Senior Creative Program Manager

Seattle, WA (Unknown)

$116K/yr – $175K/yrSenior Level7+ years exp

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional creative programs and translate Marketing priorities into actionable roadmaps, with oversight of scope, timelines, risks, and stakeholder alignment.

  • Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional creative programs from intake to launch
  • Lead program planning for brand campaigns, product launches, events, and web initiatives
  • Partner with Creative leadership to run traffic, prioritization, and review cadences

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional creative programs — from intake and brief review through scoping, production, review, approval, and launch — with clear visibility into scope, timelines, dependencies, and resource needs.
  • Develop program plans for major brand campaigns, product launches, events, and web initiatives, translating Marketing priorities into actionable creative roadmaps.
  • Track milestones and deliverables, provide timely status updates to stakeholders and senior leaders, and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
  • Partner with Creative leadership to run regular traffic, prioritization, and creative review cadences.
  • Run and continuously improve the creative intake process, ensuring briefs are clear, complete, and tied to business goals before work begins.
  • Build and maintain capacity and demand forecasts across internal designers, video and digital design teams, freelancers, and agency partners; recommend trade-offs and escalate constraints.
  • Manage creative vendor and agency relationships, including SOWs, timelines, asset delivery, and budget tracking.
  • Serve as the bridge between marketing strategy and creative execution, aligning with PMM, Campaigns, Brand, Events, and Web on priorities, timelines, and approval frameworks.
  • Communicate program health, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership clearly and concisely, both in writing and in presentations.
  • Facilitate team discussions, resolve conflicts, and remove impediments to delivery.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of program or project management experience in an in-house creative studio, brand/marketing team, or creative agency
  • Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder creative programs (brand campaigns, product launches, events, web, video, or content) from brief through delivery
  • Experience building and running creative intake, resourcing, capacity planning, and review/approval processes
  • Proficiency with work-management tools and methodologies (e.g., Airtable, Jira, Asana, Workfront, Google Sheets), and experience building dashboards or reporting on delivery performance
  • Experience integrating AI tools into program management or creative workflows to increase efficiency
  • Strong understanding of the creative production process, including design, copy, video, and web, and of realistic timelines and scoping
  • Experience managing agency partners, freelancers, and external vendors, including scopes of work and budgets
  • Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills — written, verbal, and presentation — including the ability to influence senior stakeholders
  • Proactive approach to identifying and resolving obstacles and risks in partnership with teams and stakeholders

Benefits

  • Total Rewards At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time. 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. If you're ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.
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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

Salaries

Posted range

$116K/yr – $175K/yr

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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

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

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