Senior Public Policy and Government Affairs Manager

🕒 August 26

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $109.5k - $211.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

Logistics • Construction • Healthcare

Samsara is a technology company that provides a comprehensive operations platform aimed at improving the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of organizations. Their solutions include video-based safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, workforce applications, and site visibility. Samsara serves a wide range of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and government. The platform connects people, systems, and data, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions. Samsara's Connected Operations technology helps complex organizations operate more effectively by offering real-time GPS, proactive alerts, compliance training, and asset tracking.

📋 Description

• Represent Samsara directly before Congress • Build and maintain relationships with members of Congress, committee staff, and selected federal agency officials • Identify and generate formula funding, grant, appropriations-language, and other programmatic opportunities for Public Sector Sales • Maintain a prioritized opportunities list with recommendations based on market opportunity, feasibility, timing, and pursuit cost • Partner with Public Sector Sales by providing legislative and funding intelligence for pipeline and go-to-market strategy • Monitor developments across Congress, agencies, and target states • Help shape Samsara’s broader policy strategy and priorities • Manage outside consultants, including evaluating proposals and recommendations • Draft and advance legislative language, funding tasks, letters, testimony, and other government-affairs materials • Collaborate with Legal, Marketing, and Product to align advocacy with Samsara’s technology, roadmap, and business direction • Report to the Head of Global Public Policy & Government Affairs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • 8+ years of relevant experience in public policy, government affairs, or government • Strong preference for appropriations-focused experience on Capitol Hill or at a federal agency • In-house government affairs experience at a company, ideally coordinating with a sales, GTM, or revenue organization • Deep, first-hand understanding of the federal appropriations and budget process • Demonstrated experience translating the appropriations process into concrete funding outcomes • Track record of proactively generating opportunities • Established relationships with congressional offices, committee staff, and/or federal agency officials relevant to transportation, infrastructure, or technology funding • Demonstrated judgment in evaluating policy or funding opportunities • Experience working with outside consultants and critically assessing their strategy and pitches • Ability to persuasively and diplomatically advocate complex policy positions • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills • Ability to summarize policy issues and advocacy points concisely • Experience managing multiple high-priority projects simultaneously in a fast-moving environment • Experience with DOT, surface transportation, infrastructure, public safety funding programs, or state/local technology procurement processes is ideal • Ability to translate government-to-business and business-to-government issues • Ability to identify potential sales-enablement opportunities and challenges • Familiarity with physical operations, transportation, or public sector technology landscapes

🏖️ 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 • Above-market total compensation opportunities