Senior Strategic Implementation Consultant

NextGenEnergyJobs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working model

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Strategic Implementation Consultant to guide enterprise customers through onboarding, adoption, and renewal of our IoT platform. You will own the customer relationship, coordinate across Sales, Support, Sales Engineering and Product, and ensure value delivery for fleets and industrial assets.

This remote role supports US-based customers (excluding SF Bay, NYC, and DC metros) with travel up to 10% and a focus on executive-level communication, problem solving, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a technology consulting or customer-facing technology implementation role.
• Enterprise SaaS experience and executive stakeholder management.
• Strong prioritization, emotional intelligence, and high-visibility communication skills.
• Experience with or supporting large-scale business solutions at Fortune 500 companies.
• Bachelor’s degree from a 4-year institution.

Responsibilities

• Advise and guide strategic customers to adopt Samsara and gain business value.
• Own the customer relationship through onboarding, adoption, advocacy, and renewal.
• Deploy and drive adoption of Samsara IoT solutions for enterprise customers.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Support, Sales Engineering and Product.
• Lead training sessions and demonstrate Samsara’s technology to executives and day-to-day users.
• Track implementation progress, adoption metrics, and account health.
• Mentor the wider Customer Success and Support teams.

Skills

Executive stakeholder management

Client-facing implementation

SaaS implementation

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (4-year institution)

Job description

Senior Strategic Implementation Consultant

At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Samsara’s Strategic Customer Success team advises and guides our largest customers, ensuring they adopt Samsara and continuously gain business value from our products. We are the trusted point of contact for Samsara’s strategic customers throughout their lifecycle: onboarding, adoption, advocacy, and renewal.
• In this role, you will be part of our Implementation team, responsible for helping Enterprise customers deploy and adopt our IoT solutions for their fleet and industrial assets. Picking up where our sales teams leave off, you will own the customer relationship and ensure a successful deployment of Samsara's solution. Your customers span the entire range of businesses that power our economy, including trucking and transportation, food and beverage, passenger transit, utilities, school buses, and many others. All the while building relationships with the customer, helping them learn our system, and overall ensuring a successful customer relationship.
• Your role will be cross-functional in nature, working alongside and connecting Sales, Support, Sales Engineering and Product, enabling you to experience multiple aspects of a fast growing company from within.
• This role requires exceptional customer-facing communication skills, the ability to quickly understand a customer's business, and comfort explaining technology products to both executives and day-to-day users. In addition to this, you will 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.
• This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
• May require travel to customer sites up to 10% of the time, including overnight stays.
• Be on the front-lines and ensure our customers increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of their operations with our IoT platform.
• Manage the deployment of Samsara technology to large-scale customers, enabling customers to achieve quick time to value in their investment.
• Create launch plans and a roadmap to increase product usage.
• Track implementation progress, participation, product adoption, and account health.
• Run training sessions, demonstrate Samsara’s technology, and work through challenges with executives and day-to-day users of the system across numerous use cases.
• Juggle multiple customer engagements in parallel and work cross-functionally to deliver an exceptional experience for our customers.
• Serve as a mentor to the wider Customer Success and Support teams.
• Deeply understand the Samsara platform’s capabilities and explain them to customers of all types.
• 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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in a technology consulting and/or customer-facing technology implementation role. Enterprise SaaS experience preferred.
• This is a demanding position with high internal visibility, that requires strong priority management and high emotional intelligence.
• Exceptional executive stakeholder management and communications, emotional intelligence, and prioritization given internal visibility of this role to all levels of the organization, including Samsara’s C-suite.
• Experience supporting or working with technical products.
• Solutions-oriented with strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent consultative skills with experience in end to end system implementations.
• Proven track record of building trust and communicating effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders: executives, Product and Engineering leadership, day-to-day users of our software.
• Passion for going above and beyond the call of duty, taking initiative, and thriving in a fast-paced, change-heavy environment.
• Diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through customer issues.
• Bachelor’s degree from a 4-year institution.
• Strong bias for action, the ability to think big, with insistence on high standards.
• Experience serving and supporting large-scale business solutions at Fortune 500 companies.
• The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Learn more about our total rewards and benefits below.
• $109,480
• —
• $165,600 USD
• 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.