The Senior Escalations Program Manager is the single-threaded owner for our most complex customer escalations (~70% of time). They coordinate cross-functional resources, manage executive-level communications, and ensure rapid, high-quality resolution. Leveraging insights from these cases, the role spends the remaining 30 % leading projects that eliminate root causes, streamline workflows, and scale customer-facing processes.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

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.

In this role, you will:

  • Own P1/P2 escalations end-to-end—triage, action plans, and real-time status updates to customers and execs.
  • Deliver crisp post-mortems and executive summaries; track MTTR, CSAT, and follow-up actions.
  • Analyze escalation themes, quantify business impact, and prioritize process-improvement opportunities.
    Lead cross-functional initiatives to standardize escalation workflows, SLAs, tools, and dashboards.
  • Coach frontline teams on prevention and de-escalation best practices.
    Drive stakeholder alignment and accountability for commitments arising from escalations.

Success Metrics:

  • Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) for high-severity cases.
  • Post-escalation CSAT/NPS.
  • % systemic issues permanently fixed within 90 days.
  • SLA adherence and audit-ready documentation.

Minimum requirements for the role:

  • 4+ years in Customer Success, Support Ops, Trust & Safety, or similar, owning high-severity escalations.
  • Track record of leading cross-functional process-improvement projects.
  • Structured problem-solver; data-driven decision-making.
  • Strong program/project management chops (PMP, ITIL, Six Sigma a plus).
  • Executive-level written & verbal communication and stakeholder influence.
  • Bachelor’s in Business, Ops, Engineering, or related field.

An ideal candidate also has:

  • Customer-obsession & empathy.
  • Analytical rigor & storytelling.
  • Conflict resolution & stakeholder management.
  • Bias for action & ownership.
  • Continuous-improvement mindset.

 

The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
$83,002.50$125,550 USD
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