Academy - Senior Product Designer @ Samsara (Remote, Contract)

Client: Academy

Location: Remote

Contract: Freelance

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Product Designer at Samsara, you will provide critical design expertise and execution for strategic initiatives, delivering end-to-end experiences that impact customers and support key business objectives. You’ll own design for a specific product area with a current focus on AI and agentic workflows and/or design systems supporting a major rebrand. You’ll collaborate closely with Product and Engineering, work directly with customers, and be expected to influence strategy and ship well-crafted designs that make operations more efficient, safe, and sustainable.

REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of product design experience designing UX/UI for web and mobile applications
• Strong interaction and visual design skills
• Portfolio and/or case studies showcasing design craft and ability to solve user problems with quantified impact — required to be considered
• Demonstrated proficiency with AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make)
• Experience prototyping in real codebases; comfort working in GitHub
• Proven experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills

IDEAL CANDIDATE

• High craft combined with pragmatic, proactive execution
• Comfortable with 0-1 and early-stage work where the path isn’t fully defined
• Self-directed and resourceful — can identify what needs to happen and move it forward without heavy structure
• Refined taste, strong product instincts, and a bias toward solving real customer problems elegantly
• Curious, hands-on, and resilient — able to zoom out strategically and zoom in to deliver polished work

CONTRACT DETAILS

Duration: 6 months (with conversion potential if based in a country where Samsara has legal entities)

Hours: 40 hrs/week, no overtime

Location: Fully remote

Rate: $90-$110/hr

Start: ASAP

WORK LOCATION & ELIGIBILITY

This is a fully remote contract role. Candidates must be based in a country where Samsara has an established legal entity. Eligible countries are:

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Netherlands
• Poland
• India
• Taiwan
• Mexico

All offers are contingent upon an individual’s ability to secure and maintain the legal right to work in their respective country.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.