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Principal, R&D Learning Products & Enablement

Samsara· People Experience
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Remote$135.5k - $242kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Senior individual-contributor role focused on defining and delivering learning products and enablement solutions for Samsara's R&D organization, translating emerging technologies and business priorities into scalable capabilities, tools, and experiences that improve R&D performance and adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Define the R&D learning-products and enablement strategy, roadmap, service model, and measures of success by understanding the needs of R&D employees and leaders at all levels.
  • Build trusted relationships across R&D and conduct discovery to identify important capability, knowledge, adoption, and performance needs.
  • Diagnose whether solutions should be learning experiences, structured knowledge, workflow changes, automation, self-service tools, community, manager resources, or other interventions.
  • Stay current on emerging technologies, AI models, developer tools, and changes in how technical teams work; translate developments into practical recommendations for AI usage, validation, and appropriate automation vs human judgment.
  • Collaborate with R&D employees, technical leaders, Business Technology, Security, enterprise AI teams, and external providers to move ideas from concept to prototypes and scalable adoption.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into scalable learning products, onboarding experiences, knowledge resources, playbooks, tools, automations, and communities.
  • Create and test functional prototypes, tools, and workflow automations using AI-assisted environments, APIs, low-code platforms, and related technologies.
  • Develop product and program requirements, user stories, workflows, success criteria, and implementation plans requiring Engineering or Business Technology support.
  • Lead complex programs from discovery through launch and adoption with clear ownership, milestones, risks, and communications.
  • Provide recommendations on build, configure, buy, integrate, transfer, scale, or stop decisions.
  • Own and improve R&D and developer onboarding for efficient access to systems, knowledge, resources, and communities.
  • Define outcome measures beyond attendance; use adoption, capability, time-to-proficiency, self-service, efficiency, quality, and business impact.
  • Serve as senior functional leader for R&D Enablement, establishing reusable practices and execution leverage.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members and partners through influence and expertise.
  • Champion Samsara cultural principles in scale initiatives.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in technical product management, technical program management, developer enablement, technical learning, learning technology, product enablement, or related field.
  • 5+ years working directly with software engineering, product, data, or AI teams to deliver technical products, programs, or enablement solutions.
  • Experience supporting Product, Engineering, Design, or other highly technical organizations and understanding how technical employees work.
  • Ability to understand emerging technologies, developer tools, AI platforms, and translate them into practical adoption and enablement strategies.
  • Experience partnering with engineers, technical leaders, and technology providers to understand capabilities, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
  • Hands-on experience creating functional prototypes, tools, workflows, or self-service solutions using AI-assisted environments, APIs, integrations, low-code platforms, etc.
  • Experience helping technical teams adopt AI-enabled tools and workflows, including use-case identification and governance of outputs.
  • Ability to translate business/user problems into product requirements, user stories, workflows, success criteria, and scalable solutions.
  • Experience defining strategy and roadmaps in ambiguous environments and prioritizing a portfolio.

Skills

Required:Technical product managementTechnical program managementDeveloper enablement
Nice to have:AI/Generative AI experience

Benefits

  • Total Rewards with base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles); RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing refresh opportunities.
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model; professional development stipend; comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
Last updated Oct 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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