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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. This role will help make systems and processes more efficient, reduce manual, low-value work, and enable the recruiting organization to run better.

As a Recruiting Program Manager, you will own the vision for Samsara’s talent acquisition administrative systems. You will be responsible for becoming our business partners' go-to subject matter expert, initiating and delivering complex projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background with hands-on experience in Recruiting Technology. We collaborate with Legal and Operations teams and cross-functional partners within Samsara on strategic projects.

This position can be based remotely within North America.

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 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 encouraging rapid career development and countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper-growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: Our vision 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-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.

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In this role, you will:

• Design system solutions: Optimize Samara Recruiting’s systems and integrations with other point solutions and key business systems.
• Manage complex projects and vendor relationships: Identify and collaborate effectively with key ICs and leaders across Legal, IT, Compensation, People Operations, Finance & Strategy, and more to solve critical business challenges through implementing best practice solutions, which can include process change, configuration, and/or customization. Communicate regularly on program/project plans, progress, blockers, and risks to cross-functional stakeholders, sponsors, and vendors.
• Provide day-to-day administration and maintenance of critical business systems: Coordinate feature launch activity, respond to issues and incidents, and provide day-to-day administration of the critical business systems that drive our global recruiting operations. Configure fields, workflows, roles/permissions, and reports.
• 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:

• 5+ years experience in recruiting technology and system administration; 2+ years of Program Management experience
• Previous enterprise ATS and HRIS experience; Greenhouse required, Workday preferred
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally to understand business requirements and translate them to effective use of applications
• Excellent 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 leadership and internal stakeholders
• Experience designing test plans and launching projects effectively on tight timelines

An ideal candidate also has:

• Prior hands-on experience working in and configuring complex People Technology systems
• Experience creating business cases for technology and system design, completing RFPs (request for proposal), implementing new technology vendors
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.
• Experience with ATS integrations and Project Management tools

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