Director, Insurance Partnerships

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Partner Sales

This role is for a Director of Insurance Partnerships at Samsara, a company that provides a Connected Operations Cloud platform. The role focuses on building and scaling relationships with insurance brokers and carriers to drive sales and adoption of Samsara's technology, particularly its telematics and dashcam solutions that improve safety. The position involves strategy, go-to-market alignment, refining value propositions, demonstrating safety outcomes using product and insurance data, and building/managing a team. While Samsara's products leverage data and potentially AI/ML for safety insights, this specific role is centered on business development and partnerships, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Scale Global Insurance Relationships
  2. Drive GTM Alignment
  3. Refine our Insurance Value Proposition
  4. Demonstrate Safety Outcomes
  5. Build & Scale a Team

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of experience in insurance, partnerships, business development, or consulting, or sales.
  • Experience architecting mutual value props and developing strong partnerships from the ground up.
  • Experience working with telematics data, ideally in an insurance context
  • Ability to navigate multi-stakeholder deals across several companies.
  • Proven ability to create structure, process, and commercial models.
  • Ability to align cross-functional teams toward a common partnership goal.

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working with telematics data, ideally in an insurance context