Hybrid Senior Manager, Information Technology

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About the role

  • Lead and own the technology and processes that enable Samsara employees to do their best work at the India office
  • Provide on-site managerial support for Tier 1 duties to 1 on-site India office operations specialist (helpdesk, onboarding, inventory, device recovery)
  • Provide on-site managerial support for Tier 2 duties to 2-3 India-based IT specialists handling escalated IT Helpdesk tickets (OKTA, Google, Atlassian, Slack, and other SaaS tooling)
  • Supervise a small but growing engineering team in India overseeing critical IT automation, AI, and DevOps projects
  • Supervise evaluation, innovation, development, and implementation of internal SaaS engineering automation systems and AI projects to produce efficiency at scale
  • Provide formal performance management support and reviews to all direct on-site India reports and share dotted-line supervisory capacity with US leadership
  • Execute strategic and mission-critical initiatives, technology assessments, architecture decisions, and end-to-end solution delivery in partnership with US IT leadership
  • Develop metrics and dashboards to provide business leadership with meaningful operational and performance metrics and status reports
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies and evaluate their potential impact on the organization's application landscape
  • Manage technical requirements gathering, technical gap analysis, and contribute to backlog grooming
  • Collaborate with other teams in designing, implementing and integrating business applications
  • 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)

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, engineering or a related field
  • 10+ years of experience in an IT Systems Engineering role, with at least some part of that managing small teams (preferably, across Tier)
  • 3+ years experience working with identity management tooling, eg. OKTA, SSO, Google Workspaces, Slack
  • 3+ years experience working with development and automation projects
  • Related experience in architecture, design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems, applications and major SaaS solutions
  • Ability to spearhead and drive work without supervision across functions and collaborate with all levels of users and management, esp. In a remote environment
  • Must be detail oriented, self-organized, be committed to quality and capable of tracking multiple work streams simultaneously
  • Ability to work in a fast-changing, dynamic, and agile environment, including the ability to manage time and maintain an excellent work ethic
  • Candidate must have mentoring and guidance skills to provide oversight and direction to contractors and internal members of the engineering team
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • This is a hybrid position requiring 2 days per week in our Bangalore office and 3 days working remotely
  • This position requires working hours in the IST time zone
  • Relocation assistance will not be provided for this role

Benefits

  • Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package
  • Employee-led remote and flexible working
  • Health benefits
  • Flexible working model supporting in-person and remote work
  • Offices open for those who prefer to work in-person
  • Accommodations and reasonable accommodations for qualified persons with disabilities during recruiting

Job title

Senior Manager, Information Technology

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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