Senior/Principal Product Manager - Safety AI

About the Role

The Safety team at Samsara is at the forefront of applying AI to enhance safety in physical operations globally. We develop intelligent systems leveraging computer vision, VLMs, sensor data, environmental context, and behavioral patterns to detect and prevent accidents. We are seeking an entrepreneurial and technically-minded Product Manager to elevate our rapidly expanding Video-based Safety business. This high-ownership role involves launching and scaling new safety products, utilizing data from millions of deployed devices.

In this position, you will define and build core components of our perception and prediction stack, deepening our understanding of road conditions, environmental factors, and surrounding vehicles to influence driver behavior. You will be encouraged to experiment boldly, challenge conventional thinking, and demonstrate the transformative power of AI in complex operational environments. We are looking for a candidate with a strong customer-obsession and a passion for impacting the physical world, ideally with experience as a founder or early startup engineer/PM, deep experience applying AI/ML to customer problems, and a track record of leading at-scale products. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Design teams, and cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to propel our video-based safety product into its next phase of growth.

In this role, you will:

• Define and lead the roadmap for core components of Samsara’s perception stack running on millions of vehicles worldwide.
• Develop AI/ML models that provide a comprehensive understanding of driver behavior and crash risk, as well as the interventions required to reduce that risk.
• Work with talented engineering teams to conceptualize and launch new safety products, contributing to a fast-growing, at-scale business with $1 Billion+ in ARR.
• Build relationships with customers at the forefront of physical operations to deeply understand their business and needs, informing our roadmap.
• Lead by example in using AI tools to accelerate product development, customer research, and decision-making.
• 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:

• 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.

An Ideal Candidate Also Has:

• 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.