Salary Range: 100000 to 140000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

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 it’s the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it’s 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. You're 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 isn't 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 doesn't have a playbook for everything yet. You'll help write it.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Lever and Gem, or a comparable ATS and sourcing stack.

Recruiting experience in ad tech, media, streaming, or data.

You've built or improved a recruiting process before — not just worked inside someone else's.

Employer branding, campus recruiting, or events experience.

You don't need the whole playbook written before you'll move — we're writing ours as we go, and you'll be one of the people writing it.

You don't go quiet on candidates or hiring managers when a search gets hard. That's the opposite of the job.

You don't think of this as staffing — fill the req, collect the fee, move on. We're not a “get the job done and get out” shop; we're building a company.

You’re not a recluse. We work in-office globally.

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.

Samba may collect personal information directly from you, as a job applicant, Samba may also receive personal information from third parties, for example, in connection with a background, employment or reference check, in accordance with the applicable law. For further details, please see Samba's Applicant Privacy Policy. For residents of the EU , Samba Inc. is the data controller.

About the company

Samba TV collects and analyzes TV viewing data to help advertisers, broadcasters, and content creators understand what people watch. It embeds its technology in about 35 million smart TVs across 20 brands, creating a large viewership database and a household identity graph. The system works by using a proprietary multi-source panel from participating TVs to gather viewing activity, then turning that data into insights and analytics that clients can use to plan ads, optimize content, and measure performance. What sets Samba TV apart is the size and scope of its data: it claims the largest end-to-end viewership dataset and identity graph in the industry, with a panel hundreds of times larger than typical measurements and broad brand partnerships, while offering privacy controls for viewers who opt in or out. The company aims to provide data-driven, actionable insights to improve advertising effectiveness and content delivery across the global smart TV market.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$75.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2008

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

Cint expanded Samba-powered linear measurement into eight markets on August 28, 2026.
Samba secured up to $60 million venture debt, funding acquisitions and AI products.
TiVo, Google, and MediaTek partnerships broaden distribution and prove buyer demand.

What critics are saying

DellaSalla v. Samba TV survived dismissal on April 22, 2026, exposing discovery risk.
Sony TV owners dismissed July 23, 2026, but privacy allegations still scar trust.
Google, The Trade Desk, and walled gardens can commoditize Samba's identity graph.

What makes Samba TV unique

Samba owns deterministic viewing data from tens of millions of TVs across 50 countries.
Project Gravity, launched May 2026, activates first-party data across 40+ ad platforms.
Bestever AI acquisition on June 22, 2026 adds agentic advertising product talent.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours
Remote Work Options
Professional Development Budget
Mental Health Support
Company Equity
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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth

-1%

Cint

Aug 28th, 2026

From exposure to attitude: Closing the loop on global TV campaign measurement.

From exposure to attitude: Closing the loop on global TV campaign measurement. August 28, 2026 Bringing digital-level precision to international linear buys. Today's advertisers are operating in an ever evolving cross-platform media landscape where channels such as linear TV and digital have come to demand equal amounts of consideration. From a measurement perspective, linear TV has historically lacked the precision and validation that is possible for digital media campaigns, especially in global markets. To help bridge that gap and provide marketers with the same in-flight, trustworthy insights to be expected from digital campaigns, Cint has expanded its ongoing strategic partnership with Samba, a global leader in media intelligence. By extending Lucid Measurement's linear TV capabilities into major international markets, advertisers can now measure non-US linear TV campaigns in the same real-time environment as digital and with comparable levels of granularity, such as performance at the network, ad length, and daypart levels. By connecting Samba's deterministic TV exposure data with survey respondents in Cint's global research marketplace, Lucid Measurement enables advertisers to understand how linear TV exposure is impacting key brand metrics while campaigns are still in flight. To discover more about what the partnership means for advertisers, brands, and marketers, Cint spoke with Kathryn Failon, VP of Measurement at Cint. Breaking down measurement silos to prove cross-channel ROI. Anyone working at a media agency or in a brand marketing role knows that the pressure to prove the return on investment (ROI) of cross-channel media buys is constant. However, when executing campaigns across international markets, linear TV has historically remained a disconnected channel. While digital platforms offer immediate feedback loops, linear TV buyers across regions like Europe, North America, and APAC have traditionally relied on fragmented datasets: Exposure metrics confirmed that an ad ran on a screen, but provided no insight into viewer perception. Attitudinal metrics were collected separately weeks later, frequently detached from confirmed exposure data. When exposure data and consumer sentiment live in silos, media teams are left guessing about true campaign efficacy. To close the loop for upper-funnel investments, measurement must integrate confirmed physical ad exposure with verified human sentiment in real time. Cint's expanded partnership with Samba helps advertisers measure brand lift across linear TV, streaming, and digital channels through a single measurement platform, making it easier to compare performance across advertising channels and make more informed decisions throughout the campaign lifecycle. "Advertisers everywhere need trusted, timely data to understand how their investments are shaping consumer perceptions," says Failon. "By expanding our partnership with Samba, we are helping global advertisers better understand the impact of cross-platform campaigns that include linear TV, streaming, and digital. With Lucid Measurement, brands can see what is driving lift while campaigns are still live and use those insights to make smarter optimization decisions." "By expanding our partnership with Samba, we are helping global advertisers better understand the impact of cross-platform campaigns that include linear TV, streaming, and digital." Kathryn Failon VP of Measurement, Cint Expanding in-flight measurement to eight key international markets. To solve this cross-platform challenge, Cint has expanded its strategic partnership with Samba TV to extend Lucid Measurement's linear TV capabilities across eight key international markets: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. As the foundation for continuous measurement, Cint combines Samba TV's deterministic TV exposure data with real respondents across Cint's global research marketplace. This integration empowers brand marketers and media agencies to measure linear TV buys with the same level of sophistication in which campaigns are planned, targeted, and activated. Failon adds, "Cint is a global company with measurement reach in 35 markets. "Expanding access to cross-platform measurement is just the first of many steps we are taking to provide advertisers with measurement that covers the full scope of their media buys, regardless of where in the world they are running." Mapping exposure directly to consumer attitude. The expanded integration creates a continuous feedback loop by mapping deterministic exposure directly to consumer sentiment: * Deterministic exposure capture: Samba TV's AI-powered technology identifies when household screens are exposed to linear ad campaigns. * Real-human matching: Cint matches these screen exposure signals to verified, consenting panel respondents within its global research ecosystem. * In-flight brand lift: Exposed and control groups complete surveys to measure continuous shifts in core metrics, including awareness, consideration, and purchase intent. "The goal is to provide advertisers with a single, comparable source of truth for their cross-platform media buys," says Failon. "By mapping Samba's TV exposure data to our respondent universe, we can capture insights on the impact of linear TV right alongside digital media, allowing you to compare audiences, creatives, or exposure frequency across both platforms and make informed decisions about what is best for your campaign." Start replacing post-campaign autopsies with real-time intelligence. With Lucid Measurement, advertisers can run in-flight brand lift studies across 35 international markets in 20 languages, with initial study results available in an average of just three days. Clear, intuitive reporting dashboards eliminate guesswork, allowing media planners and agency leads to catch performance trends early and optimize creative, cadence, or target allocations while campaigns are still in flight. Want to know more about how its linear measurement expansion could benefit your campaigns? Get in touch with Cint today. * August 28, 2026 From exposure to attitude: Closing the loop on global TV campaign measurement Learn how Cint's expanded partnership with Samba TV brings real-time brand lift measurement to global linear TV campaigns. Insights * August 20, 2026 Inside the Cint Exchange: Why a marketplace beats a single-source panel Explore why single-source sampling limits your reach (and how marketplaces unlock growth) Insights * August 14, 2026 How AI-moderated interviews narrow the gap between qualitative depth and quantitative scale Get the lowdown on its recent Insight Platforms webinar. Insights

GlobeNewswire

Jun 22nd, 2026

Samba acquires Bestever AI to power agentic advertising with 1.5B user profiles

Samba, a global media intelligence company, has acquired Bestever AI, a generative AI platform for advertisers and marketers. Bestever founder Apoorva Govind joins Samba as Director of Product to lead AI product strategy, alongside the full Bestever team. Samba aims to build autonomous advertising agents powered by first-party data from 1.5 billion opted-in users globally. The company provides deterministic signals tracking how people stream video, watch TV and behave across screens. This foundation enables agents to autonomously research brands, build targeting strategies and deliver real-time analytics. Govind founded Bestever AI in 2023 after leadership roles at Apple and Uber. The startup was backed by Audacious Ventures, Offline Ventures, A16Z and F7 Ventures. The acquisition accelerates Samba's development of autonomous, data-driven advertising capabilities.

Alabama Business Reporter

Jun 22nd, 2026

Samba acquires Bestever AI to accelerate the future of agentic advertising.

Samba acquires Bestever AI to accelerate the future of agentic advertising. SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Samba, the global leader in media intelligence, today announced the acquisition of Bestever AI, a GenAI platform built for advertisers and marketers. Bestever founder and CEO Apoorva Govind joins Samba as Director of Product, leading the company's AI product strategy, along with the full Bestever team. The future of advertising is not just automated, it is autonomous. And it will be guided by real data and real performance signals. While the industry rushes toward workflow automation and black-box engines, Samba is making a contrarian bet: an AI agent is only as intelligent as the data that fuels it. Generic, model-driven strategies cannot match agents built on first-party data at scale. Samba has spent years building exactly that foundation. With deterministic signals from 1.5 billion opted-in users globally, the company has an unparalleled, objective view of how real people stream video, watch linear TV, research topics online, and behave across every screen, insights even the largest walled gardens do not have. Samba is now deploying those signals to power a true agentic engine for the entire media ecosystem, one that autonomously researches each brand, builds a custom targeting strategy, and delivers actionable analytics in real time to optimize campaigns. What used to require entire data science teams and months of work can now happen in minutes. "The next era of advertising belongs to agents that can act on real intelligence to rapidly expand the audiences we can reach, with more personalization, and across many more platforms all at once. Samba has built the platform and the most accurate, deterministic data asset in the industry for over a billion user profiles. Apoorva and her team will focus on our agentic solutions which leverage that media intelligence, leaning into her rare combination of technical depth and product vision," said Ashwin Navin, Co-founder and CEO of Samba. Govind founded Bestever AI in 2023 after more than a decade in engineering leadership at Apple and Uber. Seeing the persistent gap between raw performance signals and creative that drives consumer decisions, she built Bestever AI to close it with technology that autonomously researches brands, develops competitive strategy, and generates ad creative driven by real performance data. The company was backed by Audacious Ventures, Offline Ventures, A16Z, and F7 Ventures. "Samba has something most AI companies can only dream about: a truly independent, deterministic view of how audiences behave across every screen, at massive scale. That is the foundation that makes agentic advertising actually work, and joining Samba means the opportunity to build with the best media intelligence in the industry," said Apoorva Govind, Director of Product at Samba. Samba's platform unifies TV, web, and other media signals into a single view of the consumer journey, enabling advertisers and media companies to plan smarter, measure more accurately, and target audiences on every screen. The Bestever AI acquisition accelerates Samba's agentic roadmap, bringing the company closer to its vision of autonomous, data-driven advertising built on intelligence the rest of the industry cannot replicate. About Samba Samba combines agentic AI, 907+ billion independent monthly data signals, and actionable analytics to take the guesswork out of media for the fastest growing brands in the world. Alabama Business Reporter call it Media Intelligence: going beyond demographics to understand what your customers are watching, reading, thinking and feeling across every screen, and then adjust your campaign to convert and win attention in real time. With over 1.5 billion opted-in user profiles, you have access to signals no one else has to hyper-target audiences, optimize outcomes, and convert purchase intent across every screen globally. Stop Projecting. Start Predicting with Samba. For more information, visit samba.com. Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. Alabama Business Reporter do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

TripleLift

May 28th, 2026

TripleLift partners with leading measurement providers to elevate advertiser success.

TripleLift partners with leading measurement providers to elevate advertiser success. May 28, 2026 In today's complex advertising landscape, media metrics only tell a portion of the story. Campaign measurement must evolve to keep pace with changing consumer behaviors and the advanced technologies advertisers use to reach them. The true measure of success lies in whether the ad effectively influenced brand perception, drove sales, or achieved a meaningful social impact. At TripleLift, Triple Lift, Inc. believe that creative earns attention, intelligence guides decisions, and orchestration drives outcomes. Its guiding principle is that every impression has the potential to drive impact as long as creative, data, supply and measurement are working together, not in silo. To live up to that philosophy, Triple Lift, Inc. is thrilled to announce a significant expansion in its measurement capabilities through five new strategic partnerships with Attain, Circana, DISQO, Samba TV, and The GoodNet. By integrating these industry leaders into TL Spark, its coordinated intelligence layer, Triple Lift, Inc. is giving advertisers the tools to quantify performance across the open internet, retail media, and CTV with great precision. In addition, advertisers gain more robust and diverse methodologies to measure campaign impact across the funnel, from brand lift to closed-loop sales and social responsibility metrics. These new additions join its existing suite of partners including Cint, Happydemics, Adelaide, Scope3, iSpot, Comscore and InMarket, to create a holistic measurement suite. Here's a closer look at its new partners and the specific value they bring to campaigns: Attain (Live Transaction Data & Outcomes Measurement): Attain is the most trusted source of permissioned, real-time purchase data in the US, capturing live transaction signals from 14M+ opted-in consumers across 10,000+ merchants and $700B in annual spend. That always-on data layer empowers CPG, QSR, Retail, FinServ, and Entertainment advertisers to activate high-intent audiences, optimize in-flight, and measure true incremental sales - online, in-store, all in real time. Circana (Sales Lift): Circana provides closed-loop sales lift measurement by linking ad exposure to in-store and online purchases across a broad retailer network. Especially impactful for CPG advertisers, Circana enables brands to quantify the direct impact of media on real-world sales. DISQO (Outcomes Lift): DISQO delivers brand and outcomes lift measurement such as search impact (across platforms like Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.), site visitation, and ecommerce behavior. This is particularly valuable for environments such as CTV, where lower-funnel outcomes can be more difficult to track. Samba TV (Tune-In Measurement): Samba TV enables advanced tune-in measurement, helping entertainment advertisers accurately track viewership and engagement across platforms and devices. The GoodNet (Ethical Media Index): The GoodNet's proprietary GoodIQ platform enables advertisers to achieve improved performance at scale, whilst measuring and improving the social and environmental impact of their media investments. TL Spark empowers TripleLift to orchestrate creative, supply, audience, and measurement as one coordinated system. Its expanded measurement ecosystem allows for detailed understanding of each campaign's value, including how different creative versions perform and their direct impact on business results. In a landscape where every dollar is scrutinized, guessing isn't an option. By expanding its measurement tools, TripleLift strengthens the role of the Creative SSP, helping advertisers engineer outcomes while enabling publishers to maximize impression value and maintain high-quality consumer experiences.

Associated Press

May 21st, 2026

Samba TV launches Project Gravity data platform for AI-driven ad targeting

Samba TV has launched Project Gravity, an independent data activation platform designed for AI-driven advertising. The platform matches advertisers' first-party data against Samba's Identity Graph and integrates with over 40 major advertising platforms, including DSPs, SSPs and walled gardens. Project Gravity enables real-time identity resolution and AI-native audience expansion, built specifically for agentic advertising where AI agents make thousands of buying decisions per second. The platform offers deterministic audience activation across major platforms including Google DV360, The Trade Desk, Meta and Amazon. Over a dozen agencies and data owners, including Acxiom, are already using the platform. Samba TV developed the solution internally after failing to find existing technology capable of real-time, global data onboarding with high identity resolution accuracy.

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