Senior Talent Acquisition Partner EMEA

About the role:

Founded in San Francisco six years ago, we’ve come a long way since then. We now employ over 1,600 people globally and have over a million devices out in the field. Last year, we hit a valuation of $5.4 billion during our series F funding round. 

We're one of the fastest growing companies to come out of Silicon Valley in recent years, too - we've hit $300m ARR faster than Slack, Workday, Snowflake and Twilio. Our products offer solutions to real world problems, allowing us to tap into markets that simply didn't exist a few years ago.

Recent awards we’ve won include: 

• #2 in the Financial Times’ Fastest Growing Companies in Americas list 
• #19 in the Forbes Cloud 100 
• Top 4 place in LinkedIn’s Top Startups awards for 2 years running 

Even better, we’re only just getting started here in Europe. There is considerable demand for our services and we have an aggressive hiring plan in place.

This role will be a key figure in the EMEA region. VPs and Directors will value your input, and you’ll be encouraged to find solutions to problems we’re not aware of yet. Recruiters at Samsara are valued team members who continuously raise the bar - there’s ample room to make this role your own. 

In this role, you will: 

• Manage Full-Cycle Sales Recruiting: Create and implement strategies to solve problems and build diverse pipelines across Samsara’s sales and corporate teams through sourcing, referrals, research, events, and social media. Find and engage passive candidates through creative sourcing techniques and help them envision life at Samsara. Effectively manage multiple requisitions and candidates during high volume periods while creating and owning a flawlessly positive candidate experience. 
• Be a Talent Advisor: Partner closely with hiring managers to deeply understand their teams and goals. Organize and facilitate interview debriefs and drive offer approval, extension and negotiation. Identify closing strategies for offers and proactively provide candidates with the appropriate information to help make their decision as easy as possible. Identify new ways to build awareness of Samsara in new hiring markets.
• Influence with Data:  Independently address and unblock data analysis challenges. Extract and synthesize insights. Identify headwinds and tailwinds with a search. 
• Communicate Effectively - Tailor written and verbal communication to different audiences and situations.
• Manage Stakeholders - Be seen as a trusted partner by other key cross-functional points of contact. Able to identify friction points, set appropriate expectations, and drive initiatives to overcome obstacles with a search. 
• Be a DEI Advocate - Develop and implement sourcing strategies and marketing programs to identify top talent and build diverse candidate pipelines. Advise on structured interview processes that mitigates unconscious bias. Coach leaders and interviewers in inclusive interviewing best practices and objective feedback. 
• Be Brilliant at the Basics: Track pipeline data and provide relevant and consistent updates to hiring managers. Maintain high attention to detail when entering data into Greenhouse (ATS) and other recruiting tools.
• Mentor Others: Assist and mentor Recruiting Coordinators, Sourcers, and Recruiters. Help onboard new recruiting team members. Regularly review and provide feedback on other team members’ work. 
• Be a Cultural Champion: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 this role:

• Proven strategic sourcer and closer
• Team player with an eye for talent who loves connecting people and opportunity
• Able to confidently represent Samsara with professionalism both internally and externally
• Target driven, detail oriented, approachable and able to bring up others around you
• 5+ years of recruiting experience in a fast-paced and hyper-growth environment
• Ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team 

An ideal candidate would also have:

• You will be comfortable hiring across all vacancies, but will have a flair for sourcing high performing Sales specialists 
• Previous startup / scaleup experience preferred
• Business fluent in English, plus either Dutch, German or French is a bonus

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