Technical Program Manager - Enterprise Security

samsara; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working model

Remote options

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Technical Program Manager within its Enterprise Security team to drive strategic security initiatives across product, platform, and compliance domains. You will partner with engineering, security, and BizTech to deliver scalable programs and AI-enabled processes.

You will embed with cross-functional teams, translate technical details for executives, and help shape roadmaps, releases, and audits while promoting customer success and growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical project and program management for highly impactful, cross-functional Security projects and report on execution progress
• Support engineering leads operationally to ensure smooth, on-time delivery of key initiatives
• Partner with stakeholders to scope cross-functional projects and drive them to delivery
• Communicate current status of enterprise security and compliance initiatives across technical and non-technical audiences
• Help teams and individuals plan and execute roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs
• Assist with security audit efforts to reduce risk and satisfy compliance frameworks
• Improve measurable KPIs and surrounding processes for the Security team
• Incorporate new AI technologies and ways of working to scale processes and visibility
• Contribute to a community of practice for program management and reinforce cultural principles around customer success, long-term thinking, growth mindset, inclusion, and team wins

Job description

Role overview

A Technical Program Manager role embedded within an Enterprise Security organization that supports a connected operations platform for physical industries such as transportation, construction, field services, and manufacturing. The TPM partners across Product Security, Platform Security and Compliance, Detection and Response, Biztech, and Engineering to drive strategic security initiatives, build scalable processes, and bring AI-driven approaches to program management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical project and program management for highly impactful, cross-functional Security projects and report on execution progress
• Support engineering leads operationally to ensure smooth, on-time delivery of key initiatives
• Partner with stakeholders to scope cross-functional projects and drive them to delivery
• Communicate current status of enterprise security and compliance initiatives across technical and non-technical audiences
• Help teams and individuals plan and execute roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs
• Assist with security audit efforts to reduce risk and satisfy compliance frameworks
• Improve measurable KPIs and surrounding processes for the Security team
• Incorporate new AI technologies and ways of working to scale processes and visibility
• Contribute to a community of practice for program management and reinforce cultural principles around customer success, long-term thinking, growth mindset, inclusion, and team wins

Requirements

• The source listing for minimum requirements was incomplete, but the role is described as supporting an expanding Enterprise Security organization, so candidates should have a program management background working alongside engineering and security stakeholders across multiple workstreams
• Comfort scoping cross-functional initiatives, identifying risks, and communicating clearly to mixed audiences
• Ability to embed with technical teams and translate between engineering detail and executive reporting

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible working model with in-office and remote options depending on role and location
• Open to candidates residing in the U.S. except the San Francisco Bay Metro, NYC Metro, and Washington, D.C. Metro areas
• The source listing referenced additional benefits and parental leave plans but the full benefits section was truncated in the recovered text