About the role:
Samsara’s Legal team strives to create value and ensure that Samsara meets its mission by providing accessible and business-oriented legal guidance. We do so through creative problem-solving, excellence, and transparency in execution while exhibiting good judgment in providing ethical and empathetic partnerships across the business.
Samsara is seeking a resourceful and team-oriented project manager to help build and support a growing Product Legal function at a fast-paced technology company. In this role, you will manage and drive projects across all areas that the Product Legal team supports, including but not limited to intellectual property, regulatory compliance, privacy, and general product counseling. You will work closely with the Product Legal team and other legal functions and business teams to develop, implement, and maintain appropriate policies and procedures for the company. You will partner with the Product Legal team to oversee outside counsel and manage budgets.
You are someone who loves to investigate the technical details of a complex project or product, identify and assess risks, and propose realistic solutions that take into account competing business interests. You will help create and implement processes to ensure alignment with the Company’s values and compliance with evolving laws and regulations. You possess a strong sense of ethics and a refined risk tolerance. Your diligence, judgment, and discretion make you a trusted counterpart in sensitive environments.
Our most successful team members excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and can drive projects of varying complexity in collaboration with multiple teams. They embrace new challenges and the unexpected and can clearly distill their analysis into actionable and scalable guidance, always in consideration of the diverse needs of their business stakeholders. They are willing to jump in to assist their colleagues on any project, large or small, regardless of whether it falls within their scope of expertise.
This role is open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin metro, California, Chicago metro, Connecticut, Dallas metro, Denver metro, Houston metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, and Washington DC metro.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
Click here to learn more about Samsara's cultural philosophy.
In this role, you will:
- Manage a variety of cross-functional projects with the Product, Engineering, and broader Legal teams to support the Product Legal function, including those related to product privacy, product regulatory compliance, and general product counseling issues
- Support Samsara’s intellectual property portfolio, such as managing patent and trademark application and docketing processes, developing a comprehensive open source management program, and handling the budget
- Oversee legal issues related to internal and external product-related documentation
- Drive process improvements to support a fast-growing company
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 5+ years of project management experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience independently driving complex projects from start to finish in a broad range of subject matters
- Experience developing strong cross-functional relationships across Product, Engineering, or general R&D teams
- Exceptional communication and organizational skills and strong attention to detail
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience working with Product and/or Engineering teams at a SaaS technology company
- Experience supporting a legal team
- Experience managing an intellectual property program
- Experience with Google Suite, Atlassian products, IPFolio, and Microsoft Office
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