People Partner

About the role

At Samsara, our People Partners contribute to organizational strategy and meaningfully impact business outcomes. We are looking for a People Partner to support key segments across our Go-To-Market (GTM) and Sales teams. Reporting directly to the Director, GTM People Partners, you will work alongside executive leadership, facilitate strategy, and solve high-impact, real-world business challenges.

We're moving fast, reinventing playbooks, and actively embracing the new era of AI and modern organizational dynamics. We operate with a creative, problem-solving mindset that prioritizes common-sense solutions and business-focused metrics. If you thrive on building trusted leader relationships, tackling complex talent challenges, and driving measurable impact, this is the team for you.

In this role, you will:

• Act as a Strategic Thought Partner: Establish yourself as an indispensable, embedded partner to sales and GTM leaders by aligning talent priorities directly with business outcomes.
• Drive Creative Problem-Solving: Acts with urgency, proactively diagnosing team, manager, and organizational needs, and recommends business aligned solutions.
• Execute Core Talent Programs: Drive continuous talent management, compensation/reward programs, and retention strategies designed to lower attrition in high-volume GTM environments.
• Collaborate Across the People Function: Partner seamlessly with Regional People Partners, Program Managers, and COEs to build, scale, and seamlessly deliver strategic people solutions.
• Champion Samsara's Culture: 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.
• Connect in Person: Travel roughly once per quarter for leadership offsites, business strategy meetings, and key team gatherings.

Minimum requirements for the role

• 3+ years of relevant experience in People Operations.
• Experience partnering with go-to-market teams (sales, CS or similar), or broader People experience (programs, talent, etc.).
• Learning oriented, with a record of picking up work you haven't done before and experience using AI tools to improve how you work.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, iterative environment, open to changes in focus and direction.
• Strong analytical capability, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to plan, scope and carry projects from design through delivery.
• Experience using data to identify insights and inform business decisions.
• Effective communication, consulting, coaching and facilitation skills.