Director, Product Marketing - Frontiers

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$148K/yr – $265K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead regional/vertical product marketing at Samsara to drive bookings, messaging, and field enablement across regions and sectors.

  • Own regional and vertical GTM strategies and launch plans.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in B2B SaaS product/solutions marketing and cross-functional leadership.
  • Standout: Proven ability to accelerate pipeline and enable field teams at scale.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect Audience-Specific GTM Strategies: Develop and execute solution plans based on deep understanding of target markets, regional landscapes, and vertical-specific issues.
  • Own Contextualized Messaging: Build positioning and narratives that unify Samsara’s platform vision in specific regions and segments, ensuring it reflects their priorities and "speaks their language".
  • Drive Pipeline and Bookings: Partner closely with Sales and Marketing to develop content and campaigns specifically designed to achieve bookings targets for your assigned regions and verticals.
  • Lead Regional & Vertical Product Launches: Own the launch of regional- and vertical-specific capabilities, ensuring the roadmap is technically sound and aligns with field enablement.
  • Develop Deep Buyer Insights: Identify key buyers and develop personas to understand the buying journey and how they evaluate technology decisions.
  • Empower the Field: Create high-priority enablement content, including playbooks, battlecards, and presentations.
  • Analyze Market Performance: Use data to craft and adjust strategies to improve performance and velocity.
  • 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.
  • Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team

Requirements

  • Experience: 7+ years in Product and/or Solutions Marketing (B2B SaaS preferred) and 5+ years of experience building and leading high-performing teams.
  • Leadership: Proven success in management and development, with the ability to lead cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, and Sales.
  • Customer Focus: Customer-centric marketer with a focus on pipeline generation and acceleration, and proven track record of reducing cognitive load for GTM teams and customers alike.
  • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to distill complex technical ideas into bold, strategic narratives.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree required.

Preferred

  • Solution Mindset: Experience integrating multiple offerings into a broader solution that creates additional value for buyers.
  • Relevant Experience with our Regions & Verticals: Experience managing regionally distributed teams or launching products in international markets like EMEA or Mexico. Experience marketing or selling into Public Sector a plus.
  • Agility: Ability to thrive in ambiguity and lead without a playbook in a fast-moving, outcome-focused environment.
  • Advanced Degree: MBA or relevant Master’s degree preferred.

Benefits

  • Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.
  • Flexible Working
  • At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely.
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Samsara

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Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform, which enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. With tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe, Samsara is a proud technology partner to the people who keep our global economy running, including the world’s leading organizations across construction, transportation and warehousing, field services, manufacturing, retail, logistics, and the public sector. The company's mission is to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy.

Founded in 2015
San Francisco, California, USA
5.1K employees (282 in marketing)
81% recommend to a friend
96% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$639.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.2%
Direct
73.1%
Referral
4.4%
Social
0.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
204 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
2.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$930M
Last Raise
$700M
Secondary Market, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2020
    Secondary Market
  • May 2020
    Series F • $700M
  • Dec 2018
    Series E • $100M

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