The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below.
Key Responsibilities
This role owns how Samsara consistently hires exceptional talent across EMEA at pace. As Senior Manager, Recruiting – EMEA, you'll lead a team of recruiters covering non-quota-carrying and R&D hiring across the region — spanning Engineering, R&D, Sales Engineering, and G&A/Marketing/Corp — providing both strategic partnership and hands-on execution. Your job is to build a function that delivers exceptional hires today and gets stronger over time: clearer profiles, stronger signals, better candidate experience, and better decisions.
You'll report to the Director of Recruiting, EMEA, and act as the primary recruiting leader for Director + stakeholders within your business areas across the region, bringing the technical credibility and executive presence to be trusted from day one on senior and specialist searches.
This is a hybrid position based in the London area.
Lead a team of recruiters covering non-quota-carrying and R&D hiring across EMEA — including Engineering, R&D, Sales Engineering, and G&A/Marketing/Corp — holding a clear, well-calibrated bar for talent across the team.
Coach and develop recruiters, helping them grow from strong execution into independent ownership: planning searches, driving reqs to close, and holding stakeholder trust
Own the recruiting relationship with Director + engineering and business stakeholders across EMEA, building deep enough business and technical context to be a credible, consultative partner rather than an order-taker.
Combine strategic partnership with senior stakeholders and direct hands-on execution on the most complex or specialist searches.
Bring data-driven rigor to diagnosing and fixing recruiting problems: read funnel data, spot contradictions, identify what's broken, and build a practical plan with clear leading and lagging indicators.
Improve signal-to-noise at every stage of the process: sharper role definition, stronger screens, and more consistent interview evaluation and calibration with hiring managers.
Design a research-centric approach to hiring across EMEA: talent mapping, deliberate outreach, and long-term relationship building, adapted to the specific dynamics of European talent markets.
Partner with People Partners and business leaders to learn from great hires and mis-hires, then update profiles, assessment, and closing approaches based on what's learned.
Model Samsara's values: embed inclusivity, long-term vision, and teamwork into all aspects of hiring and leadership.
Requirements
Expert experience in full-cycle recruiting, with credible depth in senior software engineering hiring.
Proven experience of leading and developing recruiting teams across multiple disciplines and locations via both in person and remote leadership.
Demonstrated ability to build trust and executive presence with senior level stakeholders.
Strong bar-setting and coaching skills, with a track record of building recruiters from good execution to sought after talent partners
Comfortable operating across multiple recruiting disciplines simultaneously (technical + Sales Engineering + G&A/Corp), rather than a single specialism.
Benefits & Perks
At Samsara, we build for the people who keep the global economy moving. We want owners, not passengers, which is why our rewards are designed to fuel high-impact builders. Our compensation program delivers above-market total compensation through a combination of base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles) in a high-growth public company. We meaningfully differentiate pay for our top performers, who have the opportunity to earn above-market compensation that can outpace the broader market over time.
Beyond compensation, we provide the foundations that enable long-term success: a flexible, employee-led remote model, a professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, and more. If you’re ready to build for the long term and own the outcome, your journey starts here.
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