Director, Product Partnerships

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

This role is for a Director of Product Partnerships focused on building and activating an OEM Go to Market strategy. The individual will be responsible for developing foundational playbooks, influencing strategic relationships with OEM executive leadership, orchestrating ecosystem activation, building scalable programs, and managing a team of Partner Account Managers to drive incremental revenue. The role requires expertise in co-sell motions, complex deal orchestration, and a builder mentality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive OEM Go to Market Partner Strategy: Build the foundational playbook for how Samsara effectively partners to go to market with OEMs.
  2. Influence Strategic Relationships: Develop and influence top-down relationships with executive leadership at key partners to align objectives.
  3. Orchestrate Ecosystem Activation: Partner across Samsara to develop a mutual Samsara/OEM value prop and design GTM motions that motivate our teams to sell together.
  4. Build Scalable Programs: Develop the program that allows Samsara to partner with OEMs in a coordinated, repeatable fashion.
  5. Build & Scale a Team: Build and manage a high-performing team of Partner Account Managers focused specifically on OEM growth and activation

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, consulting or sales, with experience building new partner motions and high-performing teams.
  • Expertise in co-sell motion: Experience architecting mutual value props and driving multi-layered "sell-with" and “sell-through” partnership motions that deliver consistent pipeline.
  • Complex Deal Orchestration: Ability to navigate multi-stakeholder deals across several companies.
  • Builder Mentality: Proven ability to create structure, process, and commercial models where none exist.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Ability to align cross-functional teams toward a common channel goal.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with OEMs in a go-to-market or strategy capacity.
  • Understanding of OEM pre delivery installation, routes to market, & dealer networks.
  • Experience in B2B technology or within a B2B technology ecosystem.

What the JD emphasized

  • OEM Go to Market strategy
  • build and lead a team of Partner Account Managers
  • OEM growth and activation