About the role:
Samsara is looking for a Finance and Strategy Manager to partner with our Product teams. New products and features are key drivers to the growth of our business, ensuring we create value for our customers and continue to innovate. You will partner with business leaders to set and achieve corporate goals. You will drive quantitative and qualitative research to inform strategic choices and identify optimization opportunities. You will support corporate financial goals by driving forecast models and providing accurate guidance to our leaders and investors.
This role is open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin metro, California, Chicago metro, Connecticut, Dallas metro, Denver metro, Houston metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, and Washington DC metro.
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, and 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-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role, you will:
- Partner closely with leaders across our R&D teams to drive strategic decision-making, investment prioritization, and long-range planning
- Build and monitor KPIs to inspect business health and performance
- Analyze financial results, prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting, and support operating review meetings with VPs and EVPs of Engineering, Product Management, and Finance
- Build scalable processes and mechanisms to enhance financial visibility, control, and planning effectiveness that support the next wave of Samsara’s growth
- Support new product introduction initiatives by building long-range financial planning models and supporting go-to-market and pricing strategies
- 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:
- 4+ years of experience in Corporate Finance and/or Investment Banking
- Strong financial modeling and analysis capabilities
- Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally
- Strong communication and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to senior management
- Bachelor’s degree from a 4-year institution
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience partnering with R&D teams or managing product lines or business unit financials
- Willingness and ability to build new financial processes and mechanisms from scratch
- Experience working with large data sets; Tableau knowledge a plus
- Ability to thrive in a fast-growing environment with high degrees of ambiguity
