Senior Creative Program Manager

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Creative Program Manager to join our team at Samsara, the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud. This role is remote and open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

Responsibilities

Creative Program & Project Management

• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional creative programs - from intake and brief review through scoping, production, review, approval, and 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 timely status updates to stakeholders and senior leaders, and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• Partner with Creative leadership to run regular traffic, prioritization, and creative review cadences.

Intake, Capacity & Resource Planning

• Run and continuously improve the creative intake process, ensuring briefs are clear, complete, and tied to business goals before work begins.
• Build and maintain capacity and demand forecasts across internal designers, video and digital design 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.

Stakeholder & Executive Communication

• Serve as the bridge between marketing strategy and creative execution, aligning with PMM, Campaigns, Brand, Events, and Web on priorities, timelines, and approval frameworks.
• Communicate program health, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership clearly and concisely, both in writing and in presentations.
• Facilitate team discussions, resolve conflicts, and remove impediments to delivery.

Process, Systems & AI Enablement

• Define, document, and scale creative workflows, SOPs, and governance (briefing, versioning, approvals, asset management) that improve speed and quality.
• Administer and optimize the creative work-management stack (e.g., Airtable, Jira, Asana, Workfront) and build dashboards that report 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.

Requirements

• 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 - written, verbal, and presentation - including the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving obstacles and risks in partnership with teams and stakeholders

We Offer

• Competitive Salary: Annual Base Salary ranging from $115,727.50 to $175,050 USD
• Total Rewards: Comprehensive compensation program including base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles)
• Flexible Working Model: Embrace of a flexible, employee-led remote model with options for in-person work where operational requirements align
• Professional Development: Opportunities for rapid career development and mastery of your craft in a hyper-growth environment
• Comprehensive Benefits: Health and parental leave plans, professional development stipend, and more

About the Company

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.

Join us to define the future of physical operations and be part of a team shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring.