Senior Manager, Finance and Strategy

About the role:

Samsara is looking for a Senior Manager, Finance and Strategy, to partner with our Research & Development (R&D) organization. Samsara’s R&D organization creates the industry-leading IoT products and features that power our customer experience. In this role, you will partner with business leaders to set and achieve corporate goals. You will drive quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform strategic judgements and identify optimization opportunities. You will support corporate financial goals by driving forecast models and providing accurate guidance to our leaders and investors. You also will lead our financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes across Samsara’s R&D organization. 

This role can be office-based in our San Francisco office or fully remote.

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:

• Serve as the finance lead for Samsara's R&D organization, partnering directly with C-level leaders on budget trade-offs, headcount decisions, and infrastructure investment
• Own FP&A for R&D and Supply Chain Operations — monthly BvA reviews with VP-level leaders, quarterly reforecasts, and the annual operating plan across Software, Firmware, and Hardware Engineering, Product Management, and Supply Chain Operations
• Own forecasting and controllership across Samsara's largest cost drivers: COGS and Gross Margin, hardware costs (including cash and COGS), employee expenses, total compensation economics, and AI infrastructure spend 
• Build scalable financial processes and use AI tools to automate reporting, accelerate analysis, and deliver real-time visibility to R&D leadership
• Lead, develop, and manage a high-performing team
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 8+ years of experience in Corporate Finance, financial planning and analysis, or strategic finance experience
• 3+ years of People management and development experience
• Strong financial modeling and analysis capabilities
• Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally 
• Strong communication and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to senior management

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience at a high-growth tech company
• Prior partnership with technical leaders
• Ability to lead teams and drive longer-term initiatives while balancing delivering results
• Willingness and ability to build new financial processes and mechanisms
• Ability to thrive in a fast-growing environment with high degrees of ambiguity
• Experience with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)
• Familiarity with AWS cloud cost management
• Expertise working with systems (e.g., Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, Salesforce, Workday, etc.)
• Experience working with large datasets and technical data management and analysis skills (e.g., SQL, Tableau, etc.)