOT systems and CAN bus systems a plus
• MBA a plus