Samsara

Strategic Implementation Consultant - Public Sector

Samsara$100K — $135K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in senior Customer Success or account management, with Enterprise SaaS experience preferred.
  • Proven track record of managing complex customer relationships and communications.
  • Experience with technical product support and end-to-end system implementations.
  • Strong consultative skills and emotional intelligence in high-pressure contexts.
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure customer success by enhancing the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of operations.
  • Manage technology deployment for large-scale US Public Sector clients, driving rapid value realization.
  • Create and execute launch plans to maximize product usage and effectiveness.
  • Track and report on implementation progress and account health metrics.
  • Conduct training and demonstrations for diverse customer levels and roles.
  • Simultaneously manage multiple customer projects while collaborating cross-functionally.
  • Deeply understand and effectively communicates Samsara's technology capabilities.

Benefits

  • Flexible, employee-led remote work model with options for in-person collaboration.
  • Professional development stipend to foster continuous learning and growth.
  • Comprehensive health benefits and parental leave plans.
  • Performance-based bonuses and equity options for eligible roles.
  • A culture that supports teamwork, innovation, and long-term career growth.
Full Job Description
About the role:

Samsara's Public Sector 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 government organizations, including K12 schools, departments of transportation, solid waste, public works, fire departments, 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.

Role requires 10-20% travel within the US.

This role is open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin metro, California, Chicago metro, Connecticut, Dallas metro, Denver metro, Houston metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, and Washington DC metro.

You should apply if:
  • You want to impact the US Public Sector: You'll be working with cities, states, school districts, and universities that help run our world. You'll work with them to help them operate more efficiently, safely, and drive citizen value through their services.
  • 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, you 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.

In this role, you will:
  • 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 US Public Sector 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.
  • 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.

Minimum requirements for the role:
  • 6+ years of experience in a senior Customer Success, account management, or strategic consulting role. Enterprise SaaS experience preferred.
  • This is a demanding position with high internal visibility, that requires strong priority management and high emotional intelligence.
  • Experience supporting or working with technical products.
  • 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.
  • Diplomacy, tact, and poise under pressure when working through customer issues.
  • Bachelor's degree from a 4-year institution.

An ideal candidate also has:
  • Strong bias for action, the ability to think big, with insistence on high standards.
  • Experience serving a large and complex customer base in B2B SaaS.
  • Thrives in an unstructured, fast-paced, and change-heavy environment.
  • PMP certification.


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.

Annual Base Salary

$100,406-$135,000 USD

Total Rewards

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.

Flexible Working

At Samsara, we embrace a flexible working model that caters to the diverse needs of our teams. Our offices are open for those who prefer to work in-person and we also support remote work where it aligns with our operational requirements. For certain positions, being close to one of our offices or within a specific geographic area is important to facilitate collaboration, access to resources, or alignment with our service regions. In these cases, the job description will clearly indicate any working location requirements. Our goal is to ensure that all members of our team can contribute effectively, whether they are working on-site, in a hybrid model, or fully remotely. All offers of employment are contingent upon an individual's ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work at the company and in the specified work location, if applicable.

About Samsara

Samsara is a technology company that provides Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to businesses. The company's platform combines hardware, software, and cloud to bring real-time visibility, analytics, and AI to operations. Samsara's products are used in a variety of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and energy. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Samsara
Size
2,000 employees
Market Cap
$6.2 billion
Industry
Founded
2015
NASDAQ

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