Senior Manager, Finance and Strategy – R&D

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About the role

  • Senior finance and strategy leader guiding R&D planning at Samsara, whose IoT platform improves physical operations. Owning forecasting, cost control, and strategic analysis across engineering and supply chain.

Responsibilities

  • 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, including monthly BvA reviews, quarterly reforecasts, and the annual operating plan across Software, Firmware, Hardware Engineering, Product Management, and Supply Chain Operations
  • Own forecasting and controllership for COGS and Gross Margin, hardware costs, 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

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Corporate Finance, financial planning and analysis, or strategic finance experience
  • 2+ 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
  • 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.)

Benefits

  • Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
  • Ongoing refresh opportunities tied to performance
  • Performance-based bonus/variable pay
  • Equity for eligible roles
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • Parental leave plans

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$118,800 - CA$163,350 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudSQLTableau

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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