About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Skills
- Sales Engineering recruiting
- G&A recruiting
- Core engineering hiring
- Director+ level search
- EMEA-scale recruiting leadership
- Multi-country/market recruiting leadership
Location
- London area
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £104,400—£130,500 GBP
Benefits
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
- Above-market total compensation
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Equity (for eligible roles)
- Flexible working model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Parental leave plans
About the Company
- Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations.
- At Samsara, we are helping improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the physical operations that power our global economy.
- Representing more than 40% of global GDP, these industries are the infrastructure of our planet, including agriculture, construction, field services, transportation, and manufacturing — and we are excited to help digitally transform their operations at scale.
- Working at Samsara means you’ll help define the future of physical operations and be on a team that’s shaping an exciting array of product solutions, including Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, and Equipment Monitoring.
- As part of a recently public company, you’ll have the autonomy and support to make an impact as we build for the long term.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.
- Samsara is an inclusive work environment, and we are committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities.
