Product Designer

Company: Samsara
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

Samsara, founded in 2015, is a leader in Industrial IoT and our mission is to increase the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of the operations that power our economy. Our solutions combine hardware and software to bring real-time visibility, analytics, and AI to operations across various industries. Samsara's fast-growing team is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in San Jose, Atlanta, and London. Our team has raised $930M from Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, AllianceBernstein Holding LP, Franklin Templeton, General Atlantic, Sands Capital Management and Warburg Pincus LLC. At Samsara, we welcome all. All sizes, colors, cultures, sexes, beliefs, religions, ages, people. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us solve complex problems. We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Samsara is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact. About the role As a Product Designer at Samsara, you will design features that our customers use every day to run their infrastructure. We're looking for someone who is excited to shape the experience of our platform across industries such as transportation and logistics, construction, food and beverage, government and more.-- In this role, you will:

• Talk to customers frequently to understand their workflows
• Collaborate with Research, Product, Engineering and Customer Success to identify customer needs, explore design solutions and deliver value
• Produce well-crafted designs for features that make our customers operations more efficient, safe and sustainable
• Articulate your perspective and provide compelling rationale for design decisions
• Build strong team relationships
• Push design quality higher through a focus on feedback, iteration and attention to details
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara's cultural principles (Obsess Over the Customer, Build for the Long Term, Growth Mindset) as we scale globally and across new offices An ideal candidate has:
  • A portfolio showcasing your approach to solving problems and your standard for design quality
  • Effective interaction, visual design, problem solving and communication skills
  • Experience designing consumer or business facing experiences for web and mobile
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners to ship successful products
  • The ability to prototype ideas to explore and effectively convey design solutions
  • A drive to continuously improve yourself, your team members, and product experiences Working at Samsara has its perks: for all global employees, we provide private medical and dental insurance plus growth and development opportunities, as well as regular virtual team and company events. In the US we offer flexible vacation time, EMEA employees receive 25 vacation days plus national bank holidays. Post-COVID we'll be back in our global offices with numerous in-office perks. Regarding COVID-19 With the spread of COVID-19, Samsara's global offices will remain closed until further notice with the exception of employees that require access to hardware and lab equipment.-- Our primary concern is for the health and well-being of our employees as well as candidates. We have transitioned all interviews and onboarding to be conducted virtually via Zoom video conferencing. Employees are also able to work from countries and states where Samsara is a registered entity through June 2021. All employees are expected to return to our offices when they reopen with the exception of field-based roles. If you have any questions or concerns before applying, feel free to contact us at jobs@samsara.com. How did you hear about this opportunity? (Check all that apply) --*
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    Employee referred. At Samsara, we encourage employees to bring their whole selves to work (this includes applicants, too!) Feel free to share your preferred name and pronouns (she/her, they/them, he/him, ze/zir, etc.).
    Demographic Questions (US, EMEA, Mexico, Canada) Diversity is critical at Samsara . Creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace is an important part of our mission that fosters greater creativity, innovation, and connection to the communities we serve. And we will not compromise ---to the detriment of that mission. So whatever your size, color, culture, gender, beliefs, religion, or age, know that you are welcome here. It is what makes you unique that makes Samsara stronger. That mission starts here by building a robust, diverse talent pool across every team at Samsara. Below is a set of demographic questions for you to review. While your decision to provide demographic information is entirely yours, please know that we use the data that we collect internally to better track against our mission of creating a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace. Your responses will not be associated with your specific application and will not in any way be used in your specific hiring process. The responses will also be anonymized and aggregated to help us comply with regulatory requirements (e.g., federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity and other compliance requirements in the United States; the UK Equality Act 2010; the French Code du Travail; the German Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz within Europe; etc). Thank you in advance for helping to make Samsara the diverse and inclusive environment we strive to be.-- How do you identify? (gender identity) *
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