Senior People Partner

Summary

Join Samsara as a Senior People Partner for R&D, a strategic role driving innovation and scaling high-performing teams across Product, Platform, and AI engineering organizations. You will architect small, autonomous, high-impact teams, balancing agility with operational excellence, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership. This senior individual contributor role offers a clear path to leading the entire R&D People Partner function. You'll leverage people analytics to inform org design and drive a culture of continuous feedback and radical candor. The position is remote and open to US-based candidates. Samsara offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Requirements

• Proven Experience Driving Fast-Paced Innovation: You’ve designed org structures that enable teams to ship quickly while maintaining execution discipline
• 8+ years of People Partner experience, with at least 5 years supporting R&D, product, AI, or engineering teams at a high-growth, fast paced tech company
• Influence & Communication: You are a trusted advisor to executives and know how to navigate complex org dynamics while driving decisive action
• Data-Driven Decision Making: You can translate people metrics into strategic insights that directly impact speed, execution, and long-term team success
• Ownership Mentality: You operate with a founder mindset, embracing ambiguity and solving problems proactively

Responsibilities

• Org Design for Speed & Impact Architect small, high-performing teams that can move fast and iterate quickly while maintaining operational excellence
• Help leaders design orgs that scale without bureaucracy , ensuring the company remains as agile as a startup even as we grow
• Identify bottlenecks, silos, and inefficiencies , restructuring teams proactively
• Strategic Advisory at the Highest Level Act as the most senior individual contributor in the North America R&D People Partner function , reporting directly to senior leadership with a path to owning the R&D People Partner org
• Work alongside senior engineering, AI, and platform leaders to anticipate talent needs and build an org structure that enables sustained innovation
• Be a key voice in shaping the talent strategy for next-gen AI, platform, and product engineering teams
• High-Performance Culture & Leadership Development Ensure teams maintain an innovation mindset while reinforcing best practices for execution, delivery, and accountability
• Implement scalable leadership development program s, ensuring that Samsara continues to produce world-class product and engineering leaders from within
• Work with senior leaders to drive a culture of continuous feedback and radical candor , enabling top talent to reach their full potential
• Data-Driven Decision Making Leverage people analytics to inform org design, team health, and leadership effectiveness
• Provide insights that help leaders make proactive decisions on hiring, retention, and performance before challenges emerge
• Drive continuous improvement by measuring how team structure impacts speed, execution, and innovation cycles
• 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

Benefits

Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more