Senior Creative Program Manager

Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness IoT data for actionable insights. Samsara helps improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of physical operations across industries such as agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing.

The Senior Creative Program Manager is the operational engine behind Marketing's creative output, owning how creative work is taken, prioritized, resourced, and delivered across brand, campaigns, product launches, web, and events. This role combines program management rigor, creative-process fluency, and executive communication to ensure the right work gets done on time and at a high quality bar. The ideal candidate has experience in an in-house creative studio, brand team, or creative agency and is energized by building scalable systems, including AI-enabled workflows.

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional creative programs from intake through launch, with clear visibility into scope, timelines, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Develop program plans for major brand campaigns, product launches, events, and web initiatives, translating Marketing priorities into actionable creative roadmaps.
• Track milestones and deliverables, provide status updates to stakeholders and senior leaders, and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• Run and continuously improve the creative intake process, ensuring briefs are clear, complete, and tied to business goals.
• Build and maintain capacity and demand forecasts across internal teams, freelancers, and agency partners; recommend trade-offs and escalate constraints.
• Manage creative vendor and agency relationships, including SOWs, timelines, asset delivery, and budget tracking.
• Serve as the bridge between marketing strategy and creative execution, aligning with PMM, Campaigns, Brand, Events, and Web on priorities, timelines, and approval frameworks.
• Define, document, and scale creative workflows, SOPs, and governance (briefing, versioning, approvals, asset management).
• Administer and optimize the creative work-management stack (e.g., Airtable, Jira, Asana, Workfront) and build dashboards reporting on throughput, cycle time, utilization, and on-time delivery.
• Identify and implement AI-powered tools and automations that reduce manual coordination work and improve creative delivery.

• 7+ years of program or project management experience in an in-house creative studio, brand/marketing team, or creative agency.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder creative programs (brand campaigns, product launches, events, web, video, or content) from brief through delivery.
• Experience building and running creative intake, resourcing, capacity planning, and review/approval processes.
• Proficiency with work-management tools and methodologies (e.g., Airtable, Jira, Asana, Workfront, Google Sheets), and experience building dashboards or reporting on delivery performance.
• Experience integrating AI tools into program management or creative workflows to increase efficiency.
• Strong understanding of the creative production process, including design, copy, video, and web, and of realistic timelines and scoping.
• Experience managing agency partners, freelancers, and external vendors, including scopes of work and budgets.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Annual base salary range: $115,727.50—$175,050 USD. This role is also eligible for an initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff, and ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance. Samsara offers a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more.

Apply via the Samsara careers page. For accommodations, email accessibleinterviewing@samsara.com.