Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Release Marketing & Pmm Operations

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Product Marketing

This role is for a Sr. Product Marketing Manager focused on Release Marketing and PMM Operations. The core responsibility is to build and manage the operational foundation for the Product Marketing team, including owning the product launch plan, driving cross-functional alignment, coordinating execution, measuring launch effectiveness, and evolving the launch playbook. A key aspect is leveraging AI to reimagine processes and customer experiences. While AI is mentioned as a tool to improve processes, the role itself is not directly building or shipping AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the Product Launch Plan: Partner with R&D and PMM stakeholders to gather the full feature list, organize features into coherent narratives, and tier them based on strategic priority. Map launches to key market moments, and maintain the master launch plan as the single source of truth.
  2. Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Run alignment sessions across Product, GTM, and Marketing leadership — owning the materials, driving to clear decisions, and tracking open items such as naming through to resolution.
  3. Coordinate Execution Across Tiers: Own the marketing planning and coordination meetings that keep launches on track. Partner with Demand Gen, Enablement, and Marketing leads to optimize timing, reduce messaging overlap, and amplify impact.
  4. Measure Launch Effectiveness: Track program-level metrics including comms engagement, sentiment, and product adoption. Provide regular reporting to PMM leadership and surface insights that inform future strategy.
  5. Evolve the Launch Playbook: Maintain a prioritized backlog of process gaps, convene cross-functional working groups to address root causes, and lead ongoing research into how Samsara's launch approach should evolve — especially by leveraging AI.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years in Product Marketing, Release Marketing, Product Ops or related role
  • Proven ability to design and implement scalable processes and programs in a fast-moving environment
  • Strong track record of driving alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing organizations
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity, building without a playbook, and iterating quickly
  • A track record of using technology – especially AI – to reimagine process and customer experiences
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice to have

  • Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs with competing timelines and dependencies
  • Has helped a PMM team level up through operational improvements, shared rituals, or team programming
  • Can craft compelling messaging and identify content that will resonate or not with audiences

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-first Mindset
  • building without a playbook