Talent Acquisition Partner

Samba; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness offerings

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Samba is seeking a results-driven Senior Recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for Corporate and Technology roles across high-growth media tech environments. You will source, screen, and close candidates, partnering with hiring managers to define roles and interview loops.

You will build pipelines, craft diverse slates, and manage the candidate experience from first contact to offer. You’ll also attend industry events to strengthen Samba's employer brand and help write our evolving recruiting

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of full-cycle in-house recruiting.
• Fluent with an ATS and building AI into recruiting workflows.
• Experience recruiting in ad tech, media, streaming, or data.
• Ability to define roles with hiring managers and set interview loops.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting across Corporate and Technology roles.
• Define roles with hiring managers and build interview loops.
• Source and build your own pipeline; create diverse slates.
• Own the candidate experience from first contact to close.
• Represent Samba at events to strengthen employer brand.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing strategy

Stakeholder mgmt

Employer branding

Networking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Lever

Gem

ATS

Job description

Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about - in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built. The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions. We think its the most interesting data asset on the planet, because its the most culturally relevant.

Advertising is a trillion-dollar global industry split into silos that don't talk to each other, and every platform grades its own homework. Samba is the independent layer in the middle. Over the last two decades we built our own technology to understand media at scale, across streaming, linear and the web, in 40+ countries. The Samba Knowledge Graph ties it together: one connected map of content, audiences and outcomes that the industry has always dreamed about. As media workflows go agentic, the quality of decisions is only as good as the data behind it. We built the tools to put it to work. Join us this year and help build the technology that the industry runs on.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Manage full-cycle recruiting responsibilities across Corporate roles (G&A, Marketing, etc) and Technology roles (Engineering/Product): Source. Screen. Close.
• Sit with hiring managers before the req opens - define the role, build the scorecard, set the interview loop.
• Source. Build your own pipeline instead of waiting for it to land in your inbox.
• Put together a diverse, qualified slate every time. We believe in the Rooney Rule and believe the strongest candidate will win on merit.
• Own the candidate experience start to finish - prep, communication, timelines, feedback. Youre often the first real conversation someone has with Samba.
• Get out from behind the desk. Show up at industry events, build relationships before you need them, and put a face on our employer brand.
• Keep the ATS clean - accurate stages, notes, dispositions. Bad pipeline data makes everyone downstream make bad calls.
• Familiarity with AI to create leverage for your efforts: : sourcing, resume screening against a rubric, outreach drafts, market research, interview kits, reporting.
• Own your funnel numbers - time to hire, source effectiveness, pass-through rates, offer-accept - and come with a point of view on what to fix.

WHO YOU ARE

• 3-5 years of full-cycle in-house recruiting
• Process-oriented. You work from a plan, you document, and you never let a candidate or hiring manager go quiet on you.
• Fluent with an ATS and already building AI into your recruiting work - or fast enough to pick it up and run with it. Our Talent team builds its sourcing searches, screening rubrics, kickoff docs, and reporting this way, and you will too.
• Genuinely into the market - you want to be at the events, meeting people, and stacking a network you can pull from later.
• Direct. You can tell a hiring manager the pipeline isnt there yet, and you show up with a plan when you say it.
• Organized under load - multiple open reqs, shifting priorities, and you still hit your dates.
• Comfortable moving fast in a company that doesnt have a playbook for everything yet. Youll help write it.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• Lever and Gem, or a comparable ATS and sourcing stack.
• Recruiting experience in ad tech, media, streaming, or data.
• Youve built or improved a recruiting process before - not just worked inside someone elses.
• Employer branding, campus recruiting, or events experience.
• You dont need the whole playbook written before youll move - were writing ours as we go, and youll be one of the people writing it.
• You dont go quiet on candidates or hiring managers when a search gets hard. Thats the opposite of the job.
• You dont think of this as staffing - fill the req, collect the fee, move on. Weares not a "get the job done and get out" shop; weares building a company.
• Youre not a recluse. We work in-office globally.

$100,000 - $140,000 a year

• Samba TV expects to offer a base salary between $100,000 - $140,000 USD per year for roles to be performed in New York or California; actual base salary offered will depend on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba TV’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives and long-term incentives.
• In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.

Samba is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.We strive to empower connection with one another, reflect the communities we serve, and tackle meaningful projects that make a real impact.

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