About the role:

Samsara’s Customer Outcomes organization is responsible for the end-to-end customer journey, ensuring that customers receive the business value intended through their investment and that they become strong advocates for our platform and services.

We’re searching for a driven, entrepreneurial leader to lead and drive the Strategic Customer Success strategy. This team of Strategic Customer Success Managers is responsible for maximizing the value a customer receives from their Samsara deployment. With 20,000+ fleets served worldwide, the Customer Success Team represents a large opportunity to deepen and expand Samsara’s customer relationships and significantly contribute to sales objectives. This is a highly visible role that will work closely with Sales, Product Management, Technical Support, Finance, and Operations.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Every phone call you answer and every email you send can affect whether truck drivers deliver goods on time and without accidents, whether students get dropped off safely from school, or whether power gets restored quickly after a natural disaster.
• You thrive the most when solving problems: Our constantly expanding technology and the complexities faced by our customers provide an exciting range of challenges for our Customer Success teams. With a growth mindset and a desire to learn, your team will strategically partner with our customers to find unique solutions to help keep their operations safe, efficient, and sustainable.
• You are a natural relationship builder: Whether the relationship is with our customers or with cross-functional teams in Samsara, you are in constant communication and collaboration with key stakeholders to win as a team.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. This Customer Success team is still shaping its future and you will have plenty of autonomy and opportunities to master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by the best and brightest professionals out there.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara.

In this role, you will:

• Define and drive strategy for the Strategic Customer Success team
• Hire, develop, and retain a team of Strategic Customer Success Managers across the US and Canada
• Own the overall success of our largest customers, ensuring a world-class customer experience
• Manage and prioritize work based on sales and activity pipelines as well as data analysis across teams
• Collaborate cross-functionally to rapidly improve the customer journey
• Do what it takes to deliver upon our commitments and forge enduring customer partnerships
• 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

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Structured thinker with the ability to create and execute a cohesive strategy
• Track record of working cross functionally to gain consensus from multiple stakeholders and create step changes in business operations
• Strong empathy towards customers and passion for revenue and growth
• Deep understanding of value drivers in recurring revenue SaaS business models
• Strong project management, analytic, and organizational skills
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills