Remote Principal, R&D Learning & Enablement

Samsara Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 136,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote model

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara Inc. is seeking a Principal, R&D Learning Products & Enablement to define the future of learning for its research and development teams. This senior individual-contributor role moves between strategy, technical product understanding, learning-product design, and end-to-end program delivery.

You will build the R&D Enablement roadmap, create tools, automations, knowledge solutions, and learning experiences in collaboration with global teams and external vendors to drive adoption and impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in technical product management, technical program management, developer enablement, technical learning, learning technology, product enablement, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working directly with software engineering, product, data, or AI teams to deliver technical products, programs, or enablement solutions.
• Experience supporting Product, Engineering, Design, or another highly technical organization and developing a credible understanding of how technical employees work.
• Demonstrated ability to understand emerging technologies, developer tools, AI platforms, and technical workflows and translate them into practical adoption and enablement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Define the R&D learning-products and enablement strategy, roadmap, service model, and measures of success by developing a representative understanding of the needs of R&D employees and leaders at all levels.
• Build trusted relationships across R&D and conduct discovery to identify the most important capability, knowledge, adoption, and performance needs.
• Diagnose whether the appropriate solution is a learning experience, structured knowledge, workflow change, automation, self‑service tool, community, manager resource, or another intervention.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, AI models, developer tools, and changes in how technical teams work; translate those developments into practical recommendations for how R&D employees can use AI and agents, validate their outputs, and determine where automation is appropriate versus where human judgment, expertise, or coordination remains essential.
• Build alongside R&D employees, technical leaders, Business Technology, Security, enterprise AI teams, and external technology providers to move high‑value ideas from concept to practical tools, workflows, prototypes, and scalable adoption.
• Translate complex technical concepts into scalable learning products, developer‑onboarding experiences, knowledge resources, playbooks, tools, automations, and communities that help R&D employees learn and self‑serve.
• Create and test functional prototypes, tools, and workflow automations using AI‑assisted development environments, APIs, low‑code platforms, and other appropriate technologies.
• Develop clear product and program requirements, user stories, workflows, success criteria, and implementation plans for solutions requiring support from Engineering or Business Technology.
• Lead complex programs from discovery through launch and adoption, establishing clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, communications, feedback loops, and decision points across interdependent teams.
• Make informed recommendations about what to build, configure, buy, integrate, transfer, scale, or stop.
• Own and continuously improve R&D and developer onboarding, ensuring employees can efficiently access the systems, knowledge, resources, and communities required to become productive.
• Define outcome measures that go beyond attendance and satisfaction, using adoption, behavior, capability, time-to-proficiency, self-service, efficiency, quality, and business evidence to determine whether solutions should continue, change, scale, transfer, or stop.
• Serve as the senior functional leader for R&D Enablement, creating clear ownership, reusable practices, and execution leverage across employees and partners contributing to the roadmap.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to more junior team members and partners while leading through expertise and influence rather than formal authority.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as we scale globally and across new offices.

Job description

Samsara Inc. is seeking a Principal, R&D Learning Products & Enablement to define the future of learning for its research and development teams. This senior individual-contributor role moves between strategy, technical product understanding, learning-product design, and end-to-end program delivery.

You will build the R&D Enablement roadmap, create tools, automations, knowledge solutions, and learning experiences in collaboration with global teams and external vendors to drive adoption and impact.