Senior Recruiting Program Manager

About the role:

This position will be part of the Recruiting Operations and Programs team, contributing to Samsara’s growth by supporting teams to attract and hire top talent. We design and lead programs supporting a scalable, standardized, and objective recruiting ecosystem. We aim to optimize the hiring process and ensure our candidate experience is best-in-class.

As a Recruiting Operations Program Manager, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the infrastructure of our recruitment process through thoughtful process and technology enhancements. Engaging directly with the core of our hiring teams—the recruiters and interviewers—you'll have the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic environment that values effective hiring solutions. Our growth pace is steady and purposeful, and we're on the lookout for someone ready to support our mission to attract top-tier talent that will drive our customer-centric objectives forward.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin Metro, Boulder Metro, California, Chicago Metro, Connecticut, Dallas Metro, Denver Metro, Houston Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Seattle Metro, and Washington, D.C.

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-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role, you will: 

• Streamline communication with candidates by coordinating closely with hiring teams to enhance the candidate experience.
• Evaluate and enhance current recruiting workflows for better efficiency. Design new processes and facilitate workshops to drive continuous improvement in recruitment. Utilize technology to simplify and streamline recruitment activities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with departmental leaders to gain a deep understanding of hiring needs. Facilitate regular stakeholder meetings to ensure alignment on recruitment priorities. Collaborate with HR and legal teams to uphold compliance in all recruiting practices.
• Develop and deliver training programs to elevate recruiters' skills, and provide them with resources and tools for efficient hiring processes. Implement a knowledge-sharing platform to facilitate the exchange of best practices among recruiters. Organize regular sessions aimed at skill-building to continuously improve recruitment practices.
• 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 the role:

• 8+ years of total professional experience
• 3+ years of Program Management experience supporting People/HR teams
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally to understand business requirements and translate them to effective use of applications
• Top-notch critical thinking skills with the ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete, manageable components and think through optimal solutions
• Effectively communicate vision, strategy, and statuses of projects to leaders and internal stakeholders
• Experience designing and launching projects successfully on tight timelines
• History of productive collaboration with multiple organizational departments
• Proven experience in leading continuous improvement

An ideal candidate also has:

• Previous success in process optimization within a recruiting environment
• Experience with HR software such as Workday or Greenhouse
• Ability to develop and implement training modules
• Experience managing programs in recruitment operations or talent acquisition